Ted Berrigan & Anne Waldman:
Memorial Day
The Paris Review & the CIA
Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘The University Poem’
Shakespeare in Indian prisons
10 feminist poets you should know
Naomi Shihab Nye’s Transfer
A good ‘taste’ of moi
Wanda Coleman, Lewis MacAdams & the rhythms of LA
Joe Safdie on Lewis MacAdams
Talking with Gary Snyder
A ‘total overkill’ biography of Richard Brautigan
John Waters on the road
On the Road is too tame on film
Kerouac’s fascination with Chicano culture
Bernard-Henri Lévi: Kerouac @ the cinema
James Franco: better as Ginsberg than Crane
Beckett’s letters
Pound’s letters to his parents
Robert Creeley on Stein & the New Sentence
Talking with Carlos Fuentes
John Timpane on Fuentes
Fuentes as a hero
Translating Fuentes
Jennifer Scappettone wins the Raiziss / de Palachi
Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence
The Taliban poetry affair
Viktor Shklovsky wants to make you a better writer
Shklovsky & Tao Lin
Backmasking to generate text
Dictionary expansion
3D ©?
Susan Schultz on the economics of poetry
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt files Chapter 11
The shrinking of Houghton Mifflin
Penguin & Macmillan deny price-fixing e-books
The fight to save the U of MO Press
Can big data save trade publishers?
Why is e-book marketing so bad?
The biggest threat to public libraries
What’s the worst library behavior?
Maybe it’s silencing the librarians
Talking with Peter Gizzi
Soon to be home to poetry mathematics: The Battersea Review
Crag Hill’s Digivis poems
Divination through literature
Parataxis as a commie plot
Comma mistakes
Learning to write the MFA poem
The passion of Christa Wolf
Herta Müller: I write to bear witness
Juan Felipe Herrera’s plans as California laureate
Talking with Joyce Meskis
Crystal Good, Appalachia’s future laureate
Talking with Kenny Goldsmith
Philip K Dick: sci-fi philosopher
(part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
To boldly go, but truthfully also
Super sad true habits of highly effective writers
The politically correct neologism
Talking with Leigh White
Alan Hollinghurst: The Booker makes you crazy
The essays of Jonathan Franzen
Talking with Franzen
An obit in the Inky for Paul Fussell
Ranking Jane Austen’s novels
10 questions for Jane Austen
Late Hemingway
Hemingway’s nouns
New Orleans becomes the largest city with no daily paper
3 papers in Alabama cities follow suit
Should newspapers be nonprofits?
Whodunit @ the NY Times
Talking with Franz Wright
The capricious nature of the literary afterlife
The New Yorker starts a book blog
Publishers should be proud
Katerina Vandenberg’s The Alphabet Not Unlike the World
Toni Morrison’s Home
John Cheever @ 100
‘my delight / in wearing white / is due alone / to anthracite’
Jeanette Winterson on teaching creative writing
Dave Eggers on Norman Mailer’s Executioners Song
Barbara Maloutas’ ‘Birds without Glasses’
Talking with Joyelle McSweeney
Talking with Henri Cole
Seeking to restore the glamor of writing
Michael Robbins: Alien vs. Predator
Stanley Fish: What do spoilers spoil?
What is the function of criticism?
John Donne, priest & poet
Stanley Plumly’s ‘Cancer’
Shakespeare in tongues
William Deresiewicz on Kurt Vonnegut
A book club on Twitter
Helper hymns, Holmes & holy light
When an Oulipian (sic) poet is on an erasure kick
Franklin Bruno on Gil Scott-Heron’s Last Holiday
(subscribers only)
Jazz settings for classic poetry
A massacre at the alt-rock café
Doc Watson has died
Guardian obit for Doc
HuffPo on Watson
The Hickory (NC) Daily Record obit
LA Times appreciation of Watson
CNN on Watson
Patti Smith @ 65
A Syracuse film student killed in Syria
Ai Weiwei as a prisoner
Wharton Esherick: ‘the Thoreau of wood’
Sol Lewitt’s garden blooms in Philly
Manhole covers as an art form in Japan
Barry Schwabsky on Stanley Whitney & Jacqueline Humphries
Tadao Cern’s Blow Job
How to justify art theft
Just how the liars are lying
Another slide show of the simulacrum
Critics view the Barnes
Opponents of the theft soldier on
A big beginning for the faux Barnes
Dale Chihuly’s glass house
Frida & Diego in the North of England
A David Hockney bio
The battle over courseware platforms
Alain Badiou: a life in writing
How Roland Barthes gave us the TV recap
Wittgenstein’s intensity
The myth of infatuated Žižekians
Žižek on Europe & the Greeks
Serious philosophical nonsense…for kids
Talking with Drew Gilpin Faust
Jared Diamond: What makes countries rich or poor?
Paul Krugman: how to end the depression
How private equity works: 8 simple steps
Naomi Wolf: behind the war on women
I remember CDs
I remember Brooklyn
Snake handlers rock out
