A history of lighght
§
Taking
The Grand Piano
literally
§
William Gibson:
countering the antibuzz
Node:
website for
a non-existent journal
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Creative writing
& surveillance
after Virginia Tech
§
A sober assessment
of the “crisis”
in newspaper book reviews
Plus
Morris Dickstein
on
the future of criticism
§
A State Department history
of American poetry,
from the problematic
to the completely whack!
§
A wonderful review
of Reed Whittemore’s
memoirs
§
Simon DeDeo
on the
practicalities of blogging
(on not all of which
I agree)
§
Talking with
(and reading)
Ryan Eckes
§
on
Democracy Now!
§
An obit for
Mary Rising Higgins
§
This week’s
New Thing
§
Even tho he was a right winger,
Kerouac drives The New Criterion crazy!
Plus a libertarian
for Kerouac
(note what other book
has its 50th anniversary
this year)
§
Who owns the rights
to
Beckett & Ionesco?
§
James Laughlin
&
Brendan Gill
in conversation
§
§
Whitman’s novel
§
Just saying no
§
Auden’s lost poems
§
There’s going to be
a conference on
Thomas Merton
§
More on
Mrs. Shakespeare
§
Serializing your novel
on Facebook
§
Library tourism
§
Talking with
Ornette Coleman
§
Minimalism
to the max!
§
Damien Hirst’s
cash register
goes bling!
