Erik Gleibermann is a San Francisco social justice journalist, literary critic, memoirist and poet. He is a contributing editor for World Literature Todayand teaches writing in the Stanford University Continuing Studies program. He has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Florida Review, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares and other literary magazines. He recently completed Jewfro American: An Interracial Memoir. Follow him on Twitter @erikgleibermann and read more of his writings at erikgleibermann.com/writings
Continuing with the library theme, from the most beautiful to what happens when libraries die, here are some images from earthquake-damaged libraries in Japan. (Link is translated by Google). (via…
This week in New York, Jane Eyre readings at Housing Works Bookstore Café, Karen Russell and Wells Tower at the New York Public Library, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Hunter…
The Atlantic has two articles about longitudinal studies: the Harvard Study of Adult Development, begun in 1937, which followed the lives of Harvard sophomore men for over 70 years to…
“Grief, all of a sudden, is hot. Books by authors who have lost a loved one are becoming so common they’re now a classifiable snowflake in the unending blizzard of…
“McNally Jackson in New York is one of a growing number of bookstores that can print on demand. The store has recently installed an Espresso Book Machine, a printer that…
Does fiction tell the true story of childbirth? Online reading plagued by “Bye-bye belly fat” ads. Take a tour through the writing sheds of famous authors. (via) Fahrenheit 451 updated…
This week in New York, the 2011 Oscar nominated shorts at BAM; “Let It End Like This,” an exhibition on obituaries; Bradford Morrow talks about The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront…
Girls Write Now, the awesome organization that I mentor with, is looking for professional women writers to become mentors to a talented group of high school girls for the 2011-2012…
First The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and now the Bible? “…‘booty,’ a word that sets off snickers in Sunday school, will be replaced by the ‘spoils’ of war when the…
This week in New York the 92nd Street Y focuses on “Literature and Revolution in the Middle East,” readings from Granta and Flatmancrooked, the Third Annual Chapbook Festival, Kevin Young…