Italo Calvino Reading from Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities is Calvino at his thematic and structural best. For more about this amazing book check out his Top 5 and Why. The following excerpt was recorded…
The Disappearance of the Famous Stefan Zweig
“Stefan Zweig was a dark and unorthodox artist; it’s good to have him back.” Salman Rushdie In Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, a writer…
A Movable Innovator’s Fest: 9 Essential Experiments and Game Books
A cornucopia of gaming and literature. The first five are literary, the final four represents a broader spectrum of current cutting edge and theoretical approaches. 1. Many Subtle Channels:…
Julio Cortazar: On Literary Games, Imagination, Reading and Writing
The long gangly arms, the large head still barely containing the wide-set eyes, one almost always set off askance. Julio Cortazar was an imposing presence. Probably…
Clarice Lispector: 2 Primitive Elegant Literary Experiments
My recent “discovery” of Clarice Lispector was like striking gold. It’s funny the way these arcane writers are becoming increasingly known. I won’t dare say popular.…
Multiplying Potential Literature: Daniel Levin Becker’s Many Subtle Channels
Should all “potential” literature become “realized”? Well, no. And that’s one of the subtler explorations such a group as the 1960-founded Oulipo spends time considering. Many Subtle…
Barry Hannah: A Short Ride with the “2nd King” of Mississippi Literature
Will Barry Hannah’s death prompt the sort of popularity that largely eluded him in life–as it does for so many writers? Louis Bourgeois has done his part,…
‘Placing’ Shirley Jackson
“Jackson spares no one her precise, perceptive eye…when I discovered Shirley Jackson, it was as if she’d understood what I wanted, what I needed, and set…
Falling in Love with Fay: Larry Brown’s Most Accomplished Novel
“She came down out of the hills that were growing black with night, and in the dusty road her feet found small broken stones that made…
Larry Brown on Writing
On reading: “Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (from A Writer’s Life by Jean…
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