Generosity & Tom Raworth
Christine Hume’s Shot
Maryrose Larkin’s Marrowing
Chris McCreary’s Apocrypha
Elisa Gabbert:
Is poetry boring?
Is the reading giving way to vaudeville?
Ray DiPalma’s House of Keys
Learning that Leslie Scalapino has died
Carol Mirakove’s Wall
Eileen Myles’ Inferno
From the other (original) Milk Magazine:
A Tangiers Journal for Paul Bowles,
Thomas Rain Crowe interviews Philip Lamantia,
Vincent Katz on
Yvonne Jacquette & Rudy Burckhardt,
George Wallace
on Mary Beach & Claude Pelieu,
& much more
“the most substantial body of criticism
in English this century”
(tho the author has been dead for 69 years)
Michael Dirda on the letters of
Ginsberg & Kerouac
Edmund White
on the photographs of Allen Ginsberg
Clarifying difficulty
JH Prynne on difficulty
Does experimental fiction have a future?
Ricardo Domeneck:
“The Poor Poet (after Carl Spitzweig)”
70 days into Geof Huth’s
365 ltrs project
Salt turns 10
The 7CV project:
Tan Lin with Danny Snelson
& numerous co-conspirators
& from Tao Lin,
an account of being arrested
for “trespassing” NYU Bookstore
Terminal boredom:
reading Tao Lin
Lydia Davis:
“My style is a reaction to Proust’s
long sentences”
Bill Bissett:
“th swans uv etobicoke”
Eleksographia: The French Issue
Pynchon’s Vineland at 20
Novels of the Pacific Northwest
Talking Borges with translator
Suzanne Jill Levine
Joan Retallack’s
Procedural Elegies / Western Civ Cont’d
Kevin Killian: 3 new poems
Michael Gottlieb
face-slapping the greenhorns
Francis Ponge’s Le Parti Pris de Choses
First translation,
favorite (if not really best) translation
Siri Hustvedt’s The Shaking Woman
British fiction is
“a poor relation”
to the masterworks of modernism
Some indies thrive, others struggle
in the electronic world
The e-book cliché drinking game
Poems are ill-suited to e-readers
Kindle e-book sales “stun” Bezos
In Lexington,
Kennedy Books turns 60
Tree House Books will close
A profile of Kamal Kumar Tanti
Bolaño’s The Return
Jo Shapcott’s Of Mutability
Pritish Nandy’s Again
10 questions on poetry & technology:
Eric Elshtain
Elizabeth Robinson
is the latest Fact-Simile trading card
An Iranian poet
articulating loss
August 5 in Philly:
Andrea Brady & Amy De’Ath
Labor Day Weekend in Oakland:
an all-star Labor Day event
Starting September 9,
an Olson study group in Gloucester
The Brooklyn Book Festival
will be September 12
Talking with Brian Clements
Benjamin Zephaniah in China
Does language influence culture?
Keetje Kuiper’s Beautiful in the Mouth
How sex disappeared from British fiction
Talking sex with Alice Fulton
Fulton’s “Claustrophilia”
William Golding:
“the name of our God is Random”
20 attempts to answer one question:
a life of Montaigne
Vonnegut Library gets a grant
from the Lily Endowment
Talking with Marco Kunz
Kunz: 3 poems
How the Boston Poetry Marathon morphed
when it moved to SF
An account of this year’s Boston (Poetry) Marathon
An alternate history to the Marathon
A dissent to that alternate history
The importance of looking Ernest
The collector with 700 books,
all the same book
Robert Burlingame’s
Some Recognition of the Joshua Lizard
Women’s memoirs
in the wake of
Candace Bushnell
Talking with Adam Zdrodowski
5 poems by Zdrodowski
Anthony Doerr’s Memory Wall
Keeping the spirit of William Meredith alive
Don Paterson’s Rain
Charles Simic: Losing
Henri Cole: a quietist, selected
4 quietists look back on early work
Jeff Buckley & William Shakespeare,
together again
Chekov & his brother
Christopher Hitchens on J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger puts on his socks
Is the Booker a barometer
of the best writing?
The 15 biggest best-sellers ever
after the Bible
An email parody of Lorin Stein
Allen Fisher: The Art of Flight
Dennis Cooper is a charming man
Rick Moody: So it goes
The Booker Prize long list
Jonas Mekas on Peter Orlovsky, 1960
Talking with Krystalli Glyniadakis
Glyniadakis: 5 poems
Stieg Larsson:
Kindle’s first million seller
Who (& what) is an author
in the age of cut-&-paste?
Troy Jollimore on Gary Shteyngart
Sandra Doller, David Mills, Maureen McLane
Unbound:
book art in Walnut Creek
Only 246 days
to prepare for PIFA!
Talking with Michael Govan about LACMA
Leonard Nimoy’s photographs
The Ansel Adams garage sale
The Gross Clinic restored
Currently in Barcelona,
Signs and Writing
Architecture of the sun
Nathaniel Ayers @ the White House
Nominate the next
NEA Jazz Masters
Greil Marcus:
My Van Morrison
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats
A Mountain Goats sampler
Edith Piaf & the score for Inception
Merle Haggard:
Learning to Live with Myself
Anne Rice has a revelation
Varieties of philosophical experience
All of Derrida in 3 ¶s
“an embittered, paranoid crank”
Are poets really this immature?
“The death of Silliman’s comments section
is the end of civilization as we know it”
How to cultivate
valuable discussion online
Jennifer L. Knox on Comment Field Bullies
Shanna Compton on
Internet Disinhibition Disorder
The diminishment of “free speech”
“What’s up with Silliman’s Blog?:
All is not well in the comments stream
If you don’t think
there is hate speech in poetry . . .
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