Tag: books
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From yesterday, on the Paris Review‘s blog, read Dean Wareham’s account of playing his Galaxie 500 oeuvre in Tokyo, 20 years after he was initially supposed to (he had quit the band, and the promoter didn’t know). I’ve been reading his tour diaries on the Luna and Dean and Britta sites since the early 2000s,…
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I think this editorial was mentioned on The Rumpus. I finally got to read it today, and it reminded me of what to do to avoid being depressed and frantic.
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This article felt like Christmas to me. From 12/18/09 by Rumpus founder/memoirist/film director Stephen Elliott.
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Here’s a cool article from Courtney Maum in Tin House about why we writers should always go to readings as much as we can. Six reasons. The main one: It makes our own writing better. And, there’s a list of Maum’s favorite New York City readings highlighted at the end. Solid.
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The December issue of Gently Read Literature is here, and I’ve got a review of Phillip Sterling’s short story collection in there.
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READING SERIES @ Bookcourt 11/29 7pm Join us as we enter our 10th year (1500+ Sackett writers since 2002) and launch our bi-monthly reading series at BOOKCOURT. Featured readers are Sackett instructors Benjamin Hale (THE EVOLUTION OF BRUNO LITTLEMORE), Alison Espach (THE ADULTS), Karen Thompson Walker (THE AGE OF MIRACLES), Heather Aimee O’Neill (MEMORY FUTURE)…
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I’ve just spent two nights watching Season 2 of Bored to Death, and I think Ted Danson as George Christopher may be my favorite TV character of all time. It’s mainly his zest for life and his ability to seize the moment to fulfill whatever whim he has that grabs me. It’s the way he…
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I never knew Edinburgh was so literary. It’s number 1 on National Geographic’s list.
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That line made me laugh out loud. It’s in this article by Lee Rourke at The Guardian about writing longhand. My process is the same as his. All first drafts are written in notebooks, then typed up and revised during that typing. I had a discussion about this, myself, with a friend, and he told…
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Daniel Casey’s magazine Gently Read Literature publishes thoughtful reviews of contemporary poetry and fiction—there’s no fluff, no flippancy or glibness. He’s got a lot of great people writing for him, and he’d like to pay them, so he’s running a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds. You can donate here. There are just two weeks left…
Joe Sullivan 