The poetry of Solidarity Park

Life in Taksim Square

One writer freed,
others in jeopardy in Turkey

Soluble Personhood:
on (and in)
Julian Assange, Leslie Scalapino
& Lucas De Lima

Talking with Rae Armantrout

Michael Redhill on Margaret Avison

25 things to know
about sexism & misogyny
in writing & publishing

Dedicating Huffstickler Green

The oldest book in the USA

Philip Pullman:
pay the author for
digital library loans

The library at Gitmo

The pen in the pen

Frank O’Hara’s Poems Retrieved

Jane Austen,
the queen of modern slang

Talking with Chimamanda Ngozi Aidichie

On writing: Anita Dolman

This is just to say
WCW’s poem
has become a Twitter meme

Alice Kober & Linear B

The Story of Spanish

On writing: Amanda Earl

Todd Swift on Charles Bernstein

‘Secular avant-garde poet’s
most Jewish work’

The Judith Butler Footnote

On writing: rob mclennan

A last interview with
the late Iain Banks

Bloomsday & the gloves of love

Yet another poetry volume
focusing on Billy the Kid

The staggering poetic voice of
Ed Lahey

The graphic fiction of
Virginia Woolf & Quentin Bell

A trinity of languages
in Bosnia

Rindfleischetikettierungs-überwachungsaufgaben-übertragungsgesetz

Can Third World war tales
be marketed as American love stories?

Natasha Trethewey
to be reappointed as PLOTUS

Talking with Trethewey

Columbian poet
to sell testicles for $20K
to fund trip to Europe

15 questions for Larry Sawyer

Getting to know Neil Gaiman

Gaiman to take
social media sabbatical

Complete this
Neil Gaiman story

Sons of the poets:
Hartley Coleridge
(part 1) (part 2)

B&N bungles Nooks Snap rollout

BookScout, the app

Apple exec
defends e-book pricing
@ trial

Self-published texts
account for 12% of e-book sales

Starting an indie bookshop

The only
Spanish-speaking used bookstore
in NYC
(where 2M people speak Spanish)

New CIA deputy director
used to own Baltimore bookstore

Another bookstore in La Jolla
with some CIA heritage

Russia to spend $100M
to help rescue book industry

The print shop
where obsolete tech
will never die

Kafka @ the NSA

Chinese classics in English

From zero to well-read
in 100 books
(including The Da Vinci Code & 50 Shades of Grey)

DC writers’ homes:
203 writers, 228 homes, 1 city

Michael Boughn on Ray Bradbury

A William Logan poetry chronicle
is a thing to behold

Kerouac tours in Lowell

The genetic edition of
Ashbery’s Skaters

Odessa: city of writerly love

Joyland is boy land

A Guardian obit of Yoram Kaniuk

Remembering Kaniuk

Locating queer lit, then & now

Hidden vispo gems
in a donation in Bury, Lancashire

Frank Wilson on Gerald Stern

2 books by James Salter

Want to learn to think?
Read fiction!

Jill Magi:
from Labor

Talking with Magi

John Horne Burns,
the great gay novelist you’ve never read

How to read a novelist:
Jeffrey Eugenides

Talking with Charles Baxter

Dumbing down
what kids read

Auden’s juicy diary appears
& just as quickly goes away

Report from the West Chester Conference

Ed Markowski’s treeee

Who fucked Desdemona?

Lanny Quarles on Manfred Mohr
& then a lot more

Why we sign
emails with Thank You

Writing & fear

Agee, before he was famous

Garrison Keillor’s bookshop

UK art groups warned
they face a total loss of funding
but get away with 8% cuts

The book art of Karen Green

Susan Bee: Criss Cross

PetroKoch:
an art project for the Met

Censorship is wrecking
Australian art

A photo gallery of Oakland
(my maternal grandmother was born
directly across the street
from that last locale, 1897)

Thomas Nozkowski
&/or Philip Guston

James Turrell @ LACMA

Knitting a sweater for
the Andy Warhol bridge

Art Basel opens
in a time of turbulence

The recent work of Mark Greenwold

Ai Weiwei
contains multitudes
or vice versa

Matthew Barney’s drawings

Clementine Hunter’s Louisiana

George Lucas
pitches museum in SF’s Presidio
to house his collection

Talking with Julie Heffernan

It’s a compliment to deface the queen

Art work bombs in Iowa City

How diverse is the Venice Biennale?

Shock of the View:
the tour of the SS Hangover
in Venice

$$ talks in Venice

The Russian pavilion

Into the pixel

The carvings of Susan Hagen

Remembering Dash Snow

Cats:
from the Egyptians to Flux Factory

Denver’s
blue horse of the apocalypse

Who killed Kodak?

Identity & repair

Google’s salute
to Maurice Sendak

Where to get
post-Stalinoid surrealism?

David Mamet:
six flops in a row

Spielberg:
the end of Hollywood
is near

Ellen Moody:
which film adaptations work?

Joni Mitchell speaks

Pussy Riot: the documentary

Fatai Rolling Dollar has died

Restoring Cherubini’s opera

Suit seeks to strip
Happy Birthday
of its ©

Performing ‘in the zone’

Peter Martins:
30 years @ the NYC Ballet

Keith Roberts becomes ballet master
@ American Ballet Theater

Talking with Irina Kolpakova

What does it mean to be
China literate?

Architectural mimicry in contemporary China

MOOCs & the future of humanities

Myths about MOOCs

Do MOOCs threaten faculty ©

Turmoil over reportedly fudged PhD
swamps the American Academy
of Arts & Sciences

Rebecca Solnit:
The art of not knowing where you are

Derrida’s puppet

The teeny tiny galaxy of Segue 2

Time is real it says here