Questions tagged [james-parker]
Questions about the works of James Parker, staff writer for the American monthly magazine 'The Atlantic' and author of 'Turned On: A Biography of Henry Rollins' (1998).
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What is the effect of suddenly slipping into rhyme at the end of "Ode to Not Watching the World Cup"?
At the start of James Parker's "Ode to Not Watching the World Cup", no rhyme is present, just free verse, e.g.:
I don’t want to overstate this.
I don’t want to say that by watching World ...
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Why call them the "little pointy hours"?
This is the start of James Parker's "An Ode to Being Read To", which is in October 2022's The Atlantic.
I fixed my insomnia with whiskey and audiobooks.
Seriously. I was a terrible non-...
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What does "beak first" mean in "An Ode to America"?
From "An Ode to America" (The Atlantic's Jan/Feb 2022 issue):
“Pretty good nose you got there! You do much fighting with that nose?”
New Orleans, 1989. I’m standing on a balcony south of ...
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