Joshua Clover, Chris Nealon, & Juliana Spahr:
Poetry & politics
Sigizmund Dominikovich Krzhizhanovsky
In Bahrain,
write a poem, go to prison
Craig Santos Perez:
how to give a reading
Remembering Steve Abbott
as a father
Book of the Year, 2012:
Joe Ceravolo, Mad Angels
PoemTalk: John Wieners
Talking with Garrett Caples
about City Lights Spotlights
Vispo from Susan Sari
200 million Americans
want to publish a book
Jerome Rothenberg on Harold Bloom
Jonathan Mayhew
on Rothenberg’s Bloom
Richard Deming on Susan Howe
Is non-linear
the future of reading?
Talking with Michael Gottlieb
Talking with Charles Alexander
New work from Aaron Shurin
Selling ebooks at $0.99
destroys minds
Is the ebook
just a way station
away from books altogether
to 3D e-narratives?
Lydia Davis
on Ashbery’s Rimbaud
How does Davis approach translations?
Ashbery’s
Where Shall I Wander?
Bolaño’s essays
Into the wilds of
Roberto Bolaño
Mayhew’s Duncan,
Duncan’s Lorca
The vulnerability
of David Foster Wallace
Talking with David Foster Wallace
The impact of English
on world literature
Poetry:
focal point for criticism
as well as praise
Survey:
How long should an author read
at an event?
Karen Finley:
The Reality Shows
Francine Prose
on Naipaul & women
Charles Bernstein & Susan Bee:
Before You Go
Charles Bernstein & David Orr:
separated at birth?
Talking with Cara Benson
Benson on blogging
Cara Benson:
Poetry in the polis?
Allen Ginsberg & Ted Berrigan:
a collaborative postcard
Poet’s Q&A:
Mark Doty & Rae Armantrout
Bill Nelson
on Rae Armantrout’s Money Shot
William Logan
on Richard Wilbur, Yusef Komunyakaa,
Rae Armantrout, Carl Phillips, Les Murray
& Geoffrey Hill
Prosody & autism spectrum disorders
Reading the latest
Lilliput Review
Who is driving
the transition of publishing
to a digital model?
John Locke:
1 million books,
all sold over Kindle
Excerpts from
The Poetry Project’
Artistic Directors’ reading
Rushdie turns
to sci-fi & TV
Salman Rushdie:
the best writing is on TV
Talking with Dale Smith
Bill Murray flies in
for poetry walk
Blake:
The Ghost of a Flea
An illustrated Baudelaire
Maggie Nelson
in The New York Times
Taalam Acey:
I chose to be a poet
when I lost my mind
Ngwao Putswa
vows to win
Presidential Arts Prize
Finding the way of not the way
Are books for charity
really for charity?
Selling Irish e-books into America
Turning books
into
2D barcodes
Talking with Harriet Beecher Stowe
biographer Joan Hedrick
Memoirs are for victims,
fiction for the predators
Board “coup” leads to chaos
in Poets’ Corner
Can The NY Times survive?
Jill Abramson,
the new executive editor
of The New York Times
We’re all literary omnivores now
Has digitization
increased typos?
Every e-book needs a good editor
Specialist bookstores will survive
While other chains shrink,
Foyles expands
The real force behind e-book sales:
romance fiction
Amazon cuts off Arkansas affiliates
to skirt state tax
Kolkata Books,
the largest book market
in the world
Talking with CA Conrad
Charles Olson:
Letters for Origin
(registration required)
UK lit-fests
defy the death of print
If you were dying,
what would you read?
Shakespeare changed everything
Colum McCann wins Impac award
Yale adds prizes for writing
(but not for poetry)
The vagaries of prizes
Rapper turns down
Cambridge (UK) scholarship
for lack of music scene
West Chester looks to griot & rap
for the future of rhyme
For Tony winner
Mark Rylance,
the poem’s the thing
Poem-talk: Nathaniel Tarn
Steinbeck’s son
loses rights to dad’s classics
John Berryman
reading from Dream Songs, 1968
Re: Joyce,
Frank Delaney’s
epic project
to deconstruct Ulysses
reaches episode 50
Walking Ulysses
& a pub-free ride
Ronald Johnson:
Book of the Green Man
(registration required)
Martin Corless-Smith
on the sublime
The Academy of American Poets
celebrates LGBTQ poetry
The best LGBT books of all time
Talking with William Trowbridge
First sci-fi novel in Shona
Essays & poems by Anne Carson
(registration required)
Imre Kertész’ Fiasco
Georges Perec’s
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise?
Solaris
has finally been translated
directly into English
Tom Clark:
flat round
Rupert Loydell
talks about Smartarse
The Waste Land,
the app
Is this the future
of literary teaching tools?
How to future-proof publishing
Stephen Burt:
It’s too much
Pop culture & the anxiety of contamination
Johannes Göransson on contamination
(part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
(part 4) (part 5) (part 6)
Purging the temple of art:
Nazis & poetry
Concentration & poetry
A history of pseudonyms
Decline of the pseudonym
9 reasons to have a pseudonym
Sargon’s dictionary
The Assyrian Dictionary
of the Oriental Institute
of the University of Chicago
Talking with Eliot Weinberger
When bad people
write great books
Vonnegut & the children’s crusade
What it means to be
Eavan Boland
School budgets
hit art programs hard
Burbank cuts library, services
but raises $$ for golf
Google signs deal
to digitize
the British Library
Is your library censoring the net?
Will the home library survive?
How to host
course packs online
legally
Suddenly Akashic has a best-seller
The career arc of an author
Dodie Bellamy:
What is experimental literature?
2 parts of The Watsons
are in NYC at the same time
An X-rated Austen?
Kathy Acker
& the anus
as the center of the brain
In Acker’s closet
Terry Pratchett
starts the process
to end his life
BBC flooded with complaints
about Pratchett documentary
Pratchett defends his position
In a world of Twitter & e-books,
Iowa clings to tradition
The Iowa Writers Workshop
at 75
The Iowa Writer’s Workshop
& popular culture
Dean Young’s collisions
Who ransacked
America’s newspapers?
Forrest Gander’s
The Tinajera Notebook
Keanu’s excellent
haiku adventures
Talking with Mike Shatzkin
Roddy Lumsden’s
Identity Parade:
New British & Irish Poets
Thomas Hardy:
Under the Waterfall
Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
A beat-scene photo gallery
Charlie Plymell in SF & Sacramento
The BBC
& Richard Brautigan
Phyllis Gebauer has died
(obit with an actual photo of Thomas Pynchon)
Gebauer’s collection
of signed Pynchon volumes
heads to UCLA
Talking with
James Thomas Romano
The judge who ordered
Lorca exhumed
John Sayles’
A Moment in the Sun
The Russian
“luxury lit mag”
that does
what Granta, Narrative
& Paris Review
only dream of:
Snob
Gruffalo author
is UK children’s laureate
Talking with Joe Hesch
Franz Wright’s Wheeling Motel
Craig Dworkin’s Dure
45 fragments by Xi Chuan
+ 4 poems
translated by Lucas Klein
Talking with Collin Kelley
The 2011 Arab American Book Awards
The novel isn’t dead
in spite of this argument
Nicholson Baker:
From the Index of First Lines
Ana Božičević’s anti-manifesto
Jane Sprague’s
The Port of Los Angeles
Alan Hollinghurst’s
The Stranger’s Child
Talking with Hollinghurst
China Miéville’s monsters
Junot Díaz on Haiti
The girl who
cast a spell on her rivals
The fight over
Anne Frank’s tree
Mss. page of Keats’ Endymion
Talking with Ron Hansen
Jeffrey Side on nuance
Cynthia Ozick, winging it
Robert Pinsky on PBS NewsHour
Cave Canem Workshops
Where readers just get in the way
Talking with the ABA’s Oren Teicher
Talking with Andrew Paul Nelson
7 poems by Ann Marie Thornburg
A good book for beginners
Grace Cavalieri’s
verse novella
Millie’s Sunshine Tiki Villas
Does Téa Obreht’s Orange Prize
signal a return to fabulism?
The book as art as video:
3 projects from Katya Sanna –
L’Approdo
La Luccicanza
Favolosa
Mong-Lan:
poetry & the tango
Talking with Susan Miller,
former director,
New Langton Arts
Some rare pix
of Tennessee Williams,
Robert Frost &
Hemingway’s home in Key West
Larry Flynt @ home
Woody Allen & Terrence Malick
in the architectural
nostalgia shop
Phonehenge owner is guilty
The best comment
on Phonehenge
is Daniel Pinkwater’s
Big Orange Splot
War photographers:
the shot that nearly killed me
(contains graphic images of death)
Ada Limón:
A mandala for poetics
Steve Evans
on the Stein collection
at SFMoMA
Schindler’s factory
becomes an art gallery
A Walton builds a museum
in Bentonville, Arkansas
twice the size of the Whitney
Tibor de Nagy:
60 years of painters & poets
What went wrong at the Getty?
Chicago art leaders talk,
but is Rahm listening?
Art critic
meets a tough crowd
Tracking Hopper’s light
A major collection of paintings
heads to Stanford
Martynka Wawrzyniak’s
Chocolate 2010
Joan Mitchell, lady painter
New art from Iraq
The performance piece
that may have wrecked
a business
Jean-François Lyotard:
Duchamp’s TRANS/formers
Ben Wilson’s street art
Louis Vuitton’s
Young Arts Project
Bulgarian vandalism
with a pop twist
Artists decorate palazzos
& vice versa
A cornucopia of contemporary art
Can the Seoul
ministry of defense HQ
become an art museum?
Killing the Barnes collection
Terry Gilliam, Jeff Koons et al:
why Magritte
MF Hussain has died
The Picasso of India
Picasso in depth in San Francisco
Picasso hoarders indicted for theft
Painter’s Table:
top ten May posts
Make it newbie:
if modernism was everything,
it wasn’t much of nothing
Justin Timberlake on art
Jack Smith & the aesthetics of camp
in an era of political correctness
At Art Basel
Francesco Clemente
in Frankfurt
Soli Acosta
& the aesthetics of resourcefulness
Max Mathews,
one of the “5 most important” musicians
of the 20th century
Adorno’s string quartets
Remembering Big Bill Broonzy
Gil Scott-Heron saved me
The Wall Street Journal
on Clarence Clemons
Lieberson’s song cycle
becomes his memorial
The Fugs play London
One Ring to rule them all
Coltrane home in danger
11 most endangered
historic places
Doing justice to Morton Feldman
Feldman & poetry
Taking Feldman lying down
Feldman:
3 Voices for Joan La Barbara
Feldman:
For Frank O’Hara (pt. 1)
Singing Frank O’Hara
Tosh talks Frank O’Hara
William Shatner as Frank O’Hara
in Psych
Atlas Shrugged, the movie trilogy
A film with 2 views
of contemporary China,
one thru poetry
The Welcome:
aiding the return of warriors
through poetry
Talking with Aaron Sorkin
Which book adaptations
got the most complaints?
Ian Rickson:
sex, lies & Pinter
Mamet goes shrill
in his move to the right
Mamet
on the anti-Semitism
of British writers
Mamet
on the innocence of Phil Spector
After $70M, 183 previews
& a string of mishaps,
Spiderman opens
to mediocre reviews
What is boring?
Timothy Leary’s archives
go to NYPL
What’s in those archives
(Charles Olson: “I had no sex organ”)
Hitchens on the art of the feud
Progressive Christians
chase the
Wild Goose
The Dalai Lama:
I am a Marxist
A new diary from
Che Guevara
To be
or not to be
Fukushima:
it’s worse than you think
