How “Am I hot or not?” affects “Am I publishable or not?” Also, how reviewers should not rely upon Rate My Professors for biographical information. NPR’s On The Media discusses whether Kachingle, an online service that encourages readers to donate to publications they read, can save the newspaper industry. Michiko Kakutani is not kind toward […]
I just love the look of this bookshelf. As far as foot by foot, it might not have the capacity of a horizontal bookshelf, but you have to admit that its curvaceous flanks are alluring. The “Bookworm,” as it’s called (not to be confused with Michael Silverblatt’s program!) is available for $425 at myownspace.com.
In honor of the Academy Awards ceremony this weekend, which I will be watching in Santa Monica with a host of industry-type people and assiduously casting my ballot for the winners, I offer this literary focus. You’ve likely heard about the most famous short story adaption of the year, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” […]
Baby Got Books digs into Lauren Groff’s Delicate Edible Birds. Bookdwarf reports that her bookstore has begun delivering by bicycle. Match that, Amazon! Does the recent influx of Pakistani literature indicate that it’s supplanting India as the hot geographic/ethnic trend in literature? Earthgoat interviews Paula Morris, whose recent short story collection Forbidden Cities is a […]
I’ve been a longtime subscriber to Harper’s Magazine — it’s one of my favorite magazines, from the clever scientific hodgepodge of the last page “Findings” to the fiction to the “Readings” to the articles. But the March 2009 article, “The Last Book Party” was disappointing (Not online yet, or I’d link). It’s a piece […]
I’m afraid I’m on a diverse reading schedule these days. It’s never: Read One Book Then Start Another. At last count, I think I was getting through about 10 short story collections/novels. I just have one story left in both Mary Gaitskill‘s new book “Don’t Cry” and in Daniyal Mueenuddin “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.” […]
The Official AWP website. Hobart is blogging the event. Best American Poetry will have updates through the end of the week. Chicago Literary Scene Examiner is hot on the literary scene. A bunch of AWP pictures of authors and miscellany on Flickr. Inside Higher Ed has a post up and more to come. Barrelhouse Magazine […]
In you are not in Chicago in the dead of winter enjoying AWP, and are in Los Angeles which has seen a spell of rain but also some temps in the 70s, consider checking out Ray Bradbury at the Beverly Hills Library on Friday. He’s launching a new collection of short fiction, “We’ll Always Have […]
B&N Review has a piece by Paul Di Filippo on the state of short stories, specifically genre short stories. It starts: If at any given moment short fiction is not actually experiencing a Golden Age, it is always seen to be dying. Critics, authors, publishers, editors, readers — even sociologists! — engage (or should that […]
If the recession/depression has you pinching pennies, check out audible.com, the iTunes of short stories. To celebrate four weeks of short story month, Audible has lots of stories for 99 cents. But if you just want to read the stories, not listen to them, both the Fitzgerald Benjamin Button story and the Junot Diaz story […]
