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2000+ WRITERS SINCE 2002 Monday, 2/24 BookCourt 7pm The Sackett Street Writers’ Reading Series presents Molly Rose Quinn, poet & Sackett Street instructor Ivy Pochoda (Visitation Street, a novel) Jason Porter (Why Are You So Sad? a novel) Howard Feinstein (Fire on the Bayou, a memoir) BookCourt, 163 Court St. (btwn Pacific & Dean), Brooklyn The event is FREE and open to the public.…
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Anis Shivani interviews Raymond Hammond, editor of New York Quarterly, on what’s wrong with the current poetry landscape and how to remedy it, in The Review Review. The secrets: Read poetry from the classics to the present; and continue learning, always; be patient, and write to get better, not just to be published, he says. He’s…
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Susan Cheever’s new biography on E.E. Cummings seems like a fascinating read. Check out this excerpt published in the latest issue of Vanity Fair, “The Prince of Patchin Place.” I was riveted, reading it, especially this: As we turned out of the school’s genteel and leafy driveway and down the hill to Route 9, headed…
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I think I agree with all of these. The Stones, U2, The Who, The Beach Boys are all too damn old. Others on the list aren’t old, but their music is terrible. I’d add Metallica.
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The Derangers are out, and the ByzanTones are now on the bill. FLESH is still on at midnight headlining.
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Nicolle Elizabeth has a nice interview on The Believer blog with Summer Brennan, who writes for the U.N. I often wonder if working as a writer/editor is detracting from my creativity. For her, it’s not the case at all. Here’s an excerpt: The thing that is not different in my writing across the board, be it…
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I read this on The Story Prize blog after seeing it on The Outlet blog. Gurganus’ points about conciseness in fiction in these hectic times are hard to argue with. The novella may be the most perfect form of literary art in the 2010s. But I think it always has been, and he makes that…
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Who murdered professor Eric Davenport? That’s the question Detective Harsley attempts to answer in this murder/mystery/satire on campus life by Melvin Jules Bukiet’s 13 Sarah Lawrence College writing workshop students. Was it Davenport’s student and lover, Grace Montoya? Was it someone else in the faculty? The administration? His gorgeous wife and former student, Ophelia? And…
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Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop Tales from the Gate Keeper: A Panel Discussion with Literary Agents Mon Jan 27, 7:00PM Appearing: Nichole LeFebvre (The Friedrich Agency) Julia Fierro (SSWW) Peter Knapp (Park Literary Group) Monika Verma (Levine Greenberg) Lucy Carson (The Friedrich Agency) William Boggess (Barer Literary) About the Event: From debut novels to death threats,…
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The Review Review just highlighted a new series from VQR, “Writer Dad.” Here’s the second installment with Ro Cuzon. And the first with Tobias Buckell. I read both of these, and I could relate completely. I’m a writer dad, myself. Both these guys seem to say the same thing: You’ll find time. And kids add…
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