The Autobiography of Larry Eigner
Joseph Mosconi’s Word Search
Recordings of most of
Oakland’s Labor Day extravaganza
Bhanu Kapil on “duplicate territory”
David Wolach featured on PhillySound
Kate Greenstreet’s
“notes for Called”
Rodger Kamenetz:
introducing Kafka to Rabbi Nachman
Kamenetz discusses Burnt Books
Talking with Harry Northup
Talking with Tyrone Williams
Talking with 55 Words
What causes language?
Pierre Joris
is blogging all of
Claude Pelieu’s novel
Kali Yug Express,
starting here
Mairéad Byrne’s
The Best of (What’s Left of) Heaven
Margaret Christakos’ Welling
Faculty poetry night at UC Berkeley
Talking with Cynthia Reeser
David Arnold’s
Poetry and Language Writing
Jayne Pupek has died
George Hitchcock
dies at 96
Stephen Kessler on George Hitchcock
NY Times obit of Hitchcock
Talking with Glass Coin
Making a magazine
in 48 hours
Tan Lin’s EPC page
Tao Lin keep its real (or not)
Tao Lin:
It Boy for the internet
John Tranter’s “Perfume”
SPD’s poetry best sellers
Ken Chen’s Juvenilia
Marianne Moore
on the dangers of professionalism
Robert Hass’ Buson
Esque is rrific
The sincerest form of ridicule
Joyce, Wallace &
the problems of scale
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi reading
with translations by Sarah Maguire
4 translations of Charles Bernstein’s
“Catabolism” into German
Charles Bernstein’s
All the Whiskey in Heaven
Allen Ginsberg’s apartment
is up for rent
September 8 in Milwaukee,
Tony Trigilio
on Allen Ginsberg’s Buddhist poetics
Howl: The Graphic Novel
September 9 in LA,
The Zapotec Bukowski
September 9 & 11,
Eastern Penitentiary, Philadelphia,
Vijay Iyer
September 10 in Brooklyn,
Tao Lin @ Spoonbill & Sugartown
September 11 in Philadelphia,
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
September 11 & 12 in Philly,
Michael Heller & Ellen Fishman-Johnson:
This Art Burning
September 12 in Philly
Bang on a Can Marathon
(2:00 PM – Midnight)
September 16
@ Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee
Marilyn Crispell
with both a workshop & a concert
September 19 in Oakland,
Stephen Farmer & Nathalie Stephens
September 20 & 21 in Dublin,
Séamus Cain’s The Prairie Gaeltacht
September 25 – 26,
Pittsburgh’s Small Press Festival
Sept. 30 – Oct. 3:
Lowell celebrates Kerouac
CFP: Defining the New:
Experiments & Innovations in English Studies
Oct. 22 – 23, Athens, OH
Poe in the projects
The Chicago Manual of Style
changes yet again
The OED
“will not be printed again”
Which online dictionary is best?
Of 2 minds about books
Nobody knew what to do with books either
Here comes
product placement
in books
Sony & Borders
shift e-reader strategies
Sony’s next generation
of e-readers
E-books can make you less “bookish”
E-research & methodological innovation
in Dutch literary studies
Love in the time of
indie bookstores
“the perfect bookstore”
Borders to sell
Build-a-Bear items
as readers move to e-books
(we’re not making this up!)
B&N will shut down
its store @ Broadway & 66th St
in NYC
Borders shuts SF store
Illinois bookshop turns 20
Another university press
bites the dust
The USB typewriter
Manga Shakespeare
Dick and Jane and Vampires
The Library of Congress
Poet & the Poem Webcasts
(perhaps the best collection
of quietist recordings
in the country)
Ljubljana:
World Book Capital
Franco Moretti:
What is “world literature”?
Bolaño:
“Literature + Illness = Illness”
Reading
The New York Review of Books
2010 PEN USA Literary Award
winners & finalists
“Bitte,
Ich Spreche Nur Amerikanisch”
Urdu fiction from India
Jeffrey Beam’s Gospel Earth
Over 150 Lolita covers
Haitian educator turns to poetry
Talking with Gabriel Gudding
in teeny tiny type
Matthew Zapruder’s “Pocket”
Rereading Gatsby
The DEA’s problems with Ebonics
Talking with Jim Behrle
Franz Kafka International Airport
David Markson,
as he might have written the obit
Talking with James Ellroy
Mina Loy’s “Lunar Baedeker”
Robert Wrigley:
“a considerable wind”
Jeni Olin’s Hold Tight:
The Truck Darling Poems
Talking with Kyle Hemmings
William J. Harris:
“A Guy in a Black SUV”
“Even in Kyoto…
I long for Kyoto”
Bei Dao’s “Travel”
Neal Stephenson
unveils his digital novel
The Imperfectionists:
What is a novel?
Write a nasty book
& get a girly cover…
Robert Bolaño’s The Return
Quoth John Cusak, “Nevermore!”
Talking with Susan Tepper & Gary Percesepe
The fiction of Ingo Schulze
71% of the fiction reviewed
by the NY Times
is written by men
Feminist “Franzenfreude” over
book’s reviews
The Franzen feud
Does it have to be Franzen?
Judge the book, not the person
The Flight of Jonathan Franzen
Franzen’s characters compel
Has Franzen learned
to cope with fame?
Franzen:
4 books you must read
Ted Berrigan
on Kerouac’s notoriety
“Bill Berkson, Ron Padgett, Jordan Davis, and Tony Towle …
all are strongly convinced that
this publication is a malicious hoax”
Ed Baker:
Full moon pointing
Moira Egan’s Bar Napkin Sonnets
Richard Brautigan
looking out at the reader
Pynchon on plagiarism
Barry Gifford’s “The Age of Fable”
Ed Coletti’s swan song
Lois Roma-Deeley’s High Notes
Talking with Sean Ferrell
Writer’s block & self-censorship
The best poem about the British countryside?
VQR cancels issue
& shuts its office
Another version
of the events at VQR
LA’s Lit Crawl:
the view from the stage
Reginald Dwayne Betts’
Shahid Reads His Own Palm
Howard Junker’s future past
H.L. Mencken
against “boobus Americanus”
Richard Hugo House is kaput!
A writers center in Mississippi
shuts down
The Lizard Lounge slam team
Stephen Burt on
Steve McLaughlin on the road
McLaughlin’s The American Scene
Recreating Kerouac’s vision
in Hull (pronounced ‘Ull)
Can the Apostrophe Song
save this wayward mark?
Don Share on the major minors
Griffin Poetry Prize judges announced
Grand Theft Auto:
Emily Dickinson edition
Save the Warburg Library!
Laura Crozier’s
The Blue Hour of the Day
Plath fans call for fitting memorial
John Ashbery on poetry in prose
Whitman’s funeral
What Whitman did for Ashbery
Brooklyn Bookfest
to honor Ashbery
Richard Krech:
“Playing the Game”
Baldwin’s cross
Poetry bombs of a different sort
Jackie Kay
for Scotland’s “national poet”
Saramago’s elephant
Business cards for fictional characters
Jonathan Lethem’s imagined metropolis
10 classic tales
of suburban ennui
Dickens comes to Des Moines
The Modern Dickens Project
Talking with Chris Draper
Daniel Swift’s Bomber Country
P&W’s 2011 “top 50 MFA School” rankings
The Booker Man Prize
has its own app
& its own evil twin
Ts & Cs for
Not the Booker
Ian Hocking:
stopping writing
No ideas but in donuts
Frank Kermode
on loving poetry
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s popular “songs”
Trying very hard to promote your book
without really saying anything
Claire Keegan
on the constraints of short fiction
Michael Sledge:
ventriloquism for Elizabeth Bishop
The poetics of
Hot Tub Time Machine
The obscurity of popular poetry
Reading Vona Groarke’s “Pier”
Was the real reason for Germany’s
industrial expansion
the absence of ©?
The problem of falling
for Seamus Heaney’s bull
Heaney’s first book
since his stroke
A look at Irish poetry
from down under
Young poets share rhymes
Felix Dennis: This much I know
September poets
Jan Bradley’s “Shaving the Lions”
Close reading literary tatts
Kurt Vonnegut Sr.’s
tobacco pipe cleaner
Does a book’s popularity
guarantee movie success?
Ayn Rand fanboy’s
really big ad
Thurston Moore, publisher
Penguin radio
William Gibson:
What do we want from Google Earth?
Chris Milk’s The Wilderness Downtown
with Arcade Fire & your house
(requires Google Chrome but well worth it)
Some samba from Chucky B
Talking with Sean Wilentz
about Bob Dylan
“I came out of the wilderness”
How Dylan wrecked
Tin Pan Alley
“Bringing it all back home”
The Plastic Ono Band
recruits Lady Gaga,
Nels Cline, Thurston Moore,
Iggy Pop, the RZA & more
Lucinda Childs comes to Philadelphia
On the Road
fan site for the forthcoming film
More dish
on who’s in the film
Where is Jean-Luc Godard?
Short films from the Arab world
Charlie Chan has it both ways
“No. 1 Sleuth”
Basquiat: Radiant Child
Are artist’s statements really necessary?
Who owns Michelangelo’s David?
Can selling O’Keeffe’s art
save a university?
Lou Reed: photographer
Late Dalí:
it’s not over till it’s over
Swapping out Gainsborough
in Cape Town
Alfred Leslie’s
100 Views Along the Road
Co-owner of missing painting
ID’d as art thief
I’m the victim, says he
The Pangolin dream foundry
Fluxibition #4
Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman
is coming to TV
Henri Lefebvre:
Rythmnanalysis:
Space, Times & Everyday Life
What are words worth?
The end of tenure
Walter Mosley:
Ten things the past can teach us
Simon Singh:
fighting the anti-science mob
Data:
the new oil or the new soil?
No knowledge but through information
Stephen Hawking:
God is unnecessary
Auggie down under
