Plus I have a new bibliography
Anne Tardos:
from “The Nines”
Fanny Howe:
Documenting the secret self
Viva Lamantia!
Talking with Paul Auster
Paris Review
makes all of its interviews
available online
Arundhati Roy faces arrest
Barbara Henning, Charles Bernstein
& Tenney Nathanson, reading & talking
The Practice of the Wild trailer
Remembering Jack Powers
NaNoWriMo is coming!
Talking with W.S. Merwin
Talking with James Prosek
about Elizabeth Bishop
Bill Barich & the roads less traveled
Chinua Achebe & the Gish Prize
Talking with Primož Čučnik
Oscar Wilde, classics scholar
Magic, mystery & politics in poetry
Stirring the cauldron
with Zukofsky’s “I”
Henry Gould’s Lanthanum 4
Reading Lanthanum
Some responses to
Marcella Durand’s
Traffic & Weather
Talking with Jenny Boully
Tao Lin’s salad days
99 ways into New Zealand poetry
Remembering Titsian Tibidze
Reading Dorothy Parker
Emily Dickinson’s
gingerbread cake
&
Emily Dickinson’s
chamber pot
Emeryville’s new laureate:
you are growing sleepy
Carol Muske Duke’s
“To a Soldier”
We remember to sell
the Chelsea Hotel
Ernest J. Gaines,
tending the land
where his ancestors were slaves
Turkish publisher
charged with publishing Apollinaire
is given award
Jibanananda Das:
Defining 20th Century Bengali poetry
Elena Fanailova’s The Russian Version
Middle-East focus
at international poetry fest
Pairing poetry & painting
T.S. Eliot
between reason & experience
Eliot’s 4 Quartets
Dean Young:
“The New Optimism”
Talking with April Bernard
Issa’s Sam Hamill
Talking with David Lehman
The question mark above Kent Johnson
From John Gallaher’s notebooks
Poetry absent again
at the SoCal independent booksellers
prizes
How can poetry that doesn’t rhyme
be so pleasing to the ear?
(Burning issues of the 19th century)
“when big crowds do gather for poetry,
the results are not always pretty”
The genre of toasts
Jonathan Franzen visits the White House
Big new print run for
The Finkler Question
“the Jewish Jane Austen”
Pride, prejudice
& her own punctuation
Why the Man Booker
is best
The Governor General’s shortlist
Poetry-professor named NBA finalist
Canadian novel
banned in Mumbai
Ireland’s wealth lies in its writing
What they are reading in New York subways
Confessions of a graphic novel convert
Early versions of Hammett & Hemingway
Thomas McGuane,
rancher with the wrong knees
A NY Times roundup
of recent books of poetry
In awe of Aleksandr Blok
Talking with Elizabeth Alexander
Jazz poetry in Pittsburgh
(in Burmese)
Block that adjective
The first information revolution
Students still like
their books on paper
The Adderall Diaries:
halfway between a book & an app
Free e-books at Starbucks
E-book restrictions
are locking libraries out
The prison librarian
Culling the library to save space
What really pays the bills
at a lot of bookstores
Shakespeare & Co.:
The bookstore that thinks
it’s a hotel
Former Duthie’s manager
opens own shop
Chicago’s best used bookstores
A trailer for a documentary on
Larry Levis
Philip Larkin’s Letters to Monica
What happened to the Beats
“Franco’s celebrity
hangs like an unspoken rebuke
over every word of
Palo Alto”
Franco’s next project?
A biopic of Hart Crane
Can books be compared
with works of art?
Trap rooms, trap streets, traps
Where was
“Where’s Muhammad?”
The collection of Dennis Hopper
The Baldessari Variations
Talking with Eric Drooker
about animating Howl
William Burroughs & Jimmy Page:
Stairway to Heaven
Angels in America
changed more than just theater
Fisk’s new plan
to sell off its art
Celebrating
Martina Arroyo, David DiChiera,
Philip Glass & Eve Queler
The rise of minimalism
(available only thru Friday)
Remembrance of things Keith
So has Marion Brown
Talking with Laurie Anderson
Mike Scott
amid dead poets
& has-been punks
What brain injuries
can teach us
about creativity
Top 10 corporations
that support the arts
Non-profits
experienced 11% drop in donations
in 2010
Genocide in the neighborhood
