“I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll be a writer who doesn’t publish’’’
“For three years, Paul Harding’s unpublished novel, Tinkers, sat in a drawer. The writer, a former Boston rock drummer who grew up in Wenham, had tried selling it, but nobody…
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Forget “How-To” and Do
“My advice? Put the manuals and the how-to books away. Read the writers themselves, whose work and example are all you really need if you want to write.” Richard Bausch…
The Last Book I Loved: Just Kids
I finished reading Just Kids by Patti Smith at Four Barrel on Valencia Street in San Francisco and although I tried my hardest to blink them back, tears kept falling…
Comics as Poetry
PORNOGRAPHIC BARN OWL creator Ian Huebert celebrates National Poetry Month Rumpus comics style: “Ordnung.”
“There are many excellent stories that don’t interest me.”
“On Easter I signed up my first short story for the Paris Review. It’s by a young woman you’ve never heard of named April Ayers Lawson, and it’s an astonishment.…
The Absolute at Large
Three covers by Josef Čapek from the Japanese book Čapek’s Bookshelf, which collects 120 of his covers:
THE JUMP OFF: The Sam Lipsyte Players
As part of our event, A Night Together, which was co-presented with Tin House and Flavorpill on April 6, we held a contest to give writers the chance to win…
The First Time Since 1981
“[Erika] Goldman is Editorial Director of Bellevue Literary Press, the tiny imprint behind Tinkers. To call it a surprise that Bellevue published a Pulitzer-winning novel — the first small press…
Cradle Song
Cradle Song is more than poetry. Stacey Lynn Brown has written a cultural history of the south, of its tenuous and tendentious relationships, of the complicated and often disturbing power…
Documenting Burroughs
“Each person can draw something completely different from him because he’s so multifaceted. I think it depends on the reader, but for me, I was first drawn to his awareness…
“Under the Influence”
“Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) Hot tea and sherry “Raymond Chandler, The Blue Dahlia (1946) Gimlets and vitamin shots “Honoré de Balzac, La Comédie humaine (1829-1848)…
Loud Libraries
Yesterday we mentioned that it’s National Library Week, a time to celebrate all things bibliotheca. But author Sung J. Woo is using the week in a more somber way, to…