Talking with
Christian Bök
§
Charles Simic
is the new
poet laureate
of the United States
§
Digital lit
from a non-avant
perspective
§
13 ways
of looking at
an electronic blackbird
§
Interviewing
Douglas Brinkley
about
Jack Kerouac
Brinkley’s edition of
Kerouac’s road novels
leaves out
Visions of Cody
&
This Railroad Earth
Unrolling the scroll
(& check out the other
YouTube
selections of Kerouac,
especially this)
§
Over 1,000 pages
by or about
John Tranter:
here,
here
& here
§
Talking with Dodie Bellamy
about inhabiting
Kathy Acker
§
A profile of
Victor Segalen
§
Bookslut
reviews
The City Visible
§
Poetry vs. Parnassus
(may require subscription)
§
Black sci-fi
§
The New Writings Ventures
shortlists
includes a performance poet
from Bangladesh
§
Recording of an interview
with Martín Espada
§
Russell Baker
on the end of
newspapers
§
Newsroom
of the future?
§
The latest
”save the newspaper
book review”
piece
§
Sven Birkerts
on why blogging
won’t save
literary culture
§
A new model
for a university press
Plus more
on the Ithaka Report
on university publishing
for a digital age
§
Administrative shenanigans
put New College
at risk
§
A book series
focused on
Native American poets
§
Athol Fugard
in exile
§
Vernon Reid
on
Sekou Sundiata
§
The memoirs of
Wole Soyinka
§
Remembering
Abdullah Hamud Humran
§
Trakl’s
”Song of Kaspar Hauser”
& Scott Horton on
translating Trakl
§
JK Rowling:
what’s next
§
Harry Potter
& the rest of the book business
§
Can laser printers
cause cancer?
§
“The Great Curmudgeon”
§
The “world’s worst poet”
§
The “lost poems”
of Joe DiMaggio
§
Phillip Lopate:
Adapting fiction to film
§
Andreas Huyssen
on the secret of
Günter Grass
§
Robert Pinsky
on
Wislawa Szymborska
§
Used books
are a
buyer’s market
§
The NEA
gets a new
literature director
§
There’s no quietude
like Irish Quietude
unless it’s
Scotch
§
As distinct from the
”Raunchy, provocative poetry
forged amid the
sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll era”
of New Zealand’s boomer poets
§
Poets & Writers’
calendar of grant deadlines
§
At Antioch,
the president resigns
& calls for an independent board
§
The First Word
§
The role of culture
in American history
§
Priming the unconscious
§
Literacy & life expectancy
§
Join the fight
to save the Barnes
§
Guggie director Lisa Dennison
going to the dark side
§
Schjeldahl’s Courbet
§
More on the suicides
of Theresa Duncan
& Jeremy Blake
