Patti Smith Reads Just Kids
Yesterday we published Blythe Sheldon’s review of Patti Smith’s Just Kids, her memoir about life with Robert Mapplethorpe. Now you can hear Smith herself read from the book, thanks to…
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Timothy McSweeney
“Readers of this site and of McSweeney’s generally may be aware that this enterprise was named after a real man named Timothy McSweeney. […] We bring today the news that…
Robert Walser’s Microscripts
The Center for the Art of Translation has an interview up with Susan Bernofsky, translator of Robert Walser’s novel The Tanners, among other works. She talks about the six volumes…
Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Jason Mulgrew
And now, in the hopes you will make the same mistake, I am conducting the first of what I hope will be an endless series of interviews with former students who are now published writers.
Writing While (Not) Loving, Loving While (Not) Writing
“Edmund Wilson encouraged his second wife Mary McCarthy’s first forays into fiction by shutting her in a room for three hours and asking her to write a story. Author Shirley…
Outside of Society
Patti Smith’s memoir of her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe chronicles two “mutinous spirits” in the chaos of 1970s New York.
Using Genre As A Tool
“But the idea that genre is a tool, not a prophecy goes beyond combating genre snobbery, I think — it’s actually helpful for writers to think about when crafting their…
Are Printed Literary Journals Imperiled?
“For me, if there’s a piece of writing that I care about, I want to have the physical object,” says Brigid Hughes, editor of the literary journal A Public Space.…
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Aim Ray Guns at Amazon
Citing Amazon’s recent hissy fit over its dispute with Macmillan Publishers’ over e-book pricing, The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America are removing all Amazon.com links from its website.…
Les Fleurs du Skull
Carlo Farneti’s illustrations for a 1935 edition of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. From the collection of Richard Sica:
“Unoriginal Poetry Based on Junk”
D.A. Powell wrote – a few years ago now – a column for The Poetry Foundation in which he dabbles with the idea of street poetry (think along the lines…