Poet & performance artist
Sandy Crimmins
has died
§
Harvey Goldner,
”the Bard of Belltown,”
has also died
§
Alzheimer’s kills
Philip Booth
§
Leonard Schwartz’
Cross-Cultural Poetics
radio archives
(over 100 hours
of terrific stuff)
§
Destroying books
as art
§
The San Diego Union-Tribune
folds its Sunday Book Review
§
The audience laughs
while the writer
breaks down in tears
§
Another occasion to cry:
The Last Novel
§
Or,
try it the other way:
80 pages of discussion
concerning humor & poetry
Plus
24 pages of poetry
from the HumPo
list
§
When
(if)
Shakespeare met Cervantes
§
“As a surrealist,
I quite enjoy having dementia”
George Melly is dead
§
A lengthy portrait
of Mayakovsky
§
The politics
of book reviews
§
John Irving
on
Günter Grass
§
Lorraine Wild
& the design of books
§
Modest proposals
for a right-wing
English curriculum
§
Peggy Fox on
Ezra Pound, James Laughlin
& the founding of
New Directions
(PDF)
§
The New York Times
obit
for Mary Ellen Solt
tries
to demonstrate
vispo
in its text
& the Associate Press piece
§
Imagine a review
of Paul Celan translations
that alludes to the work
of Pierre Joris
as an afterthought
§
The silliest
”Great American Novel”
list
I’ve ever read
§
The slam team
from Springfield
§
Terry Eagleton’s
Mikhail Bakhtin
§
San Francisco’s
International Poetry Festival
reflect’s the city’s
beat street roots
§
A hospital
with a poet laureate
§
A profile of
Barry Spacks
§
The impact of metaphor
on scientific theory
(PDF)
§
Hypertext
on a refrigerator door
§
How
not
to start a magazine
§
Early writer’s block
§
Language, Mind & Culture
(PDF)
§
Salman Rushdie,
between East & West
§
Another review
of Carol Muske-Duke’s
”prison (writing worksho) memoir”
§
To whom it may concern
§
Buying David Halberstam’s
apartment
§
Foreword Magazine’s
Book of the Year Finalists,
all 699 of them
§
Who killed the novel?
Tony Soprano!
§
Is selling on the web
devaluing
used & rare books?
§
In Canada,
fears that bookselling
may be a dying industry
§
This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore articles
come from
The OC
& West Hollywood
while in Brentwood,
a bookstore is spared
§
But it’s
”bricks & clicks”
for Detroit
booksellers
§
In Chicago,
they’re arguing
over
which bookstore
is best
§
Banning chains
to save
the independents
§
Pennsylvania libraries
may be endangered
§
If you think
bookstores are hurting . . .
§
Jazz & fiction
§
The latest lament
o’er the demise
of “classical” music
§
The architecture
of Zaha Hadid
§
Frida Kahlo
turns 100
§
Mass MoCA mayhem
§
Is Banksy
Britain’s best?
§
Busting the tag
§
The Chinese ‘Mona Lisa’
§
The dealer who bought
a Raphael
for $325
§
The art bubble
§
Tales of parenting
& the circus
§
Paris Fashion Week
& here
§
Flickr’s
censorship problems
in Germany
& elsewhere
§
Scorsese’s way
