Michael & Flynn Lally (Photo © Star Black)
I’m happy to see that
Michael Lally
has been blogging
about the effects of
brain surgery
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Geoffrey Gatza’s Thanksgiving Feast
menu poem extravaganza
this year is dedicated to
C.D. Wright
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The Mottram Effect
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Q, W & X
are still illegal in Turkey
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Pogsound:
a great archive of readings in Tucson
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kari edwards’ Bharat jiva
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2009 George Oppen Memorial Lecture:
Rosmarie Waldrop
San Francisco, Dec. 16
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Laura Elrick’s Stalk
Dec. 10 in NYC
“Poetry, Ecology,
and the Reappropriation
of Lived Space”
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Ray DiPalma’s The Ancient Use of Stone
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Homophoning
“Jack & Jill” into French
back in the 18th Century
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Talking with Sara Larsen & David Brazil
about one little mag I’ve never seen
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An all-women shortlist
for BBC short story prize
As compared to
“a literary sausage party”
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Poetry as Power:
The Dynamics of Cognitive Poetics
as a Scientific & Literary Paradigm
(reg. req.)
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Google has digitized
10,000,000 books
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SPD’s annual open house
is December 6 -
20-50% off all books!
Hundreds of Buck-a-Book $1 books!
Plus readings & a poetry trading post
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MacDiarmid’s muse’s menu
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Talking with Andrei Codrescu
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Don DeLillo’s “Midnight in Dostoevsky”
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Close reading aloud Vachel Lindsay
Vachel Lindsay reading
Lindsay as a sound poet:
“Mysterious Cat”
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Who’s been eating my Naked Lunch?
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Englynion –
Britain’s answer to the haiku
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Brenda Hillman
at Open Books
in Seattle
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The fate of
The Northwest Review
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Is sending Catullus a form of assault?
Wikipedia’s translation
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Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun –
a Ulysses for sci-fi?
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Tweets lead to hard time
for Roger Avary
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The demise of Borders
is not the end of bookselling
in the UK
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The top word for 2009?
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Philip Levine
on Robert Lowell & John Berryman
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2010 Library of Congress
radio lineup announced
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Finding Darwin on the toilet
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Only 2 books of poetry –
both Quietist –
make The NY Times
notable books of 2009
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Prognosticating e-books for 2010
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Christian Peet’s Big American Trip
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Bringing back Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
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&s in court
What’s new with the font freaks
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The poetry poll
with the worst taste
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The Bad Sex prize goes to
an American in Paris
Why they call it a “short list”
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Charles Simic on being homeless
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James Wood on Paul Auster
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Yours truly
at Poe’s tomb
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An obit for Marcel
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Yang Xianyi has died
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What killed Jane Austen?
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Yeats’ Blake
(reg. req.)
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Talking with Cormac McCarthy
Want to buy McCarthy’s typewriter?
Bid here
The Road
is too faithful to the book
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Or you could buy some Baudelaire
(including a suicide note)
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Here come the interCaps
(as those of us
at ComputerLand called them
in the 1980s)
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Walter Benjamin & Bertholt Brecht
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A short history of hello
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Who’s afraid of the big bad Whorf?
(reg. req.)
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When Roald Dahl
became a children’s author
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Finding the right readers
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Brad Leithauser’s The Art Student’s War
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Alice Munro’s Object Lesson
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Phillip Lopate:
My favorite book from 2009
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Novica Tadić’s Dark Things
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Vonnegut’s letter home
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What we talk about
when we talk about
style
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The library in a phone booth
Libraries should sell books
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Translating Tolstoy
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Jonathan Franzen:
Germany is like my parents
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Washington Post
closes all domestic bureaus
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Zadie Smith
changes her mind
(& genre)
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Three of the world’s top 5 Scrabble players
are Thai
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Ian McEwan:
“The Use of Poetry”
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Michael Wood on Eliot’s letters
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The Bolaño Myth
& the Backlash Cycle
Some stray questions
for Roberto Bolaño
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Terry Pratchett’s jokes
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James Ellroy,
tenuously reformed pervert
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Burns’ legacy “burns on”
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Franz Wright’s Wheeling Motel
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Eponyms Я Them
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“50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World,”
starting with the Dali Lama & Christian Bök
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Feminist Review on GirlDrive
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The death of cool
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Some books that inspired musicians
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The Rockpile files
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Jack Kerouac sings
“Ain’t We Got Fun”
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Examining “Your Love” by The Outfield
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Bess Lomax Hawes has died
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Some rare clips of Bob Dylan’s Hard Rain
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Ten great singers
who can’t sing
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Satchmo & the Jews
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Vijay Iyer’s Historicity
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Art of the bar code
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The visual art of Yedda Morrison
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The disappearance of Ford Beckman
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Edward Keinholz
& the sex trade
at the National Gallery
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Manga at the British Museum
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Artist whose medium
is hardware store windows
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“Social painting” at Art Jamming
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Robert Frank:
never on time
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Andy Warhol never died
Warhol’s screenwriter
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Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art
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Renzo Piano:
the architect as pirate
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Cultural Cognition
as a Conception
of the Cultural Theory of Risk
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Big Media gets quite a bit bigger
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What is living & what is dead in
social democracy
