Rae Armantrout’s
“uniquely broken heart”
“Who is Rae Armantrout?”
“But what about the nipples?”
Blake Butler, Roxane Gay, Kate Zambreno & Amy King
on gender, publishing & more
(part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
A conversation with Kathy Acker
(reg. req.)
Brontë Sister Power Doll Action Figures
When you’re lost in the rain in Juárez
Sina Queyras unleashed
Talking with Marguerite Abouet
Smothering your mother with treacle
Marjorie Evasco’s Skin of Water
Charles Bernstein in Banff
(part 1) (part 2)
Official Catalog
of the Library of Potential Literature
Theory, literature, hoax
(Yes, this appeared in the NY Times in 2010!)
10 questions on poets & technology:
Amy King
Notes on 8 years of book blogging
Talking C. Max Magee
Does Google’s book deal violate treaties?
Amazon to drop freebies
from Kindle “best seller” list
Talking with Saadi Youssef
Poets under 30 go MIA
(In fairness, the group reading of Ashbery’s “Europe”
& a reading by Kate Durbin & Cara Benson
were at the same time, no??)
Why are university presses so good for poetry?
Harriet’s move from blog
to aggregation
is a mistake
Ted Enslin’s I, Benjamin
100,000 rare books lost
in Oregon bookstore fire
Willits loses Leaves of Grass
The specialty bookshops of Cambridge, MA
The 2010 UCLA Campbell
Book Collecting Award
Don Share & Paul Vangelisti
on the “uneven distribution of the future”
Jimmy Schuyler on Frank O’Hara
Jennifer Karmin’s “Aaaaaaaaaaalice”
A writers-in-residence program
that actually matters
& a journal to go with it
rob mclennan: “Alberta, Redux”
Norman Finkelstein on Burt Kimmelman
The Franz Wright critique of the MFA generations
Ralph Ellison’s Three Days After the Shooting
Marilyn Hacker’s “A Braid of Garlic”
A call to end Canada’s barrier to imported books
“A patch for your novel is ready to download”
Howard Junker, wandering poet,
making like Li Po (sort of)
What is Canadian literature?
Fence manifesto:
Please write poetry
Interrupture, a “word band”
Amelia Roselli’s The Dragonfly
Tagore at 150
R.S. Thomas & the Welsh
Simon Jarvis’
Wordsworth’s Philophic Song
(reg. req.)
On Samuel R. Delany on writing
T.S. Eliot is not obliged to love me
Inna Grade has died
A profile of Lynn Xu
Talking with Corey Mesler
Daniel Pritchard on Daisy Hay’s Young Romantics
The Writings of Jonathan Bayliss
The perpetual life of Philip K. Dick
The Art of American Book Covers
My first time, or I lost it to fine binding
Scott Esposito on John D’Agata
Ed Baker’s De:Sire Is
Talking with Ed Baker
May 18, Norwich, UK:
An evening with Les Murray & Andrew Motion
Infinite regret: David Foster Wallace
A profile of Wallace from 1996
Henri Cole’s Pierce the Skin
Pittsburgh’s patron saint of poetry
Did Nick Clegg doom his party
by naming Samuel Beckett as his favorite author?
Love Over 60:
An Anthology of Women’s Poems
Jack Gilbert’s The Dance Most of All
Wine & friendship in Tang Dynasty poetry
Poetry of the 19th century Northwest
Talking Alain de Botton
What brought Twain fame
Walker Percy’s weirdest book
Martin Amis’
“remarkably tedious new novel”
“such an exasperating novelist”
The curse of the English novelist
2 Books on E.M. Forster
Banned books you read in high school
The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
edited by Andrea Brady & Emily Butterworth
(reg. req.)
“Top 10 Absurd Classics”
& not a word about Daniil Kharms
No such thing as silence:
John Cage’s 4’33”
Andrei Codrescu on conceptual art
Crichton the collector
Crichton’s Johns brings in $29M
5 questions for the author of
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
The mystery bidder
Amy Sillman:
How many lightbulbs does it take to change a painting?
How to display a contemporary work of art
The photos of Tinker Greene
Craig Kauffman has died
Avigdor Arikha has died
Warhol film curator, Callie Angell has died
Maps with an agenda
Intellectuals in the age of Obama
Wittgenstein’s Notebooks 1914 – 1916
Noam takes the day off
Levi Asher responds to Harold Bloom on
“The Jewish Question”
When is anti-Zionism also anti-Semitism?
Jupiter goes without a belt
A writer’s guide to Microsoft Office
