Ron Padgett
on the letters from
Ted to Sandy Berrigan
Alfred Starr Hamilton
& the law
Kathy Acker’s
last published work
Concerning Cid Corman’s
“little books”
Close-reading Bruce Andrews
with Al Filreis, Sarah Dowling,
Chris Funkhouser & Tan Lin
Natasha Trethewey
on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Mark Wallace on
Elisa Gabbert, John Cotter, Chris McCreary
& Laura Moriarty
Jordan Davis on
Michael Gottlieb’s
Memoir and Essay
Lydia Davis in Playboy
Four visual poems by Jennifer Scappettone
Kimberly Lyon’s Abracadabra
Talking with Raúl Zurita
Talking with Amy King
More on The New Sentence
Aaron Belz
on Ange Mlinko & Rae Armantrout
Stephen Burt’s
Close Calls with Nonsense
Remembering George Hitchcock’s Kayak
Two prose poems by Richard Meier
Adam Fieled’s
“The Conspiracy Against Poems”
Joel Chace’s Cleaning the Mirror
Kate Hall reading
Gillian Conoley’s “New Pathologies”
Lisa Brackmann on Ursula K. LeGuin
Crag Hill, James Yeary & mIEKAL aND in Madison
Videos of Tom Beckett & Geof Huth
at the Avant Writing Symposium
Geof Huth:
What Word Once Was
Geof Huth at the Avant Writing Symposium:
Before, during, enduring & after
Linh Dinh: Plugged stupid
Charles Bernstein
lost in the West Edmonton Mall
Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Pitch: Drafts 77 – 95
Reading Ibadan
A great profile of Néstor Perlongher
Revaluating The New American Poetry
W.S. Merwin, green laureate
The next flash mob reading in Philadelphia
will be of the work of
Richard Brautigan,
in Chinatown, September 9
August 27 – September 19
Sawako Nakayasu at Not Content
at LACE
September 11 in SF,
celebrating the life of Larry Eigner
September 11 & 12 in Philly,
Michael Heller & Ellen Fishman-Johnson:
This Art Burning
September 12,
The Brooklyn Book Festival
September 13 in Seattle:
Norman Fischer & Emily Warn
September 21 in Harrisonburg, VA
A celebration of Lucille Clifton
KGB’s Monday night series for the fall
November 5 – 7,
The NY Art Book Fair
Feb 2 – 5 in DC:
The AWP lineup for 2011
Dennis Cooper on Robert Glück’s
Jack the Modernist
Diane DiPrima scheduled for Olson centennial
The New York Times discovers
the Whorf Hypothesis
Radiolab: Words
The associated video,
lush with visual cliché
Globish:
English as the language of empire
Joe Drabyak,
Chester County bookseller,
has died
Talking with Jonathan Lethem
Talking with Ben Fama
On John Simon
John Simon on Milan Kundera
Philip Lopate on Kundera
Kundera’s Encounter (excerpt)
Remembering James Dickey
Talking with Montgomery Maxton
The Kent Johnson conspiracy theory
Kent Johnson
on the Frank O’Hara
authorship discussion
How I learned to stop worrying
& love Frank O’Hara
Poetry and/or stand-up comedy?
Quietist mags
charging now for online submissions
Pathos & form in Don DeLillo
UK authors fight to keep
payments for library lending
Edwin Morgan’s funeral
Remembering Edwin Morgan
Katha Pollitt’s
American Book Award for
Lifetime Achievement
Rap & David Foster Wallace
Sincerity & David Foster Wallace
Franzen’s Freedom
is all the rage
even before it’s sold
“The novel of the century”
(all ten years)
“Jonathan Franzen and poo”
The Franzen roadshow
Talking with Jonathan Franzen
Franzen frenzy is not amusing
The Great American Novel
has a penis
Franzen reviews stir backlash
Here’s to literary bad girls
Telling Franzen to fly away home
When is a feud not a feud?
An “old-timey literary novel”
Franzen’s “American life”
Beyond the Freedom hype
Obama gets Freedom ARC
at a bookstore
& all hell breaks loose
Freedom’s just another book
for nothing left to lose
Next: the cover of Vogue
“the Great American Novel”
Franzen & the future
(with a side dis of modernism)
Scott Rudin options Freedom
The triumphs & failures of Freedom
What Oprah sez, or doesn’t
Booksellers brace for Mockingjay
Mockingjay’s midnight launch
Lee’s Mockingbird still sings
Emory’s new bookstore boasts
largest on-campus Starbucks
in the nation
Novelist Nancy Freedman has died
NYC’s only secular Yiddish bookstore
is losing its home
Carlin Romano:
Will the book survive?
Exclusive Amazon e- book deal collapses
It’s a truce
Or giving in to Random House
E-book price war heats up
E-book price war absurd
Color comes to the e-reader
The next e-book trend: advertising
Better yet:
literary product placement
Is fear of the iPad
stunting B&N in-store sales?
Indie bookstores
north of Manhattan
Judging home owners by their books
Young Twain, gone east
Things to look for
in contemporary poetry criticism
Brian Turner’s Phantom Noise
Nabokov & the short story
Imagining Joseph Massey
as Curtis Faville gone wrong
(by, in fact, Curtis Faville)
Curtis Faville
on Jessica Smith & the “Silenced Generation”
Jim Behrle’s video satire of the above
Talking with Julie Strand
Evolution & literary criticism
AS Byatt:
“I don’t believe in God”
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “The Brooch”
Take this question out back
3 New Zealand poets
The poems of
René Van Vackenborch
Remembering Frank Kermode
Günter Grass:
My last autobiography
Naipaul’s Africa
Leave it to Proust
The “distinguished ranks of the overlooked”
The silliness of source texting
Marathi poet Narayan Surve has died
Dancing to Marathi poems
Michael Dickman
wins the James Laughlin Award
When a poetry book
that hasn’t been released yet
wins an award
for having been published last year…
What William Gibson really wants
“12 favorite non-book
literary oddities on Ebay”
(I have still have my Gertrude Stein)
Lorin Stein: How Not to Write a Poem
Christoph Schlingensief has died
German provocateur was 49
The other side of Gil Scott-Heron
Johnny Otis
“at the center of American music”
Lorin Stein discovers music
The jazz photography of
Herman Leonard
Another Leonard obit & slide show
The poet-photographer of Prague
Ten death artists
Outsider art comes to Turin
For sale: Lennon’s loo
The integrity of the art market
Curtis Faville on the Ansel Adams hoopla
Marlene Dumas & the right of resale
The illustrator
who is never there
Frank Gehry’s fish lamps
Barry Schwabsky on Rafael Ferrar
Satoshi Kon has died
Glenn Beck, art critic
Politically incorrect cartoons
Dostoyevsky’s Batman
Art Spiegelman on Lynd Ward
Alex Carnevale on Fairfield Porter
Michael Dirda on Yunte Huang’s Charlie Chan
“a scintillating, provocative work of discovery”
Edward Kean wrote more than 2,000 episodes
of Howdy Dowdy
Guillermo del Toro & James Cameron
tackle H.P. Lovecraft
Bum rap for The Golden Mean
Too graphic for FrightFest?
The Supreme Court on
Arnold Schwarzenegger & Plato
The Word Made Flesh
trailer shoot
On the set of Atlas Shrugged
Reviewing the audience
instead of the film
When text met art in advertising
Another realism altogether
Art & politics:
the deafening silence
Saving art in times of crisis
The idea that will govern
the next decade
Man from the future
tries to stop Large Hadron Collider
Howard Zinn’s FBI files
How to win
rock paper scissors
every time
Things seen from Google Earth
Where dead computers go
While the university president
is making major system-wide cutbacks…
