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In Translation: HEART OF PALM by Laura Lee Smith

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:30:00 -0400

German.

(A new series highlighting our favorite foreign editions of Grove Atlantic books)

nevver: Biblio-

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:59:43 -0400

nevver:

Biblio-

Grove Atlantic author Tommy Wieringa dropped by Brooklyn’s...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:22:33 -0400

Grove Atlantic author Tommy Wieringa dropped by Brooklyn’s WORD for a quick book recommendation segment with Ron Hogan (@the_handsell)

ronhogan:

Rebecca from Connecticut likes the following books:

U and I, Nicholson Baker

Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer

The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm

Footsteps, Richard Holmes

What books do Tommy Wieringa and I recommend for Rebecca? (You’ve probably got some great suggestions of your own; add them when you re-blog!)

Tommy Wieringa is the author of Little Caesar. His previous novel, Joe Speedboat, won the Bordewijk Prize in 2006 and was long-listed for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, as well as nominated for the AKO Literature Prize. He lives in Amsterdam.

(taped at WORD Brooklyn, Greenpoint)

A Very Brief Dystopia: My New Piece in Bullett Mag

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:51:00 -0400

A Very Brief Dystopia: My New Piece in Bullett Mag:

Microfiction! Read G. Willow Wilson’s Cairo Warden in this BULLETT mag online exclusive.

gwillow:

In this month’s issue of Bullett Magazine, four futurists—including yours truly—imagine some very strange days. Check out these delicious, bite-sized pieces of microfiction.

Here’s some funky, literary shadow art in honor of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:45:37 -0400

Here’s some funky, literary shadow art in honor of National Short Story Month.

Happy Weekend. Happy Reading. buzzfeedrewind: 1960s school...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:06:33 -0400

Happy Weekend. Happy Reading.

buzzfeedrewind:

1960s school library posters

The folks over at PWxyz have come out with another literary pie...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:22:25 -0400

The folks over at PWxyz have come out with another literary pie chart, this time for Samuel Beckett’s trilogy (MOLLOY, MALONE DIES, THE UNNAMABLE). Fabulous.

http://bit.ly/10CUFeQ

Heading to the Met Punk Exhibit? Brush up on your Punk history...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:01:00 -0400

Heading to the Met Punk Exhibit? Brush up on your Punk history with PLEASE KILL ME first.

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/PUNK

The Met’s spring 2013 Costume Institute exhibition, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, will examine punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today. Featuring approximately one hundred designs for men and women, the exhibition will include original punk garments and recent, directional fashion to illustrate how haute couture and ready-to-wear borrow punk’s visual symbols.

Focusing on the relationship between the punk concept of “do-it-yourself” and the couture concept of “made-to-measure,” the seven galleries will be organized around the materials, techniques, and embellishments associated with the anti-establishment style. Themes will include New York and London, which will tell punk’s origin story as a tale of two cities, followed by Clothes for Heroes and four manifestations of the D.I.Y. aesthetic—Hardware, Bricolage, Graffiti and Agitprop, and Destroy.

Presented as an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes will be animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques.

Richard Hell photo by Kate Simon

“Biblioclasm” and 25 other rare words beautifully...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:16:07 -0400

“Biblioclasm” and 25 other rare words beautifully illustrated by The Project Twins graphic art studio.

http://shop.theprojecttwins.com/category/a-z-of-unusual-words

melvillehouse: June is now International Crime Month. Mark it...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:45:38 -0400

melvillehouse:

June is now International Crime Month. Mark it on your calendar with a bloody flag.

Melville House in the middle of an EPIC INDIE PRESS TEAM-UP with the folks at Akashic, Europa and Mysterious Press/Grove Atlantic to celebrate great edgy crime writing from around the world.

We’re like Voltron, but for bookish idealists who want to read about stabbings, I guess? A very complicated Voltron.

Anyhow we have a whole slew of incredible events happening throughout June. Read more about them here.

IDEA: Escape. Henry Miller lays the groundwork for Tropic of...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:17:59 -0400

IDEA: Escape. Henry Miller lays the groundwork for Tropic of Capricorn.

popchartlab: Don Draper’s Old Fashioned, The Dude’s White...

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:01:22 -0400

popchartlab:

Don Draper’s Old Fashioned, The Dude’s White Russian, Hunter S. Thompson’s Singapore Sling, Daisy Buchanan’s Mint Julep, and more in our new Cocktail Chart of Film and Literature.

Windows of New York. This site is a good reminder to get...

Fri, 03 May 2013 18:30:42 -0400

Windows of New York. This site is a good reminder to get outside this weekend…

Tell me about it.

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:16:48 -0400

Tell me about it.

nprfreshair: Sebastian Junger on the trauma of losing his...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:48:07 -0400

nprfreshair:

Sebastian Junger on the trauma of losing his friend and collaborator, Tim Hetherington:

Within an hour I decided not to cover combat again. I didn’t want to risk traumatizing everyone I loved by getting killed myself. I mean, you go to war, you think you’re gambling with your own life and then I realized that what you’re really doing is gambling with everyone else’s lives, everyone who cares about you. You’re dead. You don’t matter. It’s over. It’s everyone else who has to deal with it. I hadn’t really gotten that either and, when Tim died, I did and I also just ran headlong into the central tragedy of war which is that good people get killed and I sort of didn’t want anything to do with it anymore.

Image of Tim Hetherington in Afghanistan courtesy of Norget

Burroughs on the set of David Cronenberg’s 1991 adaptation...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:42:18 -0400

Burroughs on the set of David Cronenberg’s 1991 adaptation of NAKED LUNCH.

“I know a lot more about being white than you know about being...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:32:38 -0400

“I know a lot more about being white than you know about being Indian.” -Sherman Alexie to Bill Moyers

Sherman’s full interview with Bill Moyers is up on the Moyers & Co. website now, along with lots of extra content, including video of Sherman reading “Ode to Gray”, Sherman’s top 10 Native American Poets, an excerpt from “War Dances,” and more.

Sherman will also be taking questions in a live chat Tuesday, April 6 at 1:00PM ET. More info on that here.

Photo

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:41:26 -0400

Courtesy of Lapham’s Quarterly. If the gentle soul at the...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:58:50 -0400

Courtesy of Lapham’s Quarterly.

If the gentle soul at the top(sy) of the page piques your interest, note that Atlantic Monthly Press will publish TOPSY: The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant, P. T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison by Michael Daly in July of this year…right around hot dog eating contest season goes into high gear on Coney Island.

On this week’s Moyers & Company (check local listings), Bill...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:13:22 -0400

On this week’s Moyers & Company (check local listings), Bill Moyers is joined by writer and Native American Sherman Alexie. For over two decades, Alexie has been navigating the cultural boundaries American culture — and his frequent crossings of them — in lauded poetry, novels, short stories, screenplays, even stand-up comedy. On the show, Alexie discusses the challenges of living in different cultures at the same time, and shares his irreverent perspective on contemporary American experiences.