New Directions’ new colophon
On Patti Smith
National Book Award-winning novelist
Jaimy Gordon
has deep roots in the small press,
post-avant world
Early poems by Terrance Hayes
No fairy tales at the NBA
But surprise all around
A Ayyappan has died
So has Norris Church Mailer
Talking with John Tranter
Jena Osman’s The Network
Rosmarie Waldrop:
“By the Waters of Babylon”
Stephen Ratcliffe’s thousand-page poem cycle
Remarks on Color / Sound
is the second volume in a trilogy
of such works, of which
Human / Nature was the first
Rejecting Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Jonathan Safran Foer
doesn’t have this problem
when he does his
Ronald Johnson schtick
Allen Bramhall on Paul Blackburn
Bramhall’s ongoing interview
with Jeff Harrison
has now reached the 150th exchange
Allison Cobb’s Green-Wood
The Atlantic on slow poetry
In Australia, Roberta Sykes has died
The world still doesn’t recognize
women writers
The riddles of Tillie Olsen
Dodie Bellamy:
The Howe Connection
Giving voice to women’s poetry
Difficulty in the work of Leslie Scalapino
3 poems by the San Diego “firecracker”
Rae Armantrout:
A Californian in the infidel east
Rae Armantrout’s
selections for the Omnidawn Poetry Prize
& the winner is Kelli Anne Noftle
Poetry, promotion, polemics
& language writing
The lesson on Langpo
Evolving English
Olson at Kent
“Constructed Anarchy” –
Marjorie Perloff on Cunningham & Cage
“From the Bombast of Vachel Lindsay
to the Compass of Noise:
The Papers of Bob Cobbing
at the British Library”
Ever Saskya’s visual sound poems
Encyclopedia Project reading
at Small Press Traffic
Reading a typo
in the work of Paul Celan
Pierre Joris:
on the history of British poetry
A win for penmanship
Describe your work in a single word
Jane Unrue’s Life of a Star
The average reader
Online literary journals come of age
Joseph Beuys & the problem of ©
A guide to the © issues
of multimedia projects
Joan Dudley takes to the streets
& a second round
Nathalie Stephens’
We Press Ourselves Plainly
Rita Dove & Haki Madhubuti
share the Hurston/Wright Legacy Prize
Jerome Rothenberg
on US Poets in Mexico
On the work of Ko Un
Remembering Young-Moo Kim
Translations by Brother Anthony of Taizé
Writing in Setswana
Poets fete Fela
Martín Espada on
colonialism & the poetry of
rebellion in Puerto Rico
Duo Duo’s advice to writers:
Grow up
Hans Keilson’s
Comedy in a Minor Key
Western influences
in Bangladeshi poetry
Irish poetry news roundup
Séamas Cain
takes The Prairie Gaeltacht
back to Ireland
The lit mag returns,
bathed in technology
Orhan Pamuk’s
The Naïve and Sentimental Novelist
Ange Mlinko & Gertrude Schnackenberg
Robert Pinsky
on the king of Snark
Who’s funnier: Chesterton or WC Fields?
Philip Lopate on Thomas Bernhard
2 books by James Longenbach
Reading The Kindly Ones
Owen Sheers’
A Poet’s Guide to Britain
Adam Zagajewski
receives European Poetry Prize
The Page Turner Awards Winners
Clive James on Christian Wiman
Some nudes by Sara Mumolo
Some translations by R.H. Blyth
Adam Roberts:
7 Poets I Love
(Oppen, Spahr, Christensen, Carson,
Rankine, Creeley & Lerner)
Translating Kerouac’s haiku into Persian
Kerouac gets whacked in
On the Bro’d
William Burroughs: A Man Within
William Burroughs in Palm Beach
William Burroughs living the good life
William Burroughs: Naked Emotion
A film about Burroughs, the myth
A review so negative that it leads
with a homophobic title
Living with Bukowski’s ghost
“Modern” books are too long
Roy Fisher makes the Costa short list
Costa can’t find enough biographies
Publishers have lost interest
Spain rediscovers Miguel Hernandez
Jews, poetry & the avant-garde
“Mr. Conrad is not a Jew”
A profile of Iain Haley Pollock
Learning Gullah
Saadullah Shah’s Mixing Shadows
Brad Flis’ Peasants
Maya Angelou, Yo-Yo Ma, Jasper Johns,
Bill Russell & Stan the Man
among Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
Dorothy Porter’s The Bee Hut
Talking with Wendell Berry
(scroll down a little)
Defending Robert Hass
& here, here, here, here,
here & here
Michael Robbins responds
Zakariya Amataya:
Thailand’s Sunni Beat poet
Talking with Mike Prime
Rescuing Canadian poetry
from the international obscurity
of its famous poets
(huh?)
Leonard Cohen
has a poem on his time
in the Communist Party
in the new Five Dials
Let children be the judge
of a good book
Billy Collins meets his reader
Poetry & the flight from meaning
Chew your poems properly
Giving up politics for poetry
Michael Kelleher on
Kent Johnson’s conspiracy theory…
As modified by fear of litigation
Nominate your frenemies for this year’s Jories
Daniel Pritchard on
the decline of the School of Quietude
CB Follett,
Marin’s poet laureate
Kiki Petrosino’s “Ragweed”
Lauren Levin on Merry Fortune’s
Ghosts by Albert Ayler
Deborah Poe’s Elements
Four Minutes to Midnight: Fugue XI
collaboration & appropriation
Looking back at Soft Skull
Fighting to keep freedom of speech
Some testimony
Blogger freed in Egypt
after 4 years of prison
Why you should not ban hate speech
19 US senators
who voted to censor the internet
&
one who is trying to stop them
(note the different descriptions of the same bill)
Singapore jails British author
Censorship, judgment & Amazon
NY Times profiles Austin’s BookPeople
Which stores survive
& which do not
in the Joseph-Beth bankruptcy
In Memphis, Davis-Kidd survives
But not in Nashville
Bookstore thriving despite the odds
4 booksellers look to the future
As textbooks go digital
campus bookstores will go bookless
What they’re reading
on college campuses
One way to promote books
French deal may signal breakthrough
in Google books deal logjam
21 genres of fiction –
as distinct from categories –
of which “literary” is only one
The value of the letter
The Offending Adam’s
holiday book list
Leopardi’s daybook
Zim poets in Chinese anthology
In Lagos, poetry for national rebirth
Collection spans
modern Mideast’s literary landscape
Mr. Walcott egrets
Tolstoy’s great estate
An index of the PIPs
The remains of Michael Chabon’s
Fountain City
Günter Grass:
yet another memoir
Harry Potter’s true nemesis
Paul Auster’s Sunset Park
Mark Twain’s runaway best-seller
This is Mark Twain
This is Mark Twain settling scores
“Hunting the Deceitful Turkey”
Another best-selling author
What Green Apple Books
has decided to do
with profits from
W’s book
Elena Fanailova
makes the poltical personal
A memoir by Ivana Lowell
(daughter of Robert)
An excerpt via Google books
Poets’ Paradise in Sierra Madre
Les Murray – a life in writing
Who is the better western novelist,
McCarthy or McMurtry?
Report from Victoria:
Edgar Guest or Robert Service?
John Gallaher on MFA programs
Henry Hart
wins the Weinstein prize
Talking with John Hayes
Don Paterson’s Degree of Sight
No bullying found at VQR
Ben Lerner: Letter from New York
A profile of John Ashbery
Lottery rescues Dickens’ house
Plain-speaking Mary Oliver
Lucian Blaga:
Romanian neglectorino
The Pocket Essential
Literary Theory
(registration required)
Pat Conroy’s favorite Southern novels
Cynthia Ozick’s Foreign Bodies
F.A. Nettlebeck’s Happy Hour
What makes a poem right for a wedding?
Gregory Corso
wrote the best one ever
Talking with Lan Samantha Chang
about her Iowa City roman a clef
The unopened letter in the Vonnegut Library
$100K to the library
Elmore Leonard:
what to leave out
Why 10,000,000 novelists
keep writing
Another book for kids
from Salman Rushdie
Saul Bellow’s search
for the vernacular
Nadine Gordimer’s non-fiction
Picador will re-release
Don DeLillo’s novels in the UK
Misreading Gulliver
Size doesn’t matter
when it comes to book awards [?]
A digital key to unlock the humanities
What bloggers owe Montaigne
James Frey:
collaboration as plantation
Collaboration in the humanities
Yet another review of Antonia Fraser’s
memoir of Harold Pinter
Ann Beattie’s
The New Yorker Stories
Promoting literature on
juice bottle labels
Talking with W.S. Merwin
Merwin interviewed
at the Library of Congress
“To read Muldoon
is to reread Muldoon”
The Big Other’s
Wallace Stevens’ fest
David Biespiel on Wallace Stevens
Larkin in love
Walt Abbott on flarf
Fashionista flarf
Taking off poetry’s clothes
Best books of 2010:
the airport edition
Is the “new” Paris Review any good?
Interviewing Houellebecq in PR
Talking with Gerald Stern
All’s Quietist on the TS Eliot Prize shortlist
Deal clears way for Giller Prize novel
to make it to paperback
Andrew Motion on
Poets of the Great War
Nick Laird reads
Anglo-Saxon poetry in translation
As does Jane Hirshfield
Eliot’s Four Quartets
Refudiate this!
Top words for 2010
Is there a future for Slate?
Spalding Gray’s archives
head to Texas
When Yeats won the Nobel
Chekov’s genius eludes us
Turning Wittgenstein on his head
right-side up
Translation, film & the ESL student
Another Gatsby flick,
this time with DiCaprio
John Cusack is Poe
The trailer for Jane Eyre
Talking with Martin Scorsese
Fifty years of Lee Friedlander
Photography prof
embeds camera in his head
Jack London, Photographer
Nathan Oliveira has died
John Perreault on Paul Thek
Painting by Jack Yeats
sells for ₤415,300
Is contemporary art
“spoiling” Versailles?
Takashi Murakami is no competition
for the Sun King
An unseen Rossetti
goes on display
Avant-garde time capsule
in Polish apartment
Anselm Kiefer @ Gagosian Chelsea
Reassessing the Shanghai Biennale
The politics of “deaccession”
Best prep school museum?
Berlusconi gets it up
for art restoration
A biography of John Cage
Not being Cagey
John Adams on John Cage
Sex, drugs & rock-n-roll
A NY Times Book Review podcast
stretching from Keith Richards to John Cage
Bruce:
getting the world to admire
your spiral notebooks
John Lennon in NYC
Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel
were never lovers
Alfred Corn on Stephen Sondheim
Philip Glass’ new opera:
Kafka’s The Trial
GOP attempt to cut NPR funding
falls short, at least for now
Frederick Law Olmsted
& the campaign for public health
Thurston Moore to teach at Naropa
The sexual politics of
Pee-wee Herman
Does anthropology
have a future?
What is intelligence?
Wittgenstein & Asperger’s syndrome
“Philosophy does not contribute
to our knowledge of the world”
In the UK,
graduate unemployment hits a new high
There is no college cost crisis
iPad “newspaper”
created by Steve Jobs & Rupert Murdoch
Lewis Menand on late night TV
The missing unicorn in NYC
