We’ve just published the text of the remarks that JC Hallman will be making on his panel at this year’s AWP conference. Why would we publish something like this? I think if you read it, you’ll understand. Personally, I hope to be th...

I can’t wait till next Monday, March 22, when I’ll talk with my friend Victor LaValle at Greenlight Books about his latest novel (Big Machine), his previous work, and race, madness, religion, and more. It’ll be kind of like getting ...

       In The Observer Susanna Rustin profiles Jonathan Cape-head Dan Franklin: 'I am a tart. I am deeply shallow'.        Among their current titles: Ian McEwan's Solar and Martin Amis' The Pregnant Widow.        Interesting to ...

       AT DNA Kapil Dave reports that 100 Gujarati classics go online, escape oblivion, as: If you haven't been able to read all the great works of Gujarati literature because very few are available in print, there is some good n...

As if I needed more prodding to write about David Shields' Reality Hunger, the book appears in today's New York Times Book Review, respectfully reviewed by Luc Sante, who urges (I nod approvingly here) a calm and sympathetic reading...

"Situations have ended sad, relationships have all been bad Mine have been like Verlaine and Rimbaud But there's no way I can compare all them scenes to this affair You're gonna make me lonesome when you go"    -- Bob Dylan, "Blood...

Another archives thief, this time a college freshman. Full story from the New York Times. I hope to have more when I've had a chance to dig into it a little more. Seems like a pretty cut and dried case to me, though (we like those)....

Lewis Theobald always claimed his 1727 play "Double Falsehood" was based on a lost work of Shakespeare, "Cardenio." Critics disagreed, calling Theobald a hoaxer. But Shakespeare scholar Brean Hammond of Nottingham University thinks ...

Talking to the Guardian, novelist Amy Bloom discusses her previous career as a psychotherapist and how she creates characters: It is more the case, she explains, “that you say to [patients], ‘you seem to be carrying this little tin ...

Before I get into what I think is a very interesting question, I need to do a little background. Since January I’ve been auditing a course at UC Berkeley called Film 50: History of Cinema. This is a class that meets once a week for ...

       At Iceland Review Online Kremena Nikolova-Fontaine writes about the exhibit Con-Text: An Ode to Handmade Books: The exhibition "Con-Text" at the Nordic House brings together 24 artists from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland...

       At Booktrust's Translated Fiction they have their latest batch of recommended titles up -- very summary reviews, but they do showcase a lot of the new and forthcoming titles in translation to look out for....

       The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Kanyasulkam: A Play from Colonial India by Gurajada Apparao, the Telugu classic Girls for Sale (as the unfortunate English title has it ...)....

Right here. I liked it, quite a bit. I know a lot of you didn’t, and some of you have very good reasons for not liking it, though I’m not exactly getting the people who say this is a book against literature. But anyway if you’d like...

Other than that I, and statistically, you (450 million, my dear legion), love it, what’s the point of Facebook? Seven-ish years after their founding, four after their explosion, social networking sites are everyone’s look-at-me cri...

Kate Schapira wanted to build a town but she didn’t want to do it alone so she sent a charming letter soliciting input to about one hundred “friends, relations, and acquaintances (some working writers/some not).” The contributions t...

I’m looking for recent books that have made trash a major theme The obvious one here is Underworld, and I know there must be more. If you can think of one, let me know in the comments–you’ll be doing me a great service!...

We had a lot of fun with the first Litkicks Mystery Spot, and more than half of you figured out the correct answer. Today's entry is a bit harder. At a corner near the center of the Google Maps image above there is a strange plaqu...

Our own Barrett Hathcock has done a lengthy interview with Sam Lipsyte. Therein they discuss, Gordon Lish’s infamous writing classes, Lipsyte’s debt to Barry Hannah, writing with children, the literary blogs, and this: And as a kind...

Sometimes you do something and you have no idea, at the time, why you did it. For example, back in 1986, in Sarasota, Florida, I memorized John Berryman’s Dream Song 14 — but it took until last week for me to understand the reason. ...