Tag: books
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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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Read his article here in The New Republic.
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Here are the details for the next SSWW reading: The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop Reading Series Mon Mar 4, 7:00PM BookCourt 163 Court Street, Brooklyn Host(s): Julia Fierro (SSWW) Appearing: Megan Abbott Julia Fierro Matthew Aaron Goodman Jessica Penner AND, catch Julia Fierro at BookCourt tonight, in conversation with Dina Nayeri.
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“Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical. Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalyptic times, even if this means sounding apocalyptic.” Read the full interview here.
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I just read this story this morning, and I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s about a white American living in Paris after WWII, who befriends a recently arrived black jazz musician and his wife and ultimately is rejected by both. Why? Well, that’s sort of the gray area, but it seems to be about…
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Read it here. This part, below, really stood out for me. I was thinking I’ve got some stuff on the hard drive that may be just exercises. And she’s getting to the essence of what writing is, and how a writer should look at things, I think. Jami Attenberg: …I wrote a book last year that I threw…
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I was just thinking of Kurt Vonnegut over the weekend. I might’ve even had a dream about him, where it was declared by me or someone else that he was the greatest American writer. And now, lo and behold, there’s an interview in The Rumpus with Nanette, his daughter, and we’re coming up on what…
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Electric Lit has part 2 of Susan Kirschbaum’s “Diary of a Rogue Writer” posted today. This part gets into the real salesmanship part of it and creating buzz. Read it.
Joe Sullivan 