March 2008
- This Man is Sick I Tell You, But We Want Him
- by Bud Parr on 03/31/08 (2 comments)
- Burt on Ashbery
- by Bud Parr on 03/28/08 (5 comments)
- The Truth about John Ashbery’s Poems
- by Bud Parr on 03/28/08 (0 comments)
- And More Free Stuff, almost
- by Bud Parr on 03/27/08 (0 comments)
- More Free Stuff
- by Bud Parr on 03/27/08 (0 comments)
- Literary Tangents: Champion on Baker
- by Bud Parr on 03/21/08 (0 comments)
- Pen World Voices Festival Schedule now available
- by Bud Parr on 03/20/08 (1 comments)
- “Here May You See the Tyrant” - Notes on the Goold/Stewart Macbeth at BAM
- by Bud Parr on 03/17/08 (0 comments)
- Don’t Worry, Be Sad
- by Bud Parr on 03/15/08 (1 comments)
- Laura Kinsale on “Pay the Writer”
- by Laura Kinsale on 03/14/08 (5 comments)
- Harlan Ellison “Pay the Writer”
- by Bud Parr on 03/13/08 (2 comments)
- The New Face of Bookselling?
- by Bud Parr on 03/12/08 (1 comments)
- I think Chad Nails It on Titlepage.tv
- by Bud Parr on 03/05/08 (0 comments)
- A New Book TV Show on the Net
- by Bud Parr on 03/03/08 (1 comments)
- Ana Maria post on Free Books
- by Bud Parr on 03/03/08 (3 comments)
- New Poets & Writers Website
- by Bud Parr on 03/03/08 (0 comments)
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“Ashbery – born in 1927 – has gone on writing his poems, and writing them faster than most of us can read them.”
- Stephen Burt in “John Ashbery, a poet for our times” Times Literary Supplement
“Baker pointed out that for every book he has written, he would generally get one third of the way into it before “something goes wrong.” Then, he sets it aside. But he had been working on a book-length history of the Library of Congress, dwelling in particular upon Archibald MacLeish, who was the Librarian of Congress in 1939. MacLeish would go onto become a key propaganda figure during the war. And thus Baker found himself immersed in “an interpretive problem.” He had to understand World War II. So he put aside this project and Human Smoke began to take shape.”
- Ed Champion on Nicholson Baker
“If you find Elbow’s music glum and depressing, you’re missing the point. Anyone who considers Elbow, Radiohead etc in any way miserable needs to spend some time finding the real beauty in this world of ours, for I fear that those folks are taking the whole thing on face value only. Let a little sadness into your lives and see how happy it can make you.”
- Simon Collison on Elbow’s “The Seldom Seen Kid”
“For instance, in the new shop, she’d like to offer tie-in products with books on certain subjects, i.e., yoga mats near the wellness shelf or wooden spoons near the cookbooks.”
- The New York Observer on Sarah McNally’s plans for a new bookstore on the Upper West Side
“Here’s my prediction though: Lots of people will watch this and think—hell, it’s not that hard to put together an internet show that’s at least this good. A bunch of different programs will suddenly come into existence, a few of which are actually quite good. Around the time that we find out that one of these new ones is 10 times more popular than Titlepage there will be a big media backlash against these “amateur” programmers, dismissing internet programs as “not the real thing.” A divisive spat will ensue mimicing the whole bloggers vs. print thing, and readers will be back where they started with nothing worth watching.”
