February 2012
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Poets: Consider yourself very lucky if you come upon a poet—they are an endangered species! Poets can be divided into two types: those over fifty years of age, and those under thirty-two. There are no poets in between thirty-two and fifty because they have gone out and gotten jobs.
Poet or Memoirist?
Poets of the first type tend to be disheveled—they might be wearing one or more articles...
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One Story is thrilled to announce our 2012 Literary Debutantes:
Ramona Ausubel NO ONE IS HERE EXCEPT ALL OF US
Megan Mayhew Bergman BIRDS OF A LESSER PARADISE
Caitlin Horrocks THIS IS NOT YOUR CITY
Katherine Karlin SEND ME WORK: STORIES
Miroslav Penkov EAST OF THE WEST: A COUNTRY IN STORIES
Anna Solomon THE LITTLE BRIDE
Arlaina Tibensky AND THEN THINGS FALL APART
SAVE THE DATE and...
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WatchTruth stranger than fiction (even than mine): Mormon Church converts Anne Frank for 10th time. Via Colbert Nation.
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Some time ago, interviewing the writer V.S. Naipaul, I struggled to get him to do what writers are often asked to do: to apply published insights to new territory — in a way, to become a pundit. I realized, the more I struggled, that Mr. Naipaul, in refusing these prompts, was defending a notion of writing that is at war with instantaneousness.
“There are two ways of talking,” he said. “One...
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2. Katherine Boo, Pulitzer Prize winner, reads from her new work.
February 23, 7 PM. Location: 82nd & Broadway Barnes & Noble.
Katherine Boo was recently featured on the front cover of The New York Times in anticipation of her new book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. Boo is a reportedly humble yet incredibly, incredibly talented...
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A group of Polish Jews, during World War II, is herded onto trains bound for the concentration camps, but instead, quite by chance, they board a train full of circus performers on tour to entertain the Nazis. What happens to them is the subject of Nathan Englander’s penetrating short story, “The Tumblers”. It is set in an atmosphere where fateful decisions about life or...
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Watch
powells:
Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder and champion of independent bookstores, rocks on the Colbert Report.
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2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists...
Full list:
The L.A. Times Book Prizes are awarded the night before the weekend’s Festival of Books, which will take place at USC. Tickets for the Book Prizes ceremony will be available for purchase on March 26; check the Festival of Books website for details.
2011 LA Times Book Prize Finalists
Biography “Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned” by John A. Farrell (Doubleday) ...
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Liz Moore Music and Books: Jennifer Weiner HEFT... →
lizmooremusic:
Every now and then, someone does something so gracious, generous, and unexpected that it sort of takes your breath away.
This is one of those stories.
A few weeks ago, Jennifer Weiner, author of Good in Bed and In Her Shoes, among other titles, spontaneously tweeted (which is like…
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It seems like the quintessentially contemporary phenomenon: the pedestrian, walking along, distracted from his surroundings by the glow of the map in his smartphone.
But there have been some oblivious palm-gazers, it turns out, since long before Steve Jobs came along. In London, during the Great Exhibition of 1851, the merchant George Shove designed a ladylike accessory that would allow...
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Interviewed after winning England’s Costa Prize for Literature in late January, the distinguished novelist Andrew Miller remarked that while he assumed that soon most popular fiction would be read on screen, he believed and hoped that literary fiction would continue to be read on paper. In his Man Booker Prize acceptance speech last October, Julian Barnes made his own plea for the survival...
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Watchblexbolex:
my demo as flame artist & visual effect supervisor
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I love this idea—the way any story is an amalgam between the written version and your own experience. We could have a contest where people draw the kitchen table in my story, or in Carver’s, and everyone would depict it differently. The round table you had growing up, or plates on the wall in your grandmother’s kitchen—these details work themselves into the way you imagine the story....
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“In Hasidism and Modern Man, Martin Buber, the great philosopher and folklorist,...”
– “What We Talk About When We Talk About Nathan Englander” by Scott Cheshire on Tottenville.
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Big Think, Short Fiction Contest (entries due...
Winning Entries to be Selected by Nathan Englander
PEN/Malamud Award-winning author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Surprise! The Big Idea is …
Future Food
What is this?
an Iron Chef-style literary event. A glorious experiment. Wintertime fun.
Between now and 12:01 am Monday, 2/20, participating writers should submit a 1000 word (max) piece of short, short science...
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The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia
Mark Shaver for The Chronicle Review
For the past 10 years I’ve immersed myself in the details of one of the most famous events in American labor history, the Haymarket riot and trial of 1886. Along the way I’ve written two books and a couple of articles about the episode. In some circles that affords me a presumption of expertise on the subject. Not, however, on Wikipedia.
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“Every book better be fully intimate, it better be all you have. I’m obviously...”
– Nathan Englander on writing fiction. (via nprfreshair)
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Watchnprfreshair:
nprmusic:
One of the best party bands around, Red Baarat plays rollicking funk music steeped in Northern India’s wedding celebrations, with a dash of D.C. go-go beats and hip-hop. The dance-friendly group performs a loud, high-energy set at the NPR Music offices.
some music for your morning
Excited to say I’m on Fresh Air today with Terry Gross. Even wore a new shirt...
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A favorite Yehuda Amichai love poem for Valentine’s Day. (On a flight to San Francisco now. Headed out there to pan for gold….No, to read at the JCC. That’s where I’ll be tonight.)
A Dog After Love
by Yehuda Amichai
After you left me I let a dog smell at My chest and my belly. It will fill its nose And set out to find you.
Poem continues here.
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WatchHeather Taylor is probably eating a better lunch than I am today. I’m gearing up for some train food as I head down to DC for a reading with the fine folks at Sixth and I.
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Watchpeterpawlick:
Nathan Englander’s First Crack Coffee for McSweeney’s, with William Hereford
Working on this with Nathan and Will felt like building a tree house with the big kids.
It’s an honor to work with you guys.
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