Karl’s Journey to the Moon
First published in Sweden in 1926, Karl’s Journey to the Moon (Kalles Resa Till Manen) is the story of a boy who blows a soap bubble which takes him to…
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Kirsty Logan: The Last Book I Loved, Selected Poems 1956-1968
My copy of Leonard Cohen’s Selected Poems 1956-1968 is not actually mine. I stole it from my childhood home eight years ago. When my parents split I was 18 years…
Walpurgisnacht
Illustrations by Stefan Eggeler for a 1922 edition of Gustav Meyrink’s Walpurgisnacht:
“They’re probably watching the news and wishing it were more about their bombing and less about the oil spill.”
Today we published a review of David Goodwillie’s American Subversive by Eric B. Martin that it isn’t so much a review as an essay that tackles some really important questions…
Patti Smith on New York City
Poet, artist, and punk-rock legend Patti Smith sat down last week with journalist Amy Goodman to discuss, among other things, Smith’s memoir Just Kids—reviewed by us in February—about her life…
“The Inventiveness of Poets”
“Without obvious fanfare, over the past 10 to 20 years a seismic change in publishing has occurred: Poetry has become our fastest-growing literary cottage industry, relying less on legions of…
*Steve Almond’s Bad Hair Museum*
A Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life Contest
Have you ever had bad hair? Let me rephrase that question: When was the last time you had bad hair? Because it is one of the basic laws of Having…
Notable New York, This Week 5/3 – 5/9
This week in New York Electric Literature celebrates the launch of Issue 4, the Shepard Fairey exhibit is at Deitch Projects, Daniel Clowes discusses Wilson, John Leguizamo is honored by…
THE BLURB #16: Hungrier, More Successful, a Bit Ruthless
A review of David Goodwillie’s American Subversive that veers off into some really important and complicated and basically unanswerable questions about literature, literary reviews, overstimulation, secret weapons, and 21st century life.
“a very fine poet,” “a very mean man”
“I think of (Pablo Neruda) as a very fine poet, a very fine poet. I don’t admire him as a man, I think of him as a very mean man.”…
Slipstream? Conceptual Fiction? _______?
“I realized that if I could write a book with a monster in it, I could enjoy writing again.” — From Victor LaValle, in an article at Techland in which…
“Confessions of a Poet Laureate”
“I don’t know if you are aware of this, but our poet laureates are not called upon to write occasional poems. The position is privately endowed—originally from a fund set…