#AuthorFail is a new column at BigOther. For the details on how to submit, check here. The column looks for instances that bury achievement and redemption and genius and artistic growth and special-ness beneath the crushing failure that often constitutes the material experience of art making and so runs counter to the individual myth(s) which [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Charles Bukowski’
Expose This: Paul Beatty’s Slumberland
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annalemma, Bob Dylan, Charles Bukowski, Christopher Heavener, Gore Vidal, Kevin Young, Kwame Dawes, Langston Hughes, Lou Reed, Paul Beatty, Slumberland, W.E.B. DuBois on January 28, 2010 | 6 Comments »
A lot can go down in a week. Last Thursday I read a blog post by Annalemma editor, Christopher Heavener about Paul Beatty’s Slumberland (read that post HERE). I was intrigued because of the mention of two of my favorite contemporary writers, Chabon and Lethem, but also because of Heavener’s passion for Beatty’s work. Working [...]