Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/25-1/31
This week: Work on the memoir you’ve always wanted to write with Michelle Tea, dance to benefit Doctors Without Borders at San Francisco Hearts Haiti, watch SF IndieFest take over…
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The Country Where No One Ever Dies
The Albanian, in Ornela Vorpsi’s comic novel, is someone prone to megalomania, and who has one obsession “dearer to them than death… Fornication.”
Notable New York, This Week 1/25 – 1/31
This week in New York Lydia Davis and Richard Howard read, John Wray, Heidi Julavits and Sarah Manguso discuss ebooks at Melville House, Of Montreal and Damon & Naomi perform,…
Alice, 106
At 106 years old, Alice Herz-Sommer is profiled in Haaretz. She is a musician, Holocaust survivor, and is also said to be the last living acquaintance of Kafka.
The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic on the Danube
Sasa Stanisic was born in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina and lived there until 1992, at which point his family fled the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia. He currently resides in Germany.…
Too Much Fun With The OED
It looks like Nick Martens over at The Bygone Bureau is having too much fun with his OED subscription. “To those who would say that there is nothing “secret” about…
Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
This week, Rumpus books published pieces about fucking and writing, A Common Pornography, and Folksy Fruit. Also, there was an interview with Jonathan Lethem.
Vollmann on Prostitution
“Well, I’m getting older, so I can’t get it up as much as I used to. […] I think prostitutes are amazing people with so much knowledge of human nature…
Oedipus at Hiroshima – Living Design in Japan
Some (more) inspiring Japanese design nuggets excavated from my ramshackle book collection.
Fucking and Writing: The Rumpus Conversation with Jami Attenberg
“Perhaps we should talk about fucking. Fucking and writing, fucking and talking, fucking and thinking, fucking and whatever else it is that fucking goes with…”
Staying Alive as a Poet, Artist, Etc.
“Sometimes it seems as though poets, in particular, move in an endangered artistic world. Think Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Anne Sexton. And, last month, Rachel Wetzsteon, an accomplished poet who…
A Bosnian Novelist And An Irish Novelist Walk Into A Bar
If you have any doubts about the power of the novel, or its lasting cultural significance, or its transcendent ability to deepen and enrich our chaotic earthly experiences, look no…