Joyce Carol Oates writes too many damn books. You write that many and the people just gloss over, their eyes…
One Hour of Television, by Kristina Born
From Shane Jones: Me and Blake Butler are really excited about our first title, ONE HOUR OF TELEVISION by Kristina…
Does the Brain Like E-Books?
Check out this article from the NY Times asking whether “there [is] a difference in the way the brain takes…
Edgar Allan Poe Gets Another Funeral!
According to Wikipedia, On October 10, 2009, Poe received a “do-over” funeral where “actors portraying Poe’s contemporaries and other long-dead…
Thumb novels: Mobile phone fiction
Check out this article about keitai shosetsu, an emergent literary form in Japan, with stories being specifically created for mobile…
Drawn and Quartered: On Gordon Lish’s The Quarterly, Part One
What follows is a blow-by-blow account of the first issue of Gordon Lish’s legendary literary journal The Quarterly. Here I’ll examine stories by Amy Hempel, Tom Spanbauer, Matthew Levine, Chris Spain, Pamela Schirmeister, Yannick Murphy, J.S. Marcus, Darrell Spencer, Kaye Gibbons, Peter Christopher, Janet Kauffman, and Tom Rayfiel; a novella by Jane Smiley; poems by Paulette Jiles, Robert Gibb, John Allman, William Freedman, Jack Gilbert, Ansie Baird, Diane DeSanders, and Harvey Shapiro; and letters by Nancy Lemann, Pagan Kennedy, Harold Brodkey, James Laughlin, Amy Hempel, Patty Marx, Robert Jones, E.J. Cullen, and Dan Duffy; and drawings by Don Nace. I hope to eventually cover every single issue of this incredible journal.
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Upcoming Conference in NYC: “Beyond the Tangled Web”
Via Adam Robinson: FACING PAGES 2009 Statewide Convening Beyond the Tangled Web: Envisioning a Comprehensive Technology Strategy for Your Literary…
Text Off the Page
Text that appears in places other than on a piece of paper basically makes me wet my pants. Maybe it’s…
Big Other Contest #1
Write our slogan and win prizes and internet glory! The very short slogan will run at the top of the…
Fuck the Semicolon
Vonnegut Reissue, so maybe he gets his due? He has his due, folks. Vonnegut’s house is near my house. His…