The Big Book Club
There are books on the NEA’s list that I haven’t read and undoubtedly should read—but unless I’ve made a New Year’s resolution, I prefer to stumble upon my next book.
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Charlie Crespo: The Last Book I Loved, Infinite Jest
After reading David Foster Wallace’s short story collection, Girl With Curious Hair, I was determined to read Infinite Jest. I found Wallace’s prose to be unlike anything I had ever…
“A Man of Confused but Deep Spirituality”
On October 21st, Jack Kerouac had been dead exactly forty years. You’d be pressed to find a more quoted, misunderstood, revered, and culturally significant icon of the latter half of…
The Resilience of the Novel
“The media predicted the death of the book upon the advent of radio, and then again with film, and then again with television. It’s happening once more with the rise…
Things to Think About: Publishing Links
The Nook has become the fastest selling item at Barnes & Noble. “What the hell is social publishing?” (via @R_Nash) Robert Weil talks about editing R. Crumb’s Genesis Illustrated. “Is Book…
A Squared-Off Landscape Representing the World
A Village Life is the work of a mature poet looking out at the world from a window, but now concerned with the larger cycles in which she participates, instead…
“My Most Embarrassing Fantasy”
“Looking at these photos, I get the sense that the writers (even the young ones) are long gone, lost to an era when people gazed longingly out of train windows,…
Listen to Metal on Metal and Everything Will Be Okay
Just because you don’t succeed the way others define success, you’re not a failure. You just chose to take a different path. And who’s to say that’s wrong? I just…
PPOW Hosts n+1 Party
PPOW Gallery in Chelsea has been lending its space for a variety of interesting literary arts events through its Hostess Project. A few weeks ago it hosted a screening of…
Newspapers in New York: News Is a Verb
If you won’t read a newspaper on a New York City subway, where will you read it? As zeitgeist, as canary in the mine, the habits of New York subway…
Daniel Pearce: The Last Book I Loved, Mr. Bridge
Evan S. Connell’s Mr. Bridge—a companion piece to his earlier novel, Mrs. Bridge—offers a rare sort of company. And it’s unexpected company: Its protagonist, after all, is a tacitly-but-virulently xenophobic,…
All the Water
“Absent characters often hover around the edges of these stories. Children long for dead parents; husbands deceased, divorced, or ignored wander in and out of thoughts. Creatures both real and…