2011
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When Criticism Becomes Disrespect
At The Book Beast, Sean Manning wonders why The New York Times Book Review “would review his memoir about his mother’s terrible illness in such a snarky and dismissive way.”
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The H.D. Book: A Clarion Call for all Artists and Writers
In school I took a class on female poets and was instantly taken with the poetry of H.D., especially her later work Trilogy, a savage and mythic poem about rediscovering meaning in the ruins of war. One of the founding…
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“Will he regret this tattoo someday? No way.”
Craig Morgan Teicher of Publishers Weekly tracks down our newly inked managing editor at AWP.
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Amy Bergen: The Last Book I Loved, The Interrogative Mood
You could read this book about three hundred times and not get bored. “Are you given comfort or made nervous by ball bearings?… Do you tolerate speech impediments in newscasters?… Is there any hope? Do we need galoshes?… If there…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Feeling kind of arty today. Pollution as installation art. Sam Shaw’s Intimate Icons. San Rocco is a magazine about architecture. This week in botanical sculptures. These pictures of subway cars being dumped into the Atlantic are the best thing I’ve…
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A Super Bowl Preview for People Who Don’t Know Football
Once a year, an awful lot of people are forced to pretend to care about football.
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Broke? Tired of Joyce Carol Oates? Go to the Fake AWP!
Breaking news from the world of AWP and everything associated with it: “To provide a haven for those either too broke, too busy, or too disillusioned (with the fact that really it ought to be AWWP, jeez) to attend the…
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Percival Everett on Franzen, Sexism and The Great American Novel
“I do not believe that apparent authoritative literary voices of validation would ever make such a grand claim about a novel written by a woman. I say this because I believe there are many novels by women that are about…
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Alaa al Aswany and the Egyptian Uprising
“Aswany has participated in the protests with a passion. He will will write a book about the events still unfolding here: ‘It has been a unique experience not to read about history but to live inside history,’ he told The…
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Mary Roach Talks Coca-Cola and Writing Habits
“I love that discussion about Coca-Cola spending $450,000 to have Coke in space because carbonation is not lighter up there. Everything weighs the same. The gas stays in the middle, it doesn’t rise to the top, so they spent $450,000…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
It’s Verizon iPhone day! It’s not off to a smooth start, with website errors, data throttling, and disappointing download speeds being reported. And, AT&T is pushing back with better data deals. Hacktivist group Anonymous joins the Mideast fray, taking down…