June 2012
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The Next Letter In The Mail: D. A. Powell
Our next Letter In The Mail, going out later this week, is from poet D. A. Powell!
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Thanks, MetaFilter
MetaFilter linked to Antonia Crane’s Paying to Play: Interview with a John. We love you back!
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Antigonick
Anne Carson’s newest book is Antigonick, a daring, inventive translation of Sophocles’ Antigone. Like Carson’s last book, Nox (which came in the form of a poetry filled, accordian-folded scrapbook of sorts), Antigonick plays extensively with the conventions of narrative form, translation,…
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Notable San Francisco 6/11-6/17
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 6/11: Behavioral economist Dan Ariely returns to Booksmith for more fascinating revelations about counter intuitive human behavior, this time with The Honest Truth About Dishonesty. Free 7:30, Booksmith. Tuesday 6/12: The Center for the…
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Why, Zombies, Why?
After the recent resurgence in talk about zombification in the media last week, Kristin Rawls of AlterNet breaks down our country’s obsession with the undead and the possibility it’s our way of coping with times that are becoming more and…
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Sound, by T.M. Wolf
Today in Book Review, Catherine Tung reviews T.M. Wolf’s visually experimental debut novel, Sound. Read her review here.
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Nuns on the Run
The Catholic nuns who received a serious talking-to from the Vatican in April for being too outspoken on issues of social justice are planning a bus tour of 9-states this summer: “The sisters plan to use the tour also to…
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Sound by T.M. Wolf
Novelists rarely engage in typographic adventures. There are exceptions, some of impressive vintage. Laurence Sterne depicts death with a black page in Tristram Shandy. Late-twentieth-century Scottish writer Alasdair Gray (also a painter) has his type go mad just when his…
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Erik Evenson: The Last Book I Loved, Last Night
I am here to do two things: scream the praises of James Salter, and throw a few questions about his place in the larger scope of literature into the mix. How did I make it through a college lit class…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Wired looks at the science of Ray Bradbury. I, for one, am very concerned about cosmic climate change. 2012 is the year of slides. Monkey Orchids are a thing. The lesson here is that if you lock yourself out of…
