bughouse

Pound entertained visiting poets and anti-Semites at St. Elizabeths, which he called “the Bughouse.”

She also sold a middle-grade novel, coming in 2020; signed up as a consulting producer on W. Kamau Bell’s CNN series, “United Shades of America”; and began hosting a new podcast, “Bughouse Square,” inspired by the archives of another Chicago gadfly, Studs Terkel.

“Bughouse—that’s what this business is—bughouse!”

Daniel Swift’s most recent book, “The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound,” was published last fall.

Eventually, Price goes totally bughouse and tries to slice someone in half with a massive, swinging Cuisinart blade that he maintains in the cellar.