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Names and Statistics

(broadcast on Sveriges Radio, August 14, 2011) Today, at the moment of writing, it is July 23, 2011. Im sitting alone in our flat in Malmö writing the manuscript for this summer program. Its raining,...

06 may 12

Wholly Beautiful: Reading The Road to Reality

I’ve had this John Cooper Clarke poem running through my head as I clomp around the hot city, all the verses running together and switching order. “The bloody train is bloody late, you bloody wait yo...

06 may 12 1 person likes this

A Conversation Between Daisy Rockwell and Lorraine Adams

Bookslut columnist Daisy Rockwells The Little Book of Terror, a new book of paintings and essays, was published in February by Foxhead Books. Rockwell, a frequent contributor (under the name Lapata) ...

06 may 12

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

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06 may 12

Digital Ghosts: The Last American and Dapper John

Just before Christmas last year -- according to the LA Weekly -- Christopher Nolan, director of Inception, gathered together some of Americas best-known filmmakers for a screening with an "ulter...

06 may 12

Croak by Jenny Sampirisi

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06 may 12

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

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05 may 12

What They Are Reading

My father is reading noir. My mother has found Lee Smith. My brother is reading, when he has time, the history of Byzantium. For my lover, novels translated from the French or Russian. My sister, if ...

05 may 12

The World of a Few Minutes Ago by Jack Driscoll

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05 may 12

Strangeland

In 2002, Tracey Emins father faxed her a short narrative describing his early life in his native Turkey. In it, the older Emin recounts with the fantastical eye of a child his youth as a factory work...

05 may 12

The Inevitable Triumph of the Looky Loos?

Is food is the new music? Are all the cool kids starting restaurants these days instead of bands? It would make sense -- great new restaurants share the same sort of energy as cool new bands -- theyr...

05 may 12

The Grief Performance by Emily Kendal Frey

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05 may 12

An Interview with Nathalie Handal

There is something incredibly sincere about Nathalie Handal and her poetry. That seems like a rare thing in literature in the United States today. Perhaps that is because Handal is not exactly from t...

05 may 12

"More Real to Us": the Art of Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag is the writer who first taught me that a critical essay could be every bit as valuable as a work of fiction. I admire her judgment; but I admire the way she expresses her views, her writ...

05 may 12

Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women behind the Worlds Most Daring Explorers by Kari Herbert

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05 may 12

The Art of the Heist: Valuing Art through Its Theft

In November 2010, a Chinese porcelain vase that had been languishing for decades in a suburban London "bungalow" sold for an astonishing 69 million dollars. It catapulted into the ranks of ...

02 apr 12

Old Hat: Reading Toward a Philosophy of the Act

It’s strange too-hot weather for the end of winter. I walk the thirty blocks north to Bryant Park. The books I want to read, according to the New York Public Library website, are kept in a “locked ca...

02 apr 12 1 person likes this

Notturno by Gabriele dAnnunzio, translated by Stephen Sartarelli

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01 apr 12

The Art of Voyeurism in Mumbais Underworld: Mary Ellen Mark, Sonia Faleiro, and Katherine Boo

One of the most beautiful and disturbing books I own is the photographer Mary Ellen Marks Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay (1981). Marks portraits of prostitutes, transvestites, madams, customers...

01 apr 12

Star-Crossed: William Shakespeare and Vladimir Nabokov

Each issue the Star-Crossed column chooses two or more writers who were born during a particular month and talks about their work. April Birthdays: William Shakespeare – born April 23, 1564, Stratf...

01 apr 12

The Poet as Ambassador

I dont know who should be more insulted: Jorge Carrera Andrade because Ive waited to get to Ecuador to read him or Ecuador for my number one concern being Jorge Carrera Andrade. Yes, I came to Quito ...

01 apr 12

Hermit America: The Photography of Alec Soth

Combining an indefatigable commitment to derelict byways with a magpie instinct for cultural bric-a-brac, Alec Soth might be America’s foremost domestic explorer. Born in Minneapolis in 1969, over th...

01 apr 12

An Interview with Lauren Elkin

Set in Venice, Lauren Elkins first novel tells the story of Catherine, an American grad student who has left New York to spend nine months studying early printed manuscripts. Almost immediately, she ...

01 apr 12

A Conversation Between Joseph Harrington and Kathleen Ossip

“I think we all agree, the past is over,” declaimed George W. Bush, but Joseph Harrington and Kathleen Ossip beg to differ. In 2011, they both published books of poetry that explore history’s dark ri...

01 apr 12

An Interview with Genevieve Valentine

When Genevieve Valentine, the kind of blogger who can make everyone want to see a bad movie by celebrating its badness, began publishing short stories, plenty of people noticed. Mostly because dozens...

01 apr 12

The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard edited by Ron Padgett

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30 mar 12

Crusoes Daughter by Jane Gardam

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30 mar 12

The Art of Voyeurism in Mumbais Underworld: Mary Ellen Mark, Sonia Faleiro, and Katherine Boo

One of the most beautiful and disturbing books I own is the photographer Mary Ellen Marks Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay (1981). Marks portraits of prostitutes, transvestites, madams, customers...

30 mar 12

Studs Terkels Chicago by Studs Terkel

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30 mar 12

Postal Pleasures: Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters by Kate Thomas

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30 mar 12

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