An Interview with Ross Gay
Kaveh Akbar’s interview with author Ross Gay is delightfully honest. Gay, who is an author of three books: Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, and, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, invites us into his world by…
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November 2015
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Notable Portland: 11/12–11/18
Thursday 11/12: Mary Jo Bang reads from her acclaimed poetry as part of this semester’s visiting writers series at Reed College. Eliot Chapel, 6:30 p.m., free. Scott Nadelson celebrates the…
The Whiteness of Literary Events
It’s daunting knowing that you will be the only one of your kind at some of these events. When you’ve been made to feel your otherness so concretely in the…
Taking Students Seriously
Roxane Gay, over at The New Republic, on student activism: In the protests at Mizzou and Yale and elsewhere, students have made it clear that the status quo is unbearable.…
Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott
Amy Pence reviews Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott today in Rumpus Books.
Poetry’s Love Affair with the Internet
We already knew that the Internet is a wild and wonderful place for poets, but the web is also empowering verse offline. The New York Times reports on how the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Another day another most important exoplanet yet. Frank Gehry’s unbuilt NYC. Meanwhile, in unbuilt London, straightening the Thames. Here’s some Canadian shipwreck porn for you. It remains mindblowing that it’s…
A Dying Art: Carrie & Lowell and Elegiac Practice
Elegy cannot protect us. It is merely a contained space for us to prowl, and to prowl in a performative manner.
The Joy of Writing
In an exclusive interview with Authorlink, Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants and At the Water’s Edge, talks about research in fiction, story arcs, and the sheer love of…
Libraries Aren’t Just About Books
For Slate, Jacob Brogan suggests that despite “shrinking book racks,” libraries play an important political and social role. This is particularly true in low-income areas, as libraries provide computer access for…
Help Bjork Save Iceland’s Headlands
In conjunction with the Heart of Iceland organization, Bjork is calling for an eleven-day global protest against international efforts to build power lines that would facilitate a plan to transport…