Tuesday, April 28, 2009
His wife is not his wife.
Monday, April 27, 2009
The Olive Reader
Thursday, April 23, 2009
World Without Borders
NextBook
Stephen Paul Miller
With Illustrations by Noah Miller |
Miller can be as funny—funny—as Lenny Bruce.—Jordan Davis, Paterson Review Our consciousness needs a new conscience: human consciousness needs a new keel. ome of its lines of design may be found in Miller’s poetry. —Sam Truitt, American Book Review Uniquely affecting. Miller has redefined the confessional poem.—Carol Wierzbicki, Brooklyn Rail Conversational fluidity and unstrained syntax enable Miller to address politics, current The lines snake and cascade across the pages, liberated from the flush left format…We have become the muse and are inspired by our transformation.—Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Brooklyn Rail Lively, brainy, probing…Miller’s erudite, humane, and yes, talky poems are punctuated by young Noah with exuberant drawings. Time in these poems is shown to be illusory and malleable. The effect produced is like a dream in which one suddenly realizes one can fly or breathe underwater: one can move forward in the present-tense-simulacra of this book.—Joyelle McSweeney, Constant Critic There's a new air in the fast-talking quality of these poems, which go beyond “New York School” casualness and beyond O'Hara's stylized “Personism.” —Madeline Tiger, Home Planet News Poetry lets go of degraded language, and, Miller talks about seeking a “replacement”…a-logical contingencies and analogies spark salubrious expansions of logic…intuitive processes in an ethos of dialogue inching toward democratic realizations.—“Poetry Suffuses Politics,” Jacket Miller closes a mysterious missing gap in American cultural history.—Jeremiah Creedon, Utne Reader Stephen Paul Miller is a New York City poet and playwright. He is the author of five books of poems, Being With a Bullet, Skinny Eighth Avenue, The Bee Flies In May, That Man Who Ground Moths Into Film and Art Is Boring for the Same Reason We Stayed in Vietnam, and a Backwoods Broadside. He is also author of The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance. He co-edited the NPF Scene of My Selves: New Work On the New York School Poets, which stresses poetry's relationship to painting. He has had gallery shows at PS1 and William Paterson's Ben Shawn Gallery in New York City. |
Literary PassPort
Paul Dry Books
Who is Niki Aguirre?
The Overlook Press
New & Used Books
Online Book Discussions
Bank Street Bookstore
The Rise and Fall of a Canadian Town
Award-winning Quebecois cartoonist Pascal Blanchet's graphic novel is a compelling account of the rise and fall of the small northern town of White Rapids. In the first English translation of his work, Blanchet seamlessly blends fact and fiction as he weaves together the official history of the town and snapshots of the quotidian life of its residents. Founded in 1928 in an isolated region of Quebec forest, the town was conceived and constructed by the Shawinigan Water & Power Company to function as a fully-equipped, self-contained living community for workers at the nearby dam and their families. Intended as an incentive to lure workers to the remote and inaccessible region, White Rapids provided its residents with all the luxuries of middle-class modern life in a pastoral setting-until the town was abruptly shut down in 1971, when the company changed hands.Blanchet's unique, streamlined, retro-inspired aesthetic draws on Art Deco and fifties Modernist design to vividly conjure up idyllic scenes of lazy summer days and crisp winter nights in White Rapids, transporting the reader back to a more innocent time.
Pick up a good book.
Who is JK Savoy?
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Dzanc Creative Writing
Podcasts of interviews with Jimmy Breslin and Art Spiegelman
New York native Jimmy Breslin is a long-time investigative journalist, columnist, and author of over twenty books, including The Church That Forgot Christ, The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, and the biography of newsman/writer Damon Runyon, Damon Runyon: A Life. The recipient of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, Breslin has also received the George Polk Award for Metropolitan Reporting in honor of his work in Newsday. His most recent book is The Good Rat: A True Story.
Art Spiegelman discusses his most recent book,Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! during a Q&A session with moderator Daniel Menaker and the audience.
Art Spielgelman is the creator of several critically-acclaimed comic books, including the best-selling In the Shadow of No Towers, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust narrative Maus. Widely published in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and elsewhere, he has continued to be a singular force in reviving critical interest in the comic book genre. He is also a Guggenheim Fellow, and was recently inducted into the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. His most recent book is Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
Recorded at National Book Foundation Sponsored Events or Featuring National Book Award Authors.
Nobel Laureate
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature presents
Nobel Laureate
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
in conversation with Adam Gopnik
Friday, April 24, 8pm
92nd Street Y/Unterberg Poetry Center
1395 Lexington Ave, New York City
* Mr. Le Clézio's first major U.S. appearance since being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature! *
An avid traveler, French novelist and essayist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has written more than 40 books about exile and self-discovery, and the clash between modern civilization and traditional cultures. In announcing the prize, the Swedish Academy called him an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.” He will be joined in conversation by Adam Gopnik from The New Yorker.
$25/$20 PEN members/$12 students
www.smarttix.com or 212.868.4444
This event is presented as part of PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. 160 writers from 40 countries take the stage in venues across New York City to consider how the world changes and how we change. Do not miss this exciting week of conversations, performances and readings, April 27-May 3, 2009. For a complete schedule of events: www.pen.org/festival
Impact and Interpretations
Casebook on Waiting for Godot
Thursday, April 16, 2009
A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
Summary- Taken from SparkNotes
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
What do people have to say about Leonard Cohen?
Michael Gnarowski's Introduction offers a perspective in which each contribution takes on added significance, while the collection itself provides context in which not only individual passages but all Cohen's novels and poetry may be further appreciated..."
Yes, Leonard Cohen is a poet!
I suggest you listen to some of the poems that turned into songs after you read this book to really get the feel for the "voice" of the man. A few months ago, I had the pleasure of seeing Cohen perform at the Beacon Theater and was mesmerized by his stage presence. The crowd of people that he attracted was unbelievable. There were a ton of celebrities, musicians and travelers in the audience. You could tell that you were in the presence of something special. If you haven't been exposed to Cohen, you need to rush out now and grab onto anything you can find.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York
Bellevue Literary Review
Bellevue Literary Review Fall Reading
Featuring:
Brooklyn
Independent Booksellers of New York City
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Forbidden Planet
Welcome to your personal poetry reading ...
lyrikline.org is the platform on the Internet on which poems are available to listen to, and to read both in their original languages and various translations: a concert of verse in the voices and languages of the authors.
549 poets and 5000 poems in 49 languages are available by now as well as more than 5980 translations in 47 languages!