Features & Reviews
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Poetry as a Soon-to-Be Bestselling Cure-All
Poetry doesn’t seem to sell, although there are hundreds upon hundreds of poets creating it. I would venture to guess that there are at least twice as many poetry contests out there than fiction contests. Everywhere I turn I see…
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Barely Discernible Notes On Barry Hannah
We did right by your death and went out, Right away, to a public place to drink, To be with each other, to face it.
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Elizabeth Bastos: The Last Book I Loved, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Editor’s alert: Key plot points of this book are discussed below. Junot Diaz won the Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The plot trajectory of the book: kind of expected, to tell the truth, but Oscar…
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Heart Radical: The Strange, True Flight of Airships
Barry Hannah passed away Monday, March 1, 2010. He was 67 and died of natural causes. The precarious state of his health — he’d battled cancer for some years — was a matter of ongoing concern amongst his wide circle…
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The Game of Marseille
Tarot playing cards by Andre Breton, Rene Char, Oscar Dominguez, Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Jacques Herold, Wilfredo Lam, Andre Masson, Benjamin Peret. 1940-41. “In 1939 Breton was mobilized as a doctor, and attended a school for pilots in Poitiers. Peret…
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E-cost?
“Just how much does it actually cost to produce a printed book versus a digital one?” The New York Times delves into the financials behind producing an e-book.
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Underground No More: The Rumpus Interview with Sam Lipsyte
The Ask tells the story of Milo Burke, the latest in Lipsyte’s long line of anti-heroes. By the end, Lipsyte has strengthened his claim as our greatest comic novelist.
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The Cost of Living
A new volume of stories by Mavis Gallant traces the writer’s development from early stories of bewilderment and disappointment to the sharp, incisive later work of a master.
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Notable New York, This Week 3/1 – 3/7
This week in New York, it’s Armory Arts Week, Justin Taylor and Porochista Khakpour tell your literary fortune at Canteen Magazine’s Second Annual Benefit Gala, The PooL Art Fair opens, Old Hat performs, Happy Ending Reading Series presents Extreme Situations…
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Nate East: The Last Book I Loved, On the Lower Frequencies
The last book I loved was On the Lower Frequencies by San Francisco’s Erick Lyle, editor of the underground-classic Scam zine, freelance journalist, and musician-at-large. The book reads as a kind of political and cultural memoir, mostly comprising essays and…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/1-3/7
This week, learn about Asian culture at Sandra Lee Gallery’s acclaimed Chinese New Year show and Robin Sukhadia’s Understanding Bollywood workshop series, get your post Noise Pop film fix at the Disposable Film Festival, and stop by Babylon Salon’s Spring…
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I Think, Therefore I Am Back In Business
In what The New York Times‘ Patricia Cohen writes is “the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of treasured documents[…] vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800s, stolen by an Italian mathematician.” Before the publication of…