Seven years, 22,000 miles out of Eden
Next month Paul Salopek, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, will begin a seven year, 22,000 mile journey across Africa, Asia, the United States, and South America. The journey, which Salopek… Read more »
Behold: a future of print and digital reading
Try as they might, tech companies have a hard time being objective when it comes to the future of books and reading. Many of them have been digging graves for… Read more »
Clips from Richard Moore’s “USA: Poetry”
Last weekend, Ron Silliman directed readers of his blog to the below clip of Frank O’Hara, which was included in “USA: Poetry,” a 12-part television program from 1966 produced by Richard… Read more »
“A journal with its finger on the pulse …”
Novelist Christopher Boucher, the author of How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, published by Melville House in 2011, is also a full-time faculty member at Boston College and managing editor… Read more »
Worship this way or I’ll kill you: Playboy’s interview with George Carlin
George Carlin, who died of heart failure at the age of 71 in 2008, was the envy of every other “comedian’s comedian.” He was respected among his peers, but he… Read more »
Look out world, it’s time for the Twitter Fiction Festival
It’s official: Twitter is hosting a fiction festival. According to the Times’ Arts Beat blog, the festival runs for five days, and features “two dozen published and neophyte authors from… Read more »
Thanksgiving leftovers: A reading guide
Not sure if it’s a tryptophan hangover, but this whole holiday thing has got me feeling a little behind, unable to catch up. And it seems there’s no shortage of… Read more »
Thanksgiving lesson: Harry Houdini on how to address a crowd
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Chances are at some point this week you will have the opportunity to speak to a larger than normal group of people. Be it family, friends, or… Read more »
What’s up with Franz Wright?
For the past week or so Franz Wright has been ranting on Facebook about MFA programs and the overall lack of talent currently inhabiting the national poetry circuit. By Wright’s… 2 / Read more »
Is Philip Roth’s retirement for real?
As has now been widely reported, Philip Roth is done with writing. In an interview conducted in his upper west side home last week and published yesterday in The New… Read more »