Current Issue About Editorial Note Archives Submitting Links		Ron Singer The Names We Used to Know When Old Boy got, well, older, be began to carry around lists of names. "What was the name of that Elizabethan prose stylist known for his use of paratactic rhetoric?" (Pedant!) "What did Sid Caesar call his Alistair Cooke persona?" (Better!) "Thomas Nashe," he would reply (read). "Aristotle Cookie." But there were no guarantees. "What was that novel Paula Fox wrote about gentrification in Brooklyn?" Cobble Hill? Pitying looks made him want to "reach for my revolver." Joseph Goebbels. Desperate Characters. Next Poem
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