Emerson Alumnus John Cotter has recently released his first book, a novel entitled Under the Small Lights. Last week I had the pleasure of not only speaking with John Cotter, but hearing him read, and let me just say right now - John Cotter is an incredible reader. If you ever get a chance to [...]
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Review: Under the Small Lights
June 10th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Book Reviews · emerson alums · fiction · John Cotter
Links for Your Enjoyment and Edification and Some Probably Unwelcome Commentary
May 17th, 2010 No Comments
Over at Publishr, author/artist Brian Joseph Davis begins a post by stating what must be obvious to many publishers and future MAs in publishing—
The distribution channels of digital art and music operate at global speed, but the apparatus that creates and markets literary fiction is only now stepping out of business models from the 1950s.
—and [...]
Tags: brett sandusky · brian joseph davis · china miéville · drm · fiction · matthew diener · publishing · publishr · the city & the city
Guest Post: Using the Lives of Others by Hairee Lee
April 13th, 2010 1 Comment
Reporting from AWP Conference in Denver: Panel Discussion “That’s Private!” with Antonya Nelson, Steven Schwartz, Ann Cummings, and Sylvia Brownrigg
Writers write from their lives and this includes the people in their lives. But what’s permissible? Aesthetically desirable?
Graham Greene said that there exists a “splinter of ice in the heart of a writer,” that is, [...]
Will Self Imbibes Sophisticated Soft Drinks
March 28th, 2010 8 Comments
1. I don’t know anyone who has read Will Self.
2. One of Will Self’s blurbs says that “if Magritte had been a writer instead of a painter, his work might have looked something like” [Self's].
3. In 1997 Will Self took heroin on Prime Minister John Major’s jet.
4. “Will Self” sounds like a nom de plume.
December 1 Events
November 26th, 2009 No Comments
Above image of Thanksgiving Turkey courtesy of Rich Man from Flickr Creative Commons.
Victor LaValle
Location: Barnes and Noble at Emerson College, 114 Boylston Street
Time: 6 pm
The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines Modern Manhood
Location: Brookline Booksmith
Time: 7 pm
Mo Lotman - Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since 1950
Location: Harvard Book Store
Time: 7 pm
Tags: author readings · books · bookstores · Boston · Emerson College WLP Department · fiction · Independent bookstores · nonfiction
November 19 Events
November 17th, 2009 No Comments
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James Schwartz-In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA
Location: Brookline Booksmith
Time: 7 pm
Gordon S. Wood-Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Location: Harvard book Store
Time: 7 pm
Hallie Ephron, Katherine Hall Page, and Hank Phillippi Ryan
Location: Porter Square Books
Time: 7 pm
Tags: author readings · bookstores · fiction · Independent bookstores · nonfiction
October 15 events
October 12th, 2009 No Comments
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An Evening With Postsecret’s Frank Warren
Please join us as welcome Frank Warren as he discusses the Postsecret phenomona and signs copies of his newest book, Postsecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God.
Time: 7 pm
Location: Boston University Law Auditorium
Charles London, Far from Zion
Award-winning journalist Charles London [...]
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Lucy Honig at Porter Square Books
October 9th, 2009 No Comments
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Lucy Honig, Waiting for Rescue
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 7 pm, Porter Square Books
Tags: author readings · books · bookstores · fiction · Independent bookstores
On Pooh-Poohing
October 7th, 2009 No Comments
Way back in January I expressed great excitement at the arrival of a brand new, officially authorized Winnie the Pooh installment, and promised to gush and/or rant about it here on Vernacular as soon as I was able.
Well, since Return to the Hundred Acre Wood (by David Benidictus “in the tradition of A. A. Milne”) [...]
Tags: Andrew · Book Reviews · fiction · literary taste
Professor Profile: Frederick Reiken
September 18th, 2009 No Comments
Based on my past and current class schedule here at Emerson, you would think I was doomed to take every single class Rick Reiken will ever teach. My first semester, I was dropped (unwillingly, at first) into two of his courses, a lit class and a novel workshop (novels, gag), and had no small amount [...]
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