Thursday, a good a day as any
Why yes, it’s national poetry month! Jeff samples Jack Butler. Levi has a speed poetry report, featuring apperances by Paul Muldoon and Brad Leithauser. Bud’s got a lovely animated version…
Category Archives: online
Read this! LBC announces spring pick
The LitBlog Coop announces its spring 2007 Read This! pick today: Alan DeNiro’s debut short story collection, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead. I was the nominator, so…
The ways word gets around
Booksquare talks to Harper Collins’ Senior VP of Global Marketing Strategy and Operations about the publishers online initiatives. Included is this pearl from Booksquare herself: Authors need to stop seeing…
Hello hello
After almost a year in my MFA program, I haven’t heard quite enough talk like this: brian evenson says: I don’t think that writing should be doing anything in particular,…
Where the hell I’ve been
Say hello to the debut issue of Hot Metal Bridge! The new literary magazine edited by MFA students at Pitt launches today; I’ve been crouched behind, working to chuck it…
For the world is full of blogs and I must go to class
It’s starting to look like the Tournament of Books has been scooped by Oprah. Oh, the humanity. Larry Brown lives in a new collection of interviews. How can blogs count…
I’d like to bonk Sasha Frere-Jones on the head
…with Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day. And that’ll including the full weight of the 785 pages he did not read before deciding against it in the Morning News Tournament of…
Being moved by art
Today Gloria Fisk writes about Orham Pamuk’s role in her move to Turkey in n+1; her students aren’t nearly as charmed by him. Her essay will conclude tomorrow. A work…
Back to 2007
As always, Sarah Weinman does a bang-up roundup of the weekend’s book reviews. Of note: Jim Ruland on Jamestown — “a wild, violent, mordantly hilarious retelling of how the first…
1927 starts tomorrow
Look out, the flapper MP3s are coming. More about the 1927 blogathon here.
