Leslie Scalapino on
The Dihedrons Gazelle –
Dihedrals Zoom
George Bowering,
“bullshit artist”
Best UK poetry site
I’ve yet seen
Talking with Elisa Gabbert
in an incredibly small font
Talking with Natasha Trethewey
Susan M. Schultz’
Old Women Look Like This
On grief –
& dying without finishing
your book
Talking with Ken Edwards
Who wrote the poems of Frank O’Hara?
Tony Towle’s “true account”
Flânerie ending with oi
From Ray DiPalma’s
“Obloquium & Committer of Tidings”
(plus a second set)
Tao Lin will have the scallops
Greying Ghost’s
chapbooks & miscellany
Jane Austen’s
problems with punctuation
James Baldwin’s
The Cross of Redemption
“white male literary darlings”
at the NY Times
Jonathan Franzen “comes alive”
Franzen’s Freedom
is a novel of 9/11
A taste of Freedom
“a masterpiece of American fiction”
Franzen ponders our freedom
Why quietists continue to live
in the 19th century
Want to buy Salinger’s toilet?
AS Byatt: The Orange Prize is sexist
A biography of Muriel Spark
Carmen Bramly,
France’s hot new novelist,
is 15
“Epileptic” Dickinson
Dickinson’s DVD
The “sham” of
The Ted Hughes Prize
James Franco on playing Allen Ginsberg
Lunacy & enlightenment in Beat letters
Bob Dylan & the Beats
Talking with Sean Wilentz about Dylan & the Beats
Filming On the Road outside Ottawa
Book cover design disaster:
Kerouac’s Tristessa
Has poetry destroyed the language?
Why glam?
Excerpts from
The Glamour of Grammar
Talking with Günter Grass:
(part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)
Talking with Daniil Kharms
(sorta)
3 new Kharms translations
Can you win elections with poetry in Berkeley?
Groundbreaking books
from Phyllis Wheatley to Lyn Hejinian
Suzanne Frischkorn’s American Flamingo
Leigh Davis flag poems
on display in
Kingsland, NZ
until March 2011
Saturday, August 28 in Philly:
Jennifer Karmin, Pattie McCarthy, Carlos Soto Roman
September 18 in Salem, MA,
Elyssa East reads from Dogtown
John Gallaher on Matthew Zapruder
Grim mystery in “Peter Pan’s” trunk
Nancy Drew accessories
Finding the right desk
Vonnegut Library to open in Indy
KC library’s epic parking garage
How to build furniture
out of books
Poetry apps for iPhones
Fighting for control
of Barnes & Noble
The lonesome death of B&N
Literary journals
in the age of the net
Seth Godin:
farewell to print
Online lit mags
E-book price war in the UK
David Pogue’s intern
reviews a smartpen
Early instances of text-speak,
from 1828
Shelf Unbound
will cover
small presses
for PCs, iPods, etc
New words for the OED
The problem of the book thief
in the age of digital reproduction
Appreciating Andrew Wylie
Bookstores raise funds
to fight censorship
John Taggart’s Pyramid Canon
Rachel Zucker’s
“Anatomy of the Long Poem”
Burying Molière again
Kundera’s Encounter
Mipoesias 23:3
has been edited by Bob Hicok
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s untold tale
An alternative history of the novel
Anthony Doerr’s Memory Wall
The Ipswich truffle:
H.P. Lovecraft’s writing
for Whitman’s chocolates
More details emerge
in the suicide of VQR editor
Kevin Morrisey
The University of Virginia
will review allegations
of bullying
Remembering Frank Kermode
Frank Kermode
& the origins of
The London Review of Books
Daniel Swift’s Bomber County
A critical volume on
Irish writing
Sinéad Morrissey’s
Through the Square Window
Longfellow’s Dante
Edward Hirsch & Rita Dove
on political poetry
On translation
Simon Cutts’
Some Forms of Availability
Stanley Fish:
The Ontology of Plagiarism (cont.)
Mark Doty: Why Poetry Matters Now
Converting Arthur Conan Doyle’s home
into apartments
The Brave Escape of
Edith Wharton
Adam Fieled’s Returns
200 authors at Brooklyn Book Fest
Getting seasick with Somerset Maugham
The Capilano Review
is all about poet’s theater
(check out the link)
William Howard Cohen’s
To Walk in Seasons
McGonagall’s dilemma
Seamus Heaney’s Human Chain
Using literature
(but not your own?)
to seduce men
Michael Snediker’s “Golden Bowl”
Here come the Wankhs
The right way to read
Billy Collins
Calling bad poets
Mickey Hess:
“I’ll blurb any book in 24 hours”
Searching for Richard Hugo
Kevin Young’s The Art of Losing
How to organize a book of poems
The world’s highest paid author
is NOT JK Rowling
Michael Rosen: Books that made me
More ridiculous things
overheard in bookstores
The new U of Toronto Quarterly
is all about text-music interactions
The 10 rules of rock-n-roll
What Arcade Fire @ Madison Square Garden
means to the music industry
Swell Season’s swell session
What’s the worst thing
that ever happened
at one of your gigs?
Well, it could be worse
Rufus Wainwright:
the importance of being unpopular
Retooling the Philly Folk Fest
for the 21st century
Free that tenor sax
(from ©)
Classical music’s new golden age …
Is a delusion, says Greg Sandow
Is not, replies Heather Mac Donald
The fierce music of
Estonia, Latvia
Close-reading “Mercy Street”
The 5-time Oscar nominee
at NY’s Fringe Fest
Sean O’Casey’s
The Silver Tassie
After Kubrick
Talking with Truffaut
Talking of Truffaut
Atlas Shrugged: The Movie
Al Hirschfeld,
“The Line King,”
& his heirs
Talking with Steve Roden
Isabelle Sorrell’s responses to Bill Berkson
The Work of Art
reaches a conclusion in
“a glorified broom closet”
An exhibit commemorating
Act-Up!
@ White Columns in NYC
with a reading series curated by
Sarah Schulman
Judge rejects deal
to permit Fisk University to sell
its Georgia O’Keeffe collection
One block from the birthplace
of Alice B. (for Babette) Toklas,
941Geary
goes from garage to gallery
The boy who bit Picasso
Enrique Chagoya’s
Ytrebil
at Galería de la Raza
thru Aug. 28
Matthew Barney @ Schlaulager Basel
Graphic novels
go to biz school
Thomas Pynchon,
the comic strip
13 classic books
turned into “breath-taking”
graphic novels
Gorlizki at the Berggruen
Happy B ‘day, Specs
So what are you going to be
when you grow up?
“Meritocrats” by Tony Judt
Talking with Tony Judt
Tony Judt:
1948 – 2010
Adam Kirsch
on writing and/or leadership
Mario Obledo,
who in 1977 appointed me to the
California State Task Force
on Health Conditions
in Local Detention Facilities,
has died
Anti-tech teachers fight back
I haven’t said thanks lately
to Don Wentworth & Lynn Behrendt
for the help they give me –
the mistakes are entirely my own!
