Hubert Selby Jr.
"He was so old-school he kicked dope strapped down in jail in West Hollywood," says author Jerry Stahl, who joins Henry Rollins and Amiri Baraka in this profile of the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn,...
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Alvin Ailey's "Revelations"
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View ArticleCenturies-Old Poem Discovered, Sabina Murray on the Women of Franzen and...
Evan Smith Rakoff Novelist Sabina Murray writes about the female characters in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom; a centuries-old mystery was uncovered at West...
View ArticleIn Honor of Vaclav Havel, Hanukkah Lights, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Vaclav Havel, playwright, poet, dissident, and first president of the Czech Republic, has passed away; the Christian Science Monitor asks, "Is Slate's Amazon-defending blogger really...
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Bodwell’s Baker’s Dozen
January/February 2012 Joshua Bodwell In the spirit of year-end best-of reading lists, we offer Joshua Bodwell’s Baker’s Dozen 2011 as a companion to his article “You Are What You Read: The Art of...
View ArticleQ&A: Some Assembly May Be Required
January/February 2012 Kevin Larimer Polly Becker, a Boston-based artist who in her formative years was influenced stylistically by artists such as Edward Gorey, Alphonse Mucha, and Aubrey Beardsley,...
View ArticleDigital Digest: Apps Reveal Reading’s Social Side
January/February 2012 Adrian Versteegh The newly launched Findings, an online community that lets users compile and contribute excerpts from books and websites, joins a growing number of digital...
View ArticleMcSweeney’s Opens Poetry Series
January/February 2012 Tess Taylor After making a name for itself in independent-press circles with its stylish, smart books of fiction, children’s literature, and food writing, the fourteen-year-old...
View ArticleThe Bard Behind the Bar: Lessons in Self-Publishing Salesmanship
January/February 2012 Robert Hershon Geoff Bartholomew, poet and head bartender at McSorley’s Old Ale House, New York City’s famous saloon, reveals how he sold five thousand copies of his...
View ArticlePoets & Ampersands
January/February 2012 Kevin Nance For nearly a century, the ampersand has been a key feature of certain strands of American poetry. To understand its history in the genre—and the role it plays for...
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Catalogue of Curiosities
January/February 2012 Immerse yourself in the music, films, art, and other points of inspiration that set off the spark for our twelve debut poets of 2011. Page 1This is all the info relevant to page...
View Article"Dear Editor (10 January)" by Amy Newman
Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin URL: http://www.pw.org/files/de_10_jan.mp3 Amy Newman reads from her fourth poetry collection, Dear Editor, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice...
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Chewing Tinfoil
Brock Davis animates "OK" by Matt Sumell in Electric Literature's latest Single Sentence Animation. Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHXaTsjRXFk&feature=g-all-u&context=G2f6044eFAAAA...
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Rings of Saturn
W. G. Sebald ISBN: 9780811214131 ringsofsaturn.png Contributor: Melissa Faliveno, <i>Poets & Writers Magazine</i>’s Diana and Simon Raab Editorial Fellow, Location New York, NY...
View ArticleE 10/11 Neighborhood Writing Alliance
Khari Bowden facilitated a series of writing workshops at the Neighborhood Writing Alliance in Chicago. He incorporated the organization-wide theme of Urban Legends, Rumors, and Myths into the...
View ArticleTwenty-five Things Writers Should Stop, James Franco's First Novel, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Famed Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti has written an appeal to help build a Poets Plaza in San Francisco; author Chuck Wendig lists twenty-five things writers should stop doing;...
View ArticleAgents on the Move
Publishers Lunch reports today that literary agents Amy Hughes and Ethan Bassoff have moved to new agencies. read more
View ArticleJanuary 5
In honor of Robert Walser's Microscripts, write a story (in as small as print as possible) on previously used paper, allowing whatever use the paper previously served (letter from a family member, etc)...
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