Thursday, August 02, 2007

Talking with
Christian Bök

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Charles Simic
is the new
poet laureate
of the
United States

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Digital lit
from a non-avant
perspective

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13 ways
of looking at
an electronic blackbird

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Interviewing
Douglas Brinkley
about
Jack Kerouac

Brinkley’s edition of
Kerouac’s road novels
leaves out
Visions of Cody
&
This Railroad Earth

Unrolling the scroll
(& check out the other
YouTube
selections of Kerouac,
especially this)

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Over 1,000 pages
by or about
John Tranter:
here,
here
& here

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Talking with Dodie Bellamy
about inhabiting
Kathy Acker

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A profile of
Victor Segalen

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Bookslut
reviews
The City Visible

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Poetry vs. Parnassus
(may require subscription)

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Black sci-fi

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The New Writings Ventures
shortlists
includes a performance poet
from
Bangladesh

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Recording of an interview
with Martín Espada

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Russell Baker
on the end of
newspapers

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Newsroom
of the future?

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The latest
save the newspaper
book review

piece

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Sven Birkerts
on why blogging
won’t save
literary culture

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A new model
for a university press

Plus more
on the Ithaka Report
on university publishing
for a digital age

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Administrative shenanigans
put New College
at risk

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A book series
focused on
Native American poets

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Athol Fugard
in exile

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Vernon Reid
on
Sekou Sundiata

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The memoirs of
Wole Soyinka

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Remembering
Abdullah Hamud Humran

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Trakl’s
Song of Kaspar Hauser

& Scott Horton on
translating Trakl

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JK Rowling:
what’s next

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Harry Potter
& the rest of the book business

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Can laser printers
cause cancer?

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“The Great Curmudgeon

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The “world’s worst poet

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The “lost poems”
of Joe DiMaggio

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Phillip Lopate:
Adapting fiction to film

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Andreas Huyssen
on the secret of
Günter Grass

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Robert Pinsky
on
Wislawa Szymborska

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Used books
are a
buyer’s market

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The NEA
gets a new
literature director

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There’s no quietude
like Irish Quietude
unless it’s
Scotch

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As distinct from the
”Raunchy, provocative poetry
forged amid the
sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll era”
of
New Zealand’s boomer poets

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Poets & Writers
calendar of grant deadlines

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At Antioch,
the president resigns
& calls for an independent board

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The First Word

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The role of culture
in American history

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Priming the unconscious

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Literacy & life expectancy

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Join the fight
to save the Barnes

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Guggie director Lisa Dennison
going to the dark side

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Schjeldahl’s Courbet

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More on the suicides
of Theresa Duncan
& Jeremy Blake