October 2009
3 posts
This is actually a pretty neat article. Written by... →
I’m going to twist the lid off a well-kept secret: Great new American writing isn’t dead, it’s just hiding. While mainstream publishers piss and moan about literary (it used to be called quality) fiction’s flagging audience, their independent counterparts are experiencing an explosive rebirth, where thrilling new writing is being published practically every week. It’s a renaissance1 of...
bookworm podcasts! →
KCRW’s Bookworm Podcast by Michael Silverblatt includes an excellent series of interviews with established as well as promising talents in literature and poetry. There are a total of ten interviews, including ones with Umberto Eco, Nicole Krauss and Bret Easton Ellis. While Eco discusses his conception of memory in his book ‘The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana’, Krauss ponders...