Features & Reviews
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Cross-Dressing Vollmann
“As she works on me, I fall into a drowse, enjoying the caress of the black brush, the sound of rain outside, Yukiko standing over me. I gaze up at her chin and lips, her brown hair, her tinted eyelids.…
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“One synonym for passion is a willingness to lie…”
“The world is not designed to make it easy for you to create and distribute your writing. You say what you have to say and do what you have to do. And maybe what you’re willing to say and do…
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Alienation, Belonging, and History…
“In the strongest poems in Water the Moon, the complex relationships between language and image underscore Sze-Lorrain’s themes of alienation and homelessness in a way that allows the reader to experience both.” Megan Scarborough reviews Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s new poetry collection,…
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“One man’s Shakespeare is another man’s trash fiction.”
“As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early ‘forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.” That’s Vladimir Nabokov taking down Papa in 1972 according to Michelle Kerns’ collection of “best author vs.…
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PEN World Voices Event in Berkeley
Just a small addendum to Notable San Francisco this week: there’s an interesting event in Berkeley on Wednesday night at 7:30. PEN World Voices, with the assistance of Berkeley Arts & Letters, The Believer, and the Center for the Art…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/19-4/25
This week, celebrate Earth Day, National Poetry Month, and San Francisco’s spectacular art scene. Also, feel smarter with Ransom Stephens, and pay homage to the Reubenesque figure at Hot.Fat.Femmes! Monday 4/19: Get smart! Head over to Atlas Cafe where Ransom…
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Water the Moon
In the strongest poems in Water the Moon, the complex relationships between language and image underscore Sze-Lorrain’s themes of alienation and homelessness in a way that allows the reader to experience both.
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Notable New York, This Week 4/19 – 4/25
This week in New York NOON launches Issue 9 with a reading and party, a reading by notable New Yorkers of stories on their first time in New York, Maile Chapman and Ethan Nosowsky converse, Synesthesia–a game of artistic telephone–begins,…
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The Last Book I Loved: We’re Getting On
Is this the apocalypse? Maybe. It could just be a personal problem. James Kaelan’s We’re Getting On was the last book to remind me why I love books so much. A collection of 2 long and 2 short interconnected stories,…
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Libraries + Sex = The Best Survey In The History Of The World
Bookninja pointed me in the direction of the recently released “1992 Librarians and Sex Survey Results.” Apparently, the Wilson Library Bulletin ran this survey way back when, and then promptly fired its author and destroyed all remaining copies. However, 5000…
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“Vectors of Attraction”
“Well, the gay magazines don’t want it. It’s not good for their political agenda. And the straight mags just don’t get it. I haven’t found the hook, but the feedback from my writing group is, “I want to read this book.…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“Do not chew on the headphone cords!” — From @electriclit, passive aggressive library signs. Marc Jacobs is pissing off literary West Villagers by opening a book store. At The Guardian, Christine Granados has some fightin’ words for Cormac McCarthy and…