It’s practically snowing authors
me, in the snow. It was time for a picture. Winter weather continues. Tonight Sasha Frere-Jones is going to be at Carnegie Mellon (cool!), but if things get horribly sleety…
me, in the snow. It was time for a picture. Winter weather continues. Tonight Sasha Frere-Jones is going to be at Carnegie Mellon (cool!), but if things get horribly sleety…
Recently The New Yorker ran a piece on Raymond Carver and his relationship with editor Gordon Lish. A few things about the piece made me uncomfortable, including its lack of…
Raymond Carver is perhaps the most esteemed short story writer of the latter half of the 20th century. His biography is well-known — an early marriage; a period of dissolution,…
Since Norman Mailer done gone and died on me. He was a misogynist. He was a short, egomaniacal fuck. He was a pain in the ass, full of himself, guilty…
Monday: Stewart O’Nan reads in the evening at Pitt, in the 5th floor room where we have workshop, featuring arching gothic windows and the occasional wintry breeze. Afterwards a few…
The man shows up and starts reading. At least that’s how it worked on Monday, when I blogged that he was coming and then he appeared later that night. O’Nan,…
Dave Eggers returns to Pittsburgh with Valentino Achak Deng. They focused on What is the What, Valentino’s story, and showed slides and video from a trip they took to southern…
La Bloga gets with Junot Diaz, on The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, 10 years in the writing: Books are not people. They are never late to the party….
Flush with his incandescence, happy in all the anticipation of liberty which this Gotterdammerung of a urination was soon to provide, Mailer did not know, but he had already and…
Congrats to Jedediah Berry, one of the accomplices in the legendary AWP bad fashion photo series (Jed’s NOT the guy in the leather duster); his story “Inheritance” is in the…