Boys on the Side

Head to Head: Louise Glück or Mary-Louise Parker? Aaron gives James quotes and he has to decide who said it. The hosts also share some fabulous Ouisie stories throughout.

As always, please consider supporting authors and indie bookstores. We recommend Loyalty Books, a black-owned DC-based bookstore. You can shop their store here.

Dear Mister You, Mary-Louise Parker's book of poems, was reviewed by The New York Times. 

Boys on the Side was the last film Herbert Ross directed. It was written by Don Roos and released in 1995. Bonnie Raitt's cover of Roy Orbison's "You Got It" peaked at # 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. You can watch Whoopi and Mary-Louise Park sing "You Got It" to each other in the movie here.

 "I want / my heart back/ I want to feel everything again" is from Glück's "Blue Rotunda" from Averno.

"I improvised; I never remembered" is from "Mother and Child" in Glück's The Seven Ages.

Louise Glück's poem "The Untrustworthy Speaker" can be read online here, or in her book Ararat. 

You can watch Mary-Louise accept her 2nd Tony Award here.

Louise Glück's Nobel speech drew well-deserved criticism, including from Matt Sandler, who wrote an essay published and readable here on Verso Books's blog.

The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is the country's oldest continuous writers' conference, began in 1926. 

You can see Kelly Clarkson cover Blondie's "Heart of Glass" here. 

You can watch Mary-Louise perform Harper's last monologue in Angels in America: Perestroika here.