Skip to content
the smart set

Author: John Cotter

John Cotter’s first novel Under the Small Lights appeared in 2010 from Miami University Press. A founding editor at the review site Open Letters Monthly, John’s published critical work in Sculpture, Bookforum, and The The Poetry Foundation. Say hi at John [at] JohnCotter [dot] net.
§

03/13/2017

The Dancer Upstairs

The impact of J. M. Coetzee novels

by John Cotter

§

10/14/2016

Poetry, Approximately

Bob Dylan writes amazing songs, but they are not literature.

by John Cotter

§

08/19/2016

Landscape is Action

Finding life in landscapes

by John Cotter

§

04/27/2016

Chillin’ with DeLillo

Cryogenics of the systems novel

by John Cotter

§

01/21/2016

Friends of Dead Poets Society

Larry Levis’ latest (and possibly last) posthumous collection

by John Cotter

§

11/12/2015

The Novelist as Anglerfish

by John Cotter

§

10/16/2015

Loserville

by John Cotter

§

08/13/2015

Singsong Kidspeak

by John Cotter

§

08/03/2015

Immaterial Worlds

by John Cotter

§
  • Support the Smart Set
  • Submissions
  • Contributors
  • Contact Us

the smart set is an online magazine covering culture and ideas, arts and science, global and national affairs- everything from literature to shopping, medicine to sports, philosophy to food. The Smart Set strives to present big ideas on the small, the not-so small, and the everyday. >>

The Smart Set is published and supported by the Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University. Learn more about PHC >>

Subscribe

Get our latest stories in your inbox, weekly

follow us:

or try…

advice animals art book review books childhood comics cooking culture death family feminism film food friendship gender health history journalism language life literature love memory money movies music nature painting philadelphia philosophy photography poetry politics reading religion science sex technology television travel women writing
  • Conversations
  • Ideas
    Like a headache, with pictures.
  • Journeys
  • Archive