Record-breaking heatwave here in Pittsburgh. It was 66 yesterday! Woohoo!
Another record-breaker: AWP sold out. While last year I simply walked in and paid at the door, this year the Association of Writing Programs pre-registered 7,000 people for the conference — perhaps because it’s in New York — and will sell no more passes. Even all their volunteer slots are gone. However, Tayari Jones knows a press that could use your help — and will get you in.
Meanwhile, book critics converge on San Francisco to announce the NBCC Awards finalists and hold a few excellent panels on, you know, books and stuff.
Fascinating literary fashion from CAAF at About Last Night.
Was it David Remnick who wrote the New Yorker’s Carver intro?
A fantastic reading list inspired by The Wire. (Maud went to the NY party for the season 5 premiere!)
I don’t live in NY but I do know that the Atlantic Yards development is nightmare of horrifying proportions. The authors who’ve contributed to Brooklyn Was Mine are fighting the good fight; the book’s proceeds benefit a nonprofit trying to preserve the community/
Another little tidbit to add to the simmering fray over the Carver/Lish letters piece in the NYer: The new issue has a letter from 2004 National Book Award winner Lily Tuck calling the piece “unnecessary and counterproductive.” Remnick definitely struck a nerve with a lot of folks with this one.
Hey Pinky — I don’t know if the Brooklyn/Atlantic Yards controversy is as clear-cut as all that. A lot of people support Atlantic Yards, despite some concerns about the financial/corporate motivations, because it brings back the idea of Brooklyn as a *city* (which is what it once was) as opposed to a residential suburb of Manhattan (which is what it is now). The idea of bringing first-class shopping and major league sports teams and top performing arts to downtown Brooklyn has some appeal, and the ones who are most against it tend to be the wealthier residents, the ones who spend a lot of time in Manhattan and don’t see a need for Brooklyn to have its own urban center. Many other Brooklynites welcome the change.
Also, the building is designed by Frank Gehry. Sure, there are valid concerns about the project, and it’s good that people are debating it, but I just can’t see Atlantic Yards as “a nightmare of horrifying proportions”. Just my opinion of course …
Levi – so you’re saying that the less wealthy residents of Brooklyn are the ones who will be utilizing the “first-class shopping” and super expensive tickets to Nets games???
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