Before the Nobel Prize for Literature is announced, judge takes a moment to slam American authors
The 2014 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature will be revealed on Thursday but before a new name is chosen, there’s just enough time for a bit of controversy… Read more »
Major literary holidays other than Read an eBook Day
Americans take their holidays seriously. Just look at the orgy of barbecuing that occurs on Labor Day, the orgy of turkey consumption that occurs on Thanksgiving, or the orgy of… Read more »
MFA vs LDN: the “viral contagion” of creative writing courses in Britain
The publishing industry was yesterday coming to terms with a fact many of us have known to be true for quite some time now: there are a hell of a… 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 »
How much does The New Yorker pay its poets?
Not much, as it turns out. According to a New York magazine feature by Rachel Friedman, The New Yorker pays just $460 for a 36-line poem. Does anyone pay more?… 4 / Read more »
Ever the bomb thrower, on Saturday the Huffington Post published the latest long and thoughtful grenade lobbed by Anis Shivani (also published in the fall edition of Boulevard), this one comparing modern… 2 / Read more »
Essayist Elif Batuman here takes aim at MFA programs in a London Review of Books piece titled “Get a Real Degree.” The essay, a review of Mark McGurl’s The Program… 2 / Read more »
“I’ve been following the MFA Melee/Fight/Argument over at MobyLives,” writes Robert Gray in a new commentary on Fresh Eyes. It’s prompted him to a “minor rant” about when “I dipped… Read more »
A young poet who won “the nation’s largest undergraduate literary prize last year”—the $56,169 Sophie Kerr Prize—“has been charged with possession of marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms with intent to sell… Read more »
The Foetry attack on the University of Iowa for the way it hands out its fiction and poetry awards “is really taking off,” reports Scott Jaschik in an Inside Higher… Read more »