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Entries from July 22nd, 2010
July 22nd, 2010 No Comments
Quick heads-up: Tonight at 7, Richard Russo will read his nonfiction piece from Granta 111 at Porter Square Books. Incidentally, Granta has posted a link to a Bruce Chatwin story from their first travel writing issue (#10, Winter 1983) on their homepage.
Tags: Granta · Porter Square Books · Richard Russo
“American fiction is good.”
July 17th, 2010 No Comments
“It would be nice if somebody read it.” –Gary Shteyngart
Tags: American fiction · Gary Shteyngart · New York Times
“…and the space of the dash remains over the final ashes.”
July 15th, 2010 No Comments
In 2008, Pablo Medina and Mark Statman published a new translation of Poet in New York by Frederico Garcia Lorca. Ashbery called it “the definitive version…alive and molten”– In the introduction, Medina/Statman write, “Seventy years [after Lorca arrived in New York], those of us who had seen the twin towers of the World Trade Center [...]
Tags: frederico garcia lorca · mark statman · Pablo Medina · translation
Recently…
July 12th, 2010 No Comments
…Brooks Sterritt appeared in Gigantic. …PANK opened pre-orders for Our Island of Epidemics by Matt Salesses. …Katherine Meehan and Graham Trail began a lit mag, The Ear Hustler, and are ravenous for fruits of your labor. …Meeting House published “Neyon” by David Snyder.
Tags: brooks sterritt · david snyder · ear hustler · graham trail · katherine meehan · matt salesses
Segregation for Unicorns
July 7th, 2010 9 Comments
During a conference with one of my writing professors to discuss one of my short stories, my professor said to me, “You know, you should write more black stories like this, it’s very in right now.” The story in question had no reference or markers to the character’s race. I can only assume that she [...]
Tags: Add new tag · African-American fiction · Borders · Ethnicity · literary segregation · unicorns · ZZ Packer