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Items of note this quarter:
misleading Plath cover
more on Sizemore
book that inspired Dune
rap lyrics database
5 whoa ladies of 19th-cent lit
from Images of the Fixed Stars
some favorite typefaces
Vladislav Surkov's alt-Russia
books to change liberal minds
the first issue of Vogue
Latino art on Google
Lines + Stars broadsides
Ashbery's indispensable poems
Mumbai's 4-month poetry school
a guide to poetic Boston
Blood, Sweat and Pixels
Da Vinci's notebooks online
on hating fantasy maps
on Guy Davenport's prose
remembering Ruth Stone
Mondo 2000 returns
"Once again our paths cross."
MAD magazine look-alikes
Animated science book covers
A new Reichstag fire
sonnets are fascism
I don't feel it is a good fit
Science reveals hidden ms
About Literary North
GoT in Africa
Leonardo's diary now public
Authors who can go f*** off
Breaking news as limericks
#trumpwriteshallmarkcards
A prank on predatory journals
/r/delusionalauthors
Beware of nominalizations!
On POC mentorship
Clancy Sigal, 1926-2017
Men try neuter pen names
Magical transcribers wanted
The Constitution, annotated
Lethem on higher cribbing
In the infinite Ikia
Surviving a residency
A chat with Him Woodring
Virgil Finlay, dark and light
The benefits of doubt
Schiele's angst made sense
Back to Treasure Island
Revelations from Plath letters
Sara Ranchouse book art
Bad robot poetry
Outlook Springs rejects well
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08.22.17: " Friedman is an important American. He is the perfect symbol of our culture of emboldened stupidity." link>> |
08.03.17: Jim Alison on Catherine Sinclair's 1839 novel, Holiday House. link>> |
08.02.17: " I’m mistrustful of a book that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited entirely by children." link>> |
08.01.17: Draw Your Weapons looks at human darkness while celebrating how love, art and connectedness nourish and redeem the spirit. link>> |
07.31.17: A new bio of Mahmoud Abbas aims for objectivity amid the contending perspectives of Middle Eastern politics. link>> |
07.28.17: A round-up of recent recommended fiction from the Balkans. link>> |
07.26.17: Wu He wrote Remains of Life to provide a deep and depoliticized telling of Taiwan's colonial history. link>> |
07.21.17: Alexandra Kulik delves into the delightfully horrible japes of Joe Green's poetry. link>> |
07.19.17: "Range finds the poetic in the colloquial, the past in the present, the transcendent in the immanent." link>> |
07.18.17: A new biography of John Ashbery explains the origin of his taste for ambiguity. link>> |
07.14.17: Anjali Pandey’s study of linguistic exhibitionism in fiction speaks to the future of post-global multilingualism. link>> |
07.13.17: "Like many novels recently penned by North African writers, Tunisian Yankee revisits the awakening of national pride and its brutal repression." link>> |
07.11.17: At Jehat, a reflection on fragmentation in contemporary Moroccan youth poetry. link>> |
07.06.17: It takes guts for a young author to follow ordinary people in the ordinary world in which we actually live. link>> |
06.30.17: The TLS reprints an edited version of a review by J.R.R. Tolkien of Hali Meidenhad, first published in 1923. link>> |
06.29.17: The City Always Wins is an intermittently revealing literary portrait of Cairo, but fails as imaginative fiction. link>> |
06.22.17: The adolescent hero of Nick White’s debut novel confronts repressed memories and the horrors of a Gothic summer camp in the Deep South. link>> |
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08.04.17: Tor.com offers geologic reasons for the messed-up mountains of Middle-earth. link>> |
08.03.17:"While a poem must have social intelligence, poetry needs weird subjectivity." link>> |
08.01.17: Geoff Ryman on the autochthonous rise of African speculative fiction. link>> |
07.25.17: If David Mayhew wants to argue that Congress is the messiest of our governing institutions, who among us would think to disagree? link>> |
07.24.17: Remembering Bill Knott, and reappraising his uncanny, crabbed, surreal poetry. link>> |
07.18.17: "Mice, it turns out, have excellent taste in books." link>> |
07.13.17: "…dispensing honours, correlating plans… "; a poem by Ben Mazer. link>> |
07.12.17: The editors of sixteen American lit mags tell Anis Shivani how they are surviving our era of publishing disruption. link>> |
07.11.17: " I imagine women flying around all over Delhi on magic carpets to avoid unsafe public transport," said the poet. link>> |
07.06.17: In an experimental essay hosted by Partisan Hotel, Mary Margaret Rinebold links art writing, book fairs and the trap of good taste. link>> |
07.04.17: Ryan Ruby met with Natasha Perova in her Moscow apartment to discuss translation, Russian writing since perestroika, and other issues. link>> |
06.28.17: Jon Maniscalco talks with novelist Michael Allan Scott about the influences, personal and artistic, on his work. link>> |
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New Books and
Literary News |
08.09.17: This ebook of essays contains everything Scott Woods has publicly written and published about Prince. link>> |
08.01.17: The Digital Critic airs views on the future of literature in an age of social media, the decline of print, and the commodification of online attention. link>> |
07.31.17: The developers of the Trubadour platform and mobile app aim to increase engagement and interest in poetry. link>> |
07.24.17: The latest update in Merkur's series on sexism at creative writing programs in German universities. link>> |
07.21.17: Libertarian and conservative reviewers are waging an ad hominem campaign against a historian. link>> |
07.17.17: Eyal Sagui Bizawe sees signs that Israelis, at long last, are beginning to read Arabic lit in Hebrew translation. link>> |
07.14.17: "The question isn’t, 'Is print dead?' but rather: What should print do to distinguish itself from digital?" link>> |
07.13.17: New report shows that the EU's Creative Europe cultural funding program has to finance around €2.8m of publishing projects in the UK. link>> |
07.11.17: Mexico's Milenio talks with Goncourt-winning poet Abdellatif Laâbi, now living in exile in Morocco. link>> |
07.07.17: Bushra al-Fadil of Sudan is the first Arab and the oldest recipient this far to win the Caine Prize for African writing. link>> |
07.05.17: Introducing Intercostal, a new literary magazine blending poetry, criticism and commentary, based in Salamanca. link>> |
07.04.17: Jack Collom, pioneer of eco-poetics and adjunct professor at Naropa, has died. link>> |
06.30.17: The mission of Seagull Books in Kolkata, India, is to publish translated writing from around the world. link>> |
06.29.17: Yale digital humanist creates an audiovisual collage showcasing objects related to John Ashbery’s poetry. link>> |
06.23.17: Galway residents share memories of beloved Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. link>> |
06.22.17: This week sees the release of an anthology of poetry written by people who have lived, or are living, as refugees or asylum seekers in Ireland. link>> |
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