Things to Do in Denver When You’re Braindead: An AWP Retrospective
1. Award George Saunders the Nobel Prize in Decency Have you ever met a single reader or writer who does not worship George Saunders? You have not. You have not…
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Only Because It’s Sunday
Seriously, we shouldn’t be linking to this. But our Sunday editor, Seth Fisher, is out of town and, well, what are the odds of Aimee Mann and Ice-T getting into…
Vonnegut’s Blackboard
“Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard” (remember those?) over at Lapham’s Quarterly. Vonnegut on Cinderella:
The Ethicist and the eBook
With publishers delaying e-book releases to encourage hardcover, real-book sales, what is the new and hip Kindle consumer to do? What if you buy the hardcover, and then pirate an…
The Underworld Through Folk
Singer/Songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, a folk opera set in a post-Apocalyptic Depression-Era, illuminates the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus through the twangs and harmonies of folk music. If that…
National Poetry Month: Day 11. “Schematic” by T. R. Hummer
Schematic Inside the machine is another machine which refers to the machine enclosing it. So he touches her hand, and the image of a child emerges.
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
This week, we’ve got some pretty excellent reviews, a “Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex” interview, and an essay that must not be missed. Come check it out.
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Most of the excitement this week is in Denver at the AWP Conference, but there’s still plenty to talk about in poetry. For instance, have you been keeping up with…
The Resistance of Memory
Ander Monson attempts to move beyond “the singular authority of ‘I’ in nonfiction,” exploring new possibilities for the memoir form.
Celebrating 300 Years of Copyright
Counterpoint asked “a lot of people” (as Cory Doctorow put it) to reflect on the world of copyright on the 300th anniversary of the passage of Queen Anne’s Law, and…