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Summer 2007 Contributors
Derik Badman blogs at MadInkBeard and writes reviews for various publications.
Chris Eichler studied photography and painting at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. View his work at his website.
Scott Esposito’s writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Small Spiral Notebook, The Chattahoochee Review, Boldtype, and the Rain Taxi Review of Books, among others. He blogs at Conversational Reading.
John Fox has taught at various colleges in the Los Angeles area and is currently studying creative writing at the University of Southern California. His literary blog is BookFox.
Aron Gent is a Chicago-based photographer. He creates large format narrative images dealing with family and the delicate relationships that exist within them. See his website.
Richard Grayson is the author of Highly Irregular Stories, With Hitler in New York, The Silicon Valley Diet, and other books. A retired teacher and lawyer, he divides his time between Brooklyn and Phoenix.
John Allan Harrison lives and reads in Maine.
Contributing editor Barrett Hathcock’s work has appeared in the Colorado Review, the MacGuffin, and the Birmingham Weekly. Read his essay “Howdy Neighbor” from issue 6 here.
Sam Jones writes about fiction and poetry on his Chicago-based literary blog, Golden Rule Jones. He works as an executive at a San Francisco Bay Area software company.
Megan Keane is a yoga instructor in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Javier Moreno will probably go back to Illinois to defend his thesis one of these days. In the meantime, he lives in Barcelona. He is part of the editorial team of Hermano Cerdo, a regular contributor to Pie de Página and Ocho y Medio, and the author of La balada del elefante azul, a blog about elephants and mathematical logic.
The author of numerous novels, Lance Olsen is also chair of Fiction Collective Two’s board of directors and an associate editor with American Book Review. His most recent book is Anxious Pleasures.
Ahmad Saidullah is a writer living in Canada. His book Happiness and Other Disorders: Short Stories will be published in 2008.
Rebecca Smeyne has since shown her work at Jen Bekman Gallery and in Tim Barber’s Tiny Vices. Her work has appeared in Anthem Magazine, the Village Voice, the New York Press, and Chief Magazine. She is also the editor-in-chief and principal photographer for MyOpenBar.com and a guest curator and advisor of the Humble Arts Organization.
Contributing editor Elizabeth Wadell’s work can be read in issues 2, 4, and others.
Scott Bryan Wilson is a frequent contributor to The Quarterly Conversation.
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Bonus Articles
Every Morpheme Counts: The Sam Lipsyte Interview
Lipsyte: Well these were the famous classes that he taught and others have written about it. He would kind of perform an amazing monologue for hours that would be a work of art in and of itself, in the way it was constructed in real time and kept pulling threads through and weaving all these elements together, but the content of it would be reflections on writing and art and what it is to be an artist and how one should approach the page. And then at the end of that—and that could go for four or five hours—at the end of that, he would call on students to read from whatever it was they were working on, but normally you wouldn't get too far, because he would stop you probably within a sentence or two and point out all that was false in what you had perpetrated.
PROPOSAL FOR TALK ON “GRANTS, PROPOSALS, AND QUERIES,” TO BE DELIVERED AT THE 2010 AWP CONFERENCE, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, COLORADO CONVENTION CENTER, STREET LEVEL, ROOM 203, 9:00 AM
In the brief essay that J.C. Hallman will deliver at a panel discussion at the 2010 AWP Conference in Denver, Hallman will offer up his own insights as to the nature of this admittedly flawed practice. The essay will be, to some extent, experimental. It will have a self-referential quality, it will aspire to innovation, indeed it will even be accurate to describe it as "meta-," but of course Hallman will use none of these terms, though he would like to. Book proposals are not places for words like innovation and experimentation. Instead, Hallman's essay will be "quirky and fun."
Lectures from the Argentine Master: Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges
Seven Nights Jorge Luis Borges (trans. Eliot Weinberger). New Directions. $12.95, 128pp. In Seven Nights, the recently re-released collection of lectures-turned-essays originally given in Buenos Aires in 1977, Borges does not discuss the phenomenon of déjà vu. He does, however, speak at great length about nightmares and dreams, which he describes as “a kind of modest [...]
The So-Called Other Europe: Best European Fiction 2010 edited by Aleksandar Hemon
Best European Fiction 2010 edited by Aleksandar Hemon, preface by Zadie Smith. Dalkey Archive Press.448 pp, $15.95. “The great pest of speech is frequency of translation,” Samuel Johnson once wrote, in the preface to his iconic Dictionary of the English Language: No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native [...]
Field Guides to Elsewhere: How We Read Languages We Don’t Read
“There are, of course, newspapers to keep responsible Americans up to date when trouble looms, and public television or even the History Channel to inform us about the occasional historic battle or archaeological discovery or civil war. What else do we need?” Claudia Roth Pierpont frames her essay on the contemporary Arabic novel, published in [...]
Summer 2007
Table of Contents for Issue 8
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New NYRB
New issue of the New York Review of Books is out, with Colm Tóibín on exile lit.
More from the NBCC Awards
With jokes from Joyce Carol Oates and "wild imaginings" from 92-year-old winner Diana Athill -- not to mention talk of a sequel from "Wolf Hall" author Hilary Mantel -- this year's NBCC Awards were noteworthy for their celebration of literature by women.
Broom of the System Gets Cover Makeover, Plus One Cover I Love and One I Hate
DFW's latest cover makeover, plus a great-looking cover and a really not-so-great-looking cover.
Rereading Wallace Stevens
Since buying The Selected Poems of Wallace Stevens at City Lights, I’ve been rereading many Stevens poems and trying to understand it from a more mature perspective. Last time I read a vast amount of Stevens was when I was 22 for a class on Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Yeats, and Marianne Moore. With fifteen years [...]
Best Translated Book Award 2010
The 2010 Best Translated Book Awards were announced last night at Idlewild Books, Manhattan. The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven, translated by Dalya Bilu won the fiction award, and the poetry award went to Elena Fanailova for The Russian Version, translated from the Russian by Genya Turovskaya and Stephanie Sandler. Check out the [...]
NBCCA
The National Book Critics Circle Award is announcing their winners tonight. The diversity of their nominations, from the better known (such as Hilary Mantel and Mary Karr) to the less mainstream (such as Rachel Zucker and Eula Biss), makes the blog entries on the nominees an interesting read. I added Stephen Burt’s Close Calls with [...]
Different Ways of Translating al-Khamissi
Translator Jonathan Wright said last night that he felt, for the English-language reader, "religious references [in Arabic literature] are in general problematic."
Dear Camera: Bees and Poems. “An accidental molting”
Poems and Paintings by Salena Gerdes and Joseph P. Wood in the newest issue of Dear Camera
Norwegian Wood Film Adaptation
Haruki Murakami’s breakout novel, Norwegian Wood, is being made to a film. But wait! There’s more! It’s being scored by Radiohead.
Out of Print, Out of Mind
To mark the one-year anniversary of his outstanding literary webzine, The Second Pass, editor John Williams asked a whole bunch of reading folks to wax on about their favorite OP titles.
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Bonus Articles
Every Morpheme Counts: The Sam Lipsyte Interview
Lipsyte: Well these were the famous classes that he taught and others have written about it. He would kind of perform an amazing monologue for hours that would be a work of art in and of itself, in the way it was constructed in real time and kept pulling threads through and weaving all these elements together, but the content of it would be reflections on writing and art and what it is to be an artist and how one should approach the page. And then at the end of that—and that could go for four or five hours—at the end of that, he would call on students to read from whatever it was they were working on, but normally you wouldn't get too far, because he would stop you probably within a sentence or two and point out all that was false in what you had perpetrated.
PROPOSAL FOR TALK ON “GRANTS, PROPOSALS, AND QUERIES,” TO BE DELIVERED AT THE 2010 AWP CONFERENCE, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, COLORADO CONVENTION CENTER, STREET LEVEL, ROOM 203, 9:00 AM
In the brief essay that J.C. Hallman will deliver at a panel discussion at the 2010 AWP Conference in Denver, Hallman will offer up his own insights as to the nature of this admittedly flawed practice. The essay will be, to some extent, experimental. It will have a self-referential quality, it will aspire to innovation, indeed it will even be accurate to describe it as "meta-," but of course Hallman will use none of these terms, though he would like to. Book proposals are not places for words like innovation and experimentation. Instead, Hallman's essay will be "quirky and fun."
Lectures from the Argentine Master: Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges
Seven Nights Jorge Luis Borges (trans. Eliot Weinberger). New Directions. $12.95, 128pp. In Seven Nights, the recently re-released collection of lectures-turned-essays originally given in Buenos Aires in 1977, Borges does not discuss the phenomenon of déjà vu. He does, however, speak at great length about nightmares and dreams, which he describes as “a kind of modest [...]
The So-Called Other Europe: Best European Fiction 2010 edited by Aleksandar Hemon
Best European Fiction 2010 edited by Aleksandar Hemon, preface by Zadie Smith. Dalkey Archive Press.448 pp, $15.95. “The great pest of speech is frequency of translation,” Samuel Johnson once wrote, in the preface to his iconic Dictionary of the English Language: No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native [...]
Field Guides to Elsewhere: How We Read Languages We Don’t Read
“There are, of course, newspapers to keep responsible Americans up to date when trouble looms, and public television or even the History Channel to inform us about the occasional historic battle or archaeological discovery or civil war. What else do we need?” Claudia Roth Pierpont frames her essay on the contemporary Arabic novel, published in [...]
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