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Items of note this quarter:
Time-lapse of Venice
Rediscovering Hermann Adler
The USA is no more
A foreword to Dialogos
Irish poets of today
Here Comes Everipedia
Five complaints from Madrid
Girls' Adventures of Long Ago
The battle for Sanskrit
Videos of medieval bookmaking
Kinnell contra Deconstruction
The cover for Sourdough
A punctuation vigilante
Burgess slang notes found
The Bob sestina
Is your dictionary wrong?
Cigale translating Guschin
Bob Dylan's Nobel lecture
Omni archive now online
Spon-con for Maine lit culture
Zahhak pop-up book
Archambeau on Bourdieu
Arrested for poetry
Free Shakespeare web course
Sonnet cognitive poetics
Literary arts audio archive
The Arts Fuse Mentorship
Adroit Journal, Issue 21
"A Ticket to Write"
Chhetri's "Reclamation"
Honey & Wax competition
Typewritten animation
Back to the mixed-up files
Gorgeous Cthulhu
Booksellers trump Ivanka
What Latin sounded like
Great Wikipedia of China
Why there's no Jewish Narnia
Writing better won't help
Science paper browser helper
Her favorite thing is monsters
Baghdad's wheeled bookshop
Translation slays dragons
A Nazi-punching syllabus
Here comes Liartown
How libraries clean books
Best novel/poetry of 2017?
Pick books for the vault
An English/Farsi Hamlet
A book is a start-up
Cavafy in English accents
A terrarium of language
A new Manhattan Project
New directions in Thai theatre
Quartz on sensitivity readers
Jan Schomburg's debut novel
"We also have anti-fear"
Stix Hiscock, Hugo nominee
An appraisal of lit crit
Adonis awarded PEN prize
Doyle dons Stevenson's voice
Wilde leaves UCLA
After the death of the book
Happy 100th, Leonora C.
African kid lit art award
Monuments and memory
R.I.P. João Gilberto Noll
Whitman's daily routine
A simple postscript
Contra schoolbook publishers
On a yellowed Bible
Abusing the apprentice
Trump's fictional America
Queen of Air, a film poem
Abu Dhabi book fair schedule
Right Hand Pointing #109
Entrancing bookstore tunnel
Michael Collins, midnight writer
Beautiful Losers launch
Books Alive 2017
Didion at home in 1977
Word avalanches & holorimes
Poems in Tolkein's voice
Literary subscription boxes
And so we beat on
Four collections with feeling
Introducing Bovy's Law
Trump inspires! (Limericks.)
Carter bio extract
Poetry after Shoah
The World of Words podcast
Story: "The Last Novelist"
For sale: Strand Hotel & Bar
Make Spain great again
"Have You Got Any Castles?"
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06.20.17: Jamey Hecht reviews a clutch of three chapbooks from Hollyridge Press. link>>
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06.19.17: "An honest endeavor to chronicle the few highs and many lows of the Dems’ effort to retain the White House." link>> |
06.16.17: Reviewer unsurprised that writers in the Indian sub-continent seek to redress the balance in accounts about the British did there. link>> |
06.19.17: "His name itself is a power"; an 1888 commentary on Michel Angelo, his art and era, from Blackwood's. link>> |
06.14.17: Grace Cavalieri's May 2017 round-up review of poetry publications. link>> |
06.09.17: At a time when the meaning of American greatness is in question, a student of the classics looks back to O’Connor's The Athens of America. link>> |
06.08.17: Anjali Nerlekar’s new history is rich with depictions of the Bombay literary scene of the post-1960s period. link>> |
05.26.17: "In five symmetrical acts, the arc of Dimitrov's bicoastal book lifts like a plane from the earth." link>> |
05.25.17: Joan Naviyuk Kane, author of Milk Black Carbon, is one of a "remarkable generation of younger Alaska writers." link>> |
05.24.17: Paul Byrnes reviews Pablo Larrain's fabulous fantasy biopic about Pablo Neruda. link>> |
05.22.17: Everything in Tóibín's retelling of the Oresteia, House of Names, "glows with the special radiance of antiquity." link>> |
05.19.17: In Augustown, Kei Miller suggests that everything to know about human beings can be found in the tiny parish of St. Andrew, outside Kingston. link>> |
05.18.17: The Gray House, Mariam Petrosyan's 800-page debut novel written over eighteen years, is finally available in English. link>> |
05.17.17: "Books like Nobody Killed Her are a striking and important reminder that it is the arts that keep us human." link>> |
05.10.17: Lital Levy's Poetic Trespass, newly in paperback, examines the work of Jews who write in Arabic and Palestinians who write in Hebrew. link>> |
05.09.17: Burnett's edition of Larkin is not the first or only, but it is a supreme example of the art of scholarly editing. link>> |
05.04.17: In Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, "refugees escape through surreal dark doors that transport them to real places." link>> |
04.27.17: "The scope and scale of Capitalism… invite comparison with Marx’s Capital itself." link>> |
04.26.17: Ryne Hager reviews stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, after whom Japan's greatest literary prize was named. link>> |
04.25.17: Mary Germaine reviews Soundings, essays and responses to the work of Massachusetts poet Melissa Green. link>> |
04.24.17: Looking back at a uniquely dialogical review of George Kalogeris' Dialogos. link>> |
04.21.17: " Starr’s story echoes the real-life narratives…ignored by the news when it comes to police shootings of POC." link>> |
04.17.17: The Locofo Chaps series proves that "politically-oriented" poetry need not be didactic or banal. link>> |
04.13.17: "Rarely do first books feel so in control of their subject matter and in their understanding of the speaker’s self." link>> |
04.12.17: "If you read it, your exhaustion might be rewarded with a… masochistic joy." link>> |
04.07.17: The Dictator's Dilemma aims to explain why China hasn't collapsed, despite the tensions between political risks and the strain of economic growth. link>> |
04.04.17: Norwich's history of four early modern rulers displays the skill of an able storyteller. link>> |
04.03.17: Anis Shivani's comments on American poetry in an "Age of Constriction" remain relevant more than a decade later. link>> |
03.31.17: "Beauty in their offset"; Al Kratz on the characters of Alice Kaltman's Staggerwing. link>> |
03.30.17: " Kaminski creates a boundless repository for our… ever-shifting experiences of the present moment." link>> |
03.28.17: Stories in new antho of Iraqi sci-fi show how imagination feeds resistance. link>> |
03.27.17: "Jewels of sonic invention" in new translations of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. link>> |
03.21.17: "Jamison’s book isn’t a biography", but rather a look at Lowell's genius and mania. link>> |
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Excerpts, Features
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06.20.17: What if what we teach as plot is yet another result of the Western project of the individual, and is not representative of how most of us actually experience causality? link>> |
06.16.17: This is about the confluence of poetry, Paterson, and Patricia Jones (winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize). link>> |
06.15.17: CNN talks with Seth Abramson, the lawyer, poet and professor whose analysis points to Trump's corruption. link>> |
06.12.17: "I write for purely selfish reasons"; a conversation with darkly comic novelist and storyteller Brian Alan Ellis. link>> |
06.09.17: Read Onaiza Drabu's ongoing coverage of South Asian poetry in the Daak blog. link>> |
06.08.17: A trio of new poems by the Boston-based writer and scholar Meg Tyler. link>> |
06.07.17: "I now possess two things: a sheaf of poems that I am deeply invested in, and a desire to share these poems with the wider world." link>> |
06.02.17: Reading Seamus Heaney's poetry around Galway Bay, and thinking about transportation of the spirit. link>> |
05.29.17: Baloch literature as a repository of wisdom, knowledge, love and romanticism. link>> |
05.26.17: Book cover goals? "One gobsmackingly clever idea executed with awe-inspiring skill." (h/t Burn Magazine). link>> |
05.25.17: In the autumn issue of Meanjin, Leah Swann talks with Ben Okri about the uses of enchantment. link>> |
05.24.17: Arundhati Roy's second book is "a densely populated contemporary novel in the tradition of Dickens, Tolstoy, and García Márquez." link>> |
05.19.17: Marta Chudolinska discusses the 'zines she and her colleagues are making openly available to everyone through Shared Shelf. link>> |
05.17.17: Marc Estrin tells of "the collaboration and dispute that transforms a first draft into a published work." link>> |
05.16.17: Later-in-life debut novelist Laura McBride discusses the art of spinning stories. link>> |
05.15.17: "It's easier to hire a journalist and teach them content marketing than to teach a content marketer to do journalism." link>> |
05.12.17: In this talk, Tom Shippey explores sources of literary creativity in myth, fairy-tale, and modern fantasy. link>> |
05.11.17: The science of poetical pleasure, as reported in an article published last month. link>> |
05.06.17: Heretics! by father-and-son team Steven & Ben Nadler tells of the 17th-century thinkers who fell afoul of the church. link>> |
05.05.17: Writers of color get asked to address identity, not craft. Enough omission! Here's De-canon's long list of POC writers talking nut-and-bolts. link>> |
05.04.17: Nearly twenty years on, let's look back at Lex Williford's urging for "a more open, democratic workshop." link>> |
05.03.17: Of orphan works, universal libraries, fairness hearings, and the death of the Google Books Search Amended Settlement. link>> |
05.02.17: "What editors want shouldn't be a secret; here's how to pitch Fusion." link>> |
04.28.17: A lyrical travelogue by physician and poet Uzo Dibia visiting literary Chile. link>> |
04.26.17: "Celebrating the song and the singer is part of Zeina’s resistance to claim back the beauty of the Arab world." link>> |
04.25.17: The Lofoco Chaps poetry project is sending bagfuls of chapbooks to Trump, c/o The White House. link>> |
04.24.17: Cormac McCarthy on language, with the same type of rigor Robert Graves brought to his study of history and myth. link>> |
04.21.17: Hannah Macauley-Gierhart on the complicated reality of gender bias in the realms of writing and publishing. link>> |
04.19.17: In this micro-chapbook, Zachary Bos confesses to a poetic preoccupation with Trump. link>> |
04.17.17: Common errors seen in American children's books with South Asian content. link>> |
04.14.17: Borges, most important writer of the 20th cent. link>> |
04.13.17: A defense on the possibility of world-building, or, how and why to write realistic aliens and magic. link>> |
04.12.17: Critic and scholar Christopher Ricks on James's "The Modern Warning." link>> |
04.04.17: Tariq Ali argues Lenin’s love of literature helped to shape the Russian Revolution. link>> |
03.31.17: Droll lines to redirect a current climate of doomsday logic; poems by Gregory Lawless. link>> |
03.29.17: Photos of vintage book preservation, at the Smithsonian Libraries blog. link>> |
03.28.17: "To live in Trump’s America is to live in a world that is stranger than fiction." link>> |
03.24.17: "The myth of the Writer is that aloneness is inherently literary"; more in SRL. link>> |
03.23.17: Brittle Paper's round-up of recent must-reads for an African literary experience. link>> |
03.22.17: From 2014, an interview with Dennis Maloney about translation, editing, and forty years of White Pine Press. link>> |
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New Books and
Literary News |
06.19.17: Matthew Zapruder wonders if the intuitive, associative powers of a good poem fail to connect with readers who have been taught about poetry all wrong. link>> |
06.16.17: In 2014, Vice took a look at how Tunisians poets were fighting free speech limitations with slam performances. link>> |
06.15.17: Sheezy Bo Beezy and Gabrielle Knox, co-founders of Detroit Poetry Society, are profiled in the Metro Times. link>> |
06.13.17: Thom Young's social media trolling is the Emperor's New Clothes of pop poetry in the modern moment. link>> |
06.09.17: What to do now that the Czech Ministry of Culture has cancelled grant funding to a number of lit mags. link>> |
06.08.17: College student, unhappy about profane and pro-LGBTQ content on the syllabus, asks court to change her grade from an F to an A.. link>> |
06.07.17: The inaugural issue of UConn's journal New Poetry in Translation has landed. link>> |
06.05.17: Jason Bayani explores the lives of Pinoy immigrants through poetry and story. link>> |
06.01.17: The Boston Globe's Dorchester printing plant, finally, goes dark. link>> |
05.31.17: Indie publishing house Wave Books "rides the Pulitzer wave." (Get it?) link>> |
05.30.17: Scholars studying carbon paper in an old notebook discover two unknown poems by Sylvia Plath. link>> |
05.25.17: Nicaraguans pay posthumous tribute to Carlos Rigby, who championed oral poetry for the people. link>> |
05.24.17: Chinese broadcast station CCTV has launched "The Voice"-style reality competition for amateur poets. link>> |
05.23.17: Anthology of translated Persian poetry sheds light onto Iranian culture. link>> |
05.19.17: Move over, Big 5 publishers. Indie houses aren’t going anywhere! Watch out for a Stalking Horse. link>> |
05.18.17: US House of Representatives votes to remove copyright powers from the Librarian of Congress and give them to Trump. link>> |
05.17.17: Props and big ups to Julia Fleming, 12-year-old winner of an Alabama state literature title! Keep writing, kiddo. link>> |
05.15.17: Everyone should expand beyond the Anglo-centric world, and dig into the writings of Mexico's Juan Rulfo. link>> |
05.12.17: President of Ireland meets with Duolingo reps, thanking them for their role in helping users connect with Gaelic language learning. link>> |
05.10.17: Erika was cataloging in the archives when she noticed an old, double-sided sheet stamped with blackletter type… link>> |
05.08.17: Many editors get their publishing start as members of the yearbook staff. Is Jostens scamming schools? link>> |
05.05.17: Tanzania President John Magufuli, intolerant of press criticism, is further limiting freedom of the press. link>> |
05.04.17: This group of Mumbai-based spoken word performers is creating a stir. link>> |
05.01.17: A report on the recent activities, growth and successes in the poetry culture of Trinidad and Tobago. link>> |
04.27.17: Zapater calls for a poetry "that is read on paper; it seems a little improper to read it on a screen." link>> |
04.25.17: Writers and creators in Zimbabwe are suffering losses to book piracy. link>> |
04.24.17: AmazonCrossing "has in a short time become the most prominent interpreter of foreign fiction into English." link>> |
04.21.17: Homeland Security has authorized the release of the list of manuscripts reported stolen from the Archivio di Stato in Venice in the 1950s. link>> |
04.19.17: Princeton University will name two campus spaces after black laureates. link>> |
04.18.17: What to expect at FILBo 2017, this year's Bogotá International Book Fair." link>> |
04.14.17: Florida performers celebrate banned books with burlesque routines. link>> |
04.13.17: "If you read it, your exhaustion might be rewarded with a… masochistic joy." link>> |
04.12.17: How are professionals in children's publishing talking about Trump? link>> |
04.11.17: New book tells the "secret" story of African-American Army unit captured and slaughtered in WWII. link>> |
04.10.17: PW polls publishing professionals to ask if they think the industry is too liberal. link>> |
04.07.17: An MFA student tells of being reduced to a mere sexual prospect by her instructor, "his beady eyes half hidden." link>> |
04.05.17: Some of the numbers from Ben Blatt's statistical analysis of the classics, bestsellers, and our own writing. link>> |
04.04.17: SFF.net, a long-time haven for fans of sci-fi and fantasy, is closing shop. link>> |
04.03.17: Korean novel sparks online debate about "parasite moms" and "meat shields." link>> |
03.31.17: A rediscovered novel revives the forgotten history encompassing Harlem writers, communism, Russophobia, and black nationalism. link>> |
03.30.17: "Gender gap in fiction writing is shrinking, but women still seek recognition." link>> |
03.29.17: Found Poetry Review is closing shop, but the editors are moving on to Container. link>> |
03.27.17: How investigators got Dr. Fraud on the editorial boards of numerous predatory open-access journals. link>> |
03.23.17: Until Friday, Verso's new history of direct action in the US is available for 40% off. link>> |
03.22.17: Yunus Emre Institute and French National Library team up to preserve and digitize Ottoman manuscripts. link>> |
03.21.17: The spring issue of Rattle features poets who have worked in agencies including the EPA, the FDA and the CIA. link>> |
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