April 2011
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a pile of stuff #14
If you didn’t know much about the Dalkey Archive, other than that it sounds like it’s named after a novel by Flann O’Brien, you will find this news article from the Irish Independent handy. It’s good to know who is the leading independent publisher of translated works in Europe, after all. (And they’ve just opened an office in Trinity College, Dublin, too.)
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“Interpretation and ambiguity are at the heart of the story of the Passion. By...”
– Owen Sheers on the creation of a Passion play for Port Talbot - The Guardian
I know of Sheers because of his wonderful poetry series for the Beeb, A Poet’s Guide to Britain, which I own on DVD. (Described on this page, scroll down. His website has many more terrific links to follow…)
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Robert Louis Stevenson gets his revenge on sneaky... →
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“This is not the first time someone has married art and microbiology. In 2003, US...”
– How does a poet ensure his work lives for ever?
(Stephen Joyce is such a bloody party pooper.)
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“I kept every piece of jewelry he ever gave me. (Ellen Barkin, of Gabriel Byrne.)”
– Ellen Barkin is No Uptown Girl - NYTimes.com
She is a classy woman indeed. Link via Maud.
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bookfutures: tools funds tomes and libroids →
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E-Book Sales Surpass Print: Is This a Win or a... →
Audrey Watters:
The AAP suggests that this surge is a continuation of post-holiday sales, as people buy e-books to load onto the e-readers they received as gifts. Whether or not this trend will continue long after the novelty of new tech toys wears off remains to be seen.
What’s also worth watching: not simply the sales of new titles, but the renewed consumer interest in old titles,...
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A Note on ProPublica’s Second Pulitzer Prize →
Congratulations to Pro Publica, whom I have been following on Twitter for a few months now after a tip from Jay Rosen:
This is ProPublica’s second Pulitzer Prize in as many years. Last year, ProPublica reporter Sheri Fink won a Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting for her article “The Deadly Choices at Memorial,” on euthanasia at a New Orleans hospital in the wake of...
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At The Conversation, Megan Le Masurier asks, "how... →
(Click on the header to go to the full post.)
Cleo was a translating machine. The women’s liberation movement was mainly in the hands of educated middle class women who used the language of revolution. Most ordinary women found this terrifying.
It took a magazine like Cleo, with an inspired and inspiring editor, a supportive mainstream publisher in Kerry Packer, a talented staff who tapped into...
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“‘Anything you want – love stories, murders, whatever – can be written in...”
– Roddy Doyle: A life in writing | Books | The Guardian
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Poem Flow: a poem a day on your iThingy →
this is nicely done, even if Silliman says this in his Chinese Notebook at no. 21:
Poem in a notebook, manuscript, magazine, book, reprinted in an anthology. Scripts and contexts differ. How could it be the same poem?
I imagine the two contingencies can roll along together though.
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Lagerfeld, sweetie, Lagerfeld: book 'fragrance'... →
Thanks to @melvillehouse (Melville House Publishers) on Twitter, and @LeeRourke for the link.
I must say that George Szirtes writes a very fine... →
There is something jowly and pugnacious about English, however you sing it, however Keatsian you get with your vowels and sensory delights. It will not easily relinquish its empiricism.
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not exactly a pile of stuff, really just a few...
The Paris Review is having a James Salter month and posted an interview recently. They are also posting some of his stories from their archives. Click here for more things Salter.
The Britannica blog has gone all out commemorating the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the American Civil War.
I really don’t think Peter Conrad likes this book.
Fiona Wright, Sydneyside editor and poet,...
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“She is prolific and consistent if not as widely read as she should be. Her...”
– Don’t Call Her Experimental: Lynne Tillman’s Realism Of Indeterminacy | The New York Observer
Interview interrupted at the end by no less a person than Colm Toibin. Oh the excitement.
Tillmann’s new book is published by Richard Nash’s new imprint, Red Lemonade. Her back...
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Something called happiness | Inside Story - Jane... →
I went along to this mainly because I needed to get out of the house - I haven’t quite finished reading the essay even now, but I am rather pleased that Goodall picks up on something I had felt uneasy about:
There’s something a little uncomfortable about this use of the pronoun “we.” Perhaps it’s a reasonable assumption that the Quarterly Essay will not find its way to a cell in a gulag,...
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maud's fine interview with Philip Connors is up at... →
“However, the best thing about that job was that our offices were next door to...”
– This is NOT me reminiscing, by the way - but us Gs should stick together. (And I watched most of Russian Dolls on SBS last night.)
My Own Private Soapdish / Genevieve reminisces, as an era ends. (via gwendabond)
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“The fact is that in the end, it came on its own
With such ease, and through...”
– Goatfish Alphabet by Kristen McHenry is reviewed here by Dave Bonta.
You can read the whole of ‘Forgiveness’ here, and he has found links to a few of the other poems, too. Via dumbfoundry.
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Blogging the London Book Fair 2011 - Jacqui... →
Jacqui heard Kazuo Ishiguro say of serious novels and e-publishing that:
He wondered if a system of patronage might have to make a come-back; he commented that he had been offered £10,000 by a diamond manufacturer to write a short story that included product placement! Needless to say, he turned it down.
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“The young man recognised me from a few television commercials I’d done in recent...”
– The Uncomfortable Bus: Fast Tells Chair How To Sound.
Tumblr, meet my daughter, she’s a kooky young Melbourne comedian. With a blog and a Comedy Festival show THAT STARTS ON THURSDAY.
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my review of Arthur Phillips' Angelica is up at... →
among other fine things of course.
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richardnash:
RT @NumeroCinq555: The Substitute, a sly, sexy, fiercely smart story by Lynne Tillman: http://t.co/0J3xuyE
Read it, y’all.
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that Powerpoint from the Goon Squad is online,... →
…probably looks a bit more like one here than it does in the book? (I wouldn’t know because I haven’t looked at it yet.)
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This Téa Obreht interview at Full-Stop.net looks... →
James L. Brooks on Journalism, the Oscars, and... →
Ooooh! Lovely. This is one of my favourite films. ‘I really a lot appreciate’ them posting this at longreads:
We filmed it almost entirely in sequence. We even broke up the newsroom scenes just so we could shoot the picture in sequence. And that means we kept informing ourselves. That means we woke up and these things happened with people in the sequence they’re supposed to happen....
The Granta Podcast Episode 14: in which Dinaw... →
…about the trip he made to Eastern Congo for Granta…Dinaw reads from his essay, ‘They Always Come in the Night’, before reflecting on the complexity of the conflict in Eastern Congo and the role of a foreign reporter in such an environment.
His essay is in the latest issue of Granta, Aliens.
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a pile of stuff #13
Did I know Google Reader doesn’t work well on a mobile device? I DID NOT KNOW THAT. Richard McManus at ReadWriteWeb reports on mobile RSS readers. Another RWW maven also provides ten top tech Twitter links one might just have missed.
Chris Boyd, The Australian’s theatre critic, provides a beautifully written review of Bill Henson’s show at Tolarno on his blog, The Morning...
“The novelist is… like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided....”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 204, David Mitchell
Although…it’s usually a bit messy even with help. As I’m sure he knows.
Words for Christchurch - a poem from Kevin Ireland... →
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eAtlas of Global Development from the World Bank →
Thanks to a specialist library e-list, here is an online atlas of global development from Harper Collins and the World Bank. The e-Atlas appears alongside the third edition of a print atlas, and is seen by the World Bank as ‘an important contribution to the World Bank’s Open Data Initiative’:
Developed in collaboration with HarperCollins, the e-Atlas of Global Development...
March 2011
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