Memory and Place
Like fiction, good nonfiction narratives are often driven by description of place. Think of a place that you know well—your kitchen, your office, or a spot you often visit—and, from memory, write a...
View ArticleAnn Patchett on the Sexual Revolution, Lorrie Moore Profiles Lena Dunham, and...
Evan Smith Rakoff Novelist Ann Patchett weighs in on the debate over women's reproductive rights; Flavorwire features twelve great small press books, including Melissa Broder's Meat Heart; Eric...
View ArticleForty-Year-Old Author Is Arabic Booker's Youngest Recipient
Last night in Abu Dhabi, Lebanese author Rabee Jaber was awarded the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, given for the past five years for novels originally written in Arabic. Magic Word: XQZZQX...
View ArticleAdrienne Rich
Pioneering feminist poet Adrienne Rich, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of eighty-two, reads her poem "What Kind of Times Are These?" at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Video URL:...
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Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center
Founded in 1968, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center is located in the Old Town Hall in Venice, California, near the Pacific Ocean. Programs include readings and free workshops. The space also houses a...
View ArticleRemembering Adrienne Rich, New David Foster Wallace, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Seminal feminist poet Adrienne Rich passed away yesterday at age eighty-two; Fast Company explores how the constraints created by Apple for authors and publishers using its...
View ArticleHarry Crews
"The writer's job is to get naked—to hide nothing." Southern Gothic novelist Harry Crews, who passed away Wednesday in Gainesville, Florida, at the age of seventy-six, wrote seventeen novels, including...
View ArticleRemembering Harry Crews, MFA Debate, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Author Harry Crews passed away yesterday in Florida; England's Handspring Puppet Company has adapted Ted Hughes's famous poetry collection, Crow; Edan Lepucki dives into the MFA...
View ArticleChip Kidd Laughs
The associate art director at Knopf, who has designed covers of books by Bret Easton Ellis, Haruki Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Ondaatje, David Sedaris, Donna Tartt, and many others (as well as...
View ArticleThe Poem of the Spanish Poet
This video, for Mark Strand's "The Poem of the Spanish Poet," was filmed in the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s New York City apartment and features animation by director and animation artist Juan...
View ArticleAmazon's Largesse, Gunter Grass Unwelcome in Israel, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Salon delves into Amazon's financial grants to literary organizations; Israel declares German poet Gunter Grass persona non grata; Maura Kelly explores why storytellers lie; and...
View ArticleIowa Review Introduces Contest for Military Vets
In partnership with the family of a Vietnam veteran known for his antiwar writing and activism, Iowa Review has launched a multigenre writing contest for U.S. military veterans and active duty...
View ArticleIowa Review Introduces Contest for Veterans
In partnership with the family of a Vietnam veteran known for his antiwar writing and activism, Iowa Review has launched a multigenre writing contest open to U.S. military veterans and active duty...
View ArticleUnending
This video installation by Maria Korporal, featuring a poem by Daìta Martinez, is part of the collective show ANIMA-L-ARTE at Rome's Monte Soratte nature museum. Video URL: http://vimeo.com/39647520
View ArticleHerman Wouk Sells Novel at Ninety-Six, Tom Bissell on Literary Luck, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Simon & Schuster will publish a new novel from Herman Wouk, who turns ninety-seven in May; Salman Rushdie responds to Israel’s ban of Günter Grass; T. Coraghessan Boyle describes...
View ArticleRichard Ford
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land speaks about his new novel, Canada, to be published by Ecco next month. Video URL:...
View ArticleRichard Ford
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land speaks about his new novel, Canada, to be published by Ecco next month. Video URL:...
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Carolina De Robertis
robertis.jpg "When I’m in the thick of a project, the most important sources of inspiration are those that help me open the gates of reverie, that make me descend into that nonverbal realm from which...
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Carolina De Robertis
robertis.jpg "When I’m in the thick of a project, the most important sources of inspiration are those that help me open the gates of reverie, that make me descend into that nonverbal realm from which...
View ArticleJustice Department Sues Apple and Major Publishers, Vagaries of Book Tours,...
Evan Smith Rakoff This morning the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five of the nation's largest publishers; writers and publicists dish on the vagaries of book tours...
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