July 2009

Current and Recent Reading

  I started writing about Roberto Bolaño’s The Skating Rink for this post and got carried away because it was turning into a book review and I haven’t even

Paul Auster Interview Video

  Paul Auster fans probably know already that his next novel, Invisible is coming out this fall. Here’s an interview with Auster from his home in Brooklyn by

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Hat’s Off to Bruce Adolphe

  Wow, this is really great. My friend Bruce Adolphe, whom, sadly, we’ve not seen much of since the twins were born (which is why I’m only just seeing this),

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Steve Lehman

  Just discovered Steve Lehman today thanks to Elyssa East. Yes, it’s true I’ve spent most of my music listening energy the last few years trying to find stuff

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June 2009

Muldoon on Colbert

  Paul Muldoon is unique among poets. First, he can “successfully” write poems about rock singers he has known (sadly, Warren Zevon) and secondly, he has the

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Life on Mars, by Jean Thompson

  Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and I are exactly the same age, and though surely I must have spent some years growing up and learning to read, I can’t

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Support Your Indie Press: Read Like a Pig

  From my friends at the excellent Two Dollar Radio. Buy it

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The International Version…

  of my weekend reading suggestions is posted at Words Without Borders. In addition to that I’d add this brief piece at the Christian Science Monitor

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Trib On Dalkey Archive

  The Chicago Tribune has a nice piece on Dalkey Archive Press: In the past, Dalkey was known chiefly for its reprints of books that had gone out of

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Infinite Summer, Why Not?

  Next up, Infinite Summer, a reading of Infinite Jest from June 21st to Sept. 22nd with online guides and a discussion

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More Connections

  Besides being in my old neighborhood I’ve really been enjoying these videos by Open Book TV, as I mentioned yesterday, for their focus on storytelling and how

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Open Book TV

  I recently stumbled upon Open Book TV. I found it from stopping by the Greenlight Bookstore blog to see their new location in my former neighborhood Fort

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New Words Without Borders: Writing from Pakistan

  As always, Words Without Borders is a place for the unexpected, a place to flex your brain past the usual Brooklyn-based writer (not that there’s anything

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May 2009

Me and You and Everyone We Don’t Know: Twitter Notes from BEA

  Craig Morgan Teicher (@cteicher), whom I briefly met at the Coffee House Press (@Coffee_House_) booth at #BEA09, wrote a piece on Twitter (I’m at @budparr)

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As it Should Be…

  From a brief interview with John Ashbery at Boston.com Q. Your poetry has been described as difficult. How much work should poetry require of the

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Poetic Lines in Images

  My first connection with poetry as a kid was a grade school project where I had to find images that related to some poems that I (think) I chose. I only

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April 2009

PEN World Voices Festival at Words Without Borders

  As you may know I’m the blog editor at Words Without Borders, which is where I’ve been devoting a lot of my energies lately (as opposed to this site). Words

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New Old Leonard Cohen Documentary

  I haven’t yet seen the new new Leonard Cohen documentary (which isn’t new now since it came out in 2005), “I’m Your Man,” but I found this short 44 minute

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The Count of Monte Cristo

  by Mark Sarvas Back in the 1990s, I was a struggling screenwriter between gigs trying to decide what I should write next. I was eating dinner with another

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Perhaps This is the Problem with Publishing…

  “Publishers are going to be confronted with the idea that either the words on the page have to be completely compelling on their own, or they have to figure

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March 2009

Ferlinghetti Film

  I recently bought a copy of Stop Smiling for the Roberto Bolaño interview and turns out the thing was chock full of interesting interviews. Also there was a

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A Brief Appreciation of Etgar Keret

  I just posted “A Brief Appreciation of Etgar Keret” at Words Without

The Way In

  Catching up on friends’ blogs this weekend I saw Laura Schenone’s (f.d. Laura is a client) brief reflection on photography, imagery and literature. Here’s the

The Internet is Booming

  Here are some new sites for lit: “Second Pass” is a new general book review site. “Bacacay: The Polish Literature Weblog” looks promising, and named after

Tonight: Conversation on Etgar Keret with Phillip Lopate and Miriam Shlesinger

  A must-see event for Etgar Keret fans. Words Without Borders is putting on its latest in the Conversations on Great Contemporary Literature Series tonight at

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Such a long time since I have read any Muldoon. I will look for that WZ poem. Thanks.

– genevieve
on “Muldoon on Colbert”

I love Ish (not least for his continued advocacy for children of war around the world) and Open Book TV. And of course Madiba is always great. I think I could have done with fewer mystical echoing flutes-of-sadness though. 

About the ICC: such an important struggle, and so anathema to the idea of American Exceptionalism we are all raised on. That, along with the debate over humanitarian intervention, look to be the defining international issues of our time exactly because they cannot be reduced to simple dichotomies, or even unambiguous moral stances. By which I mean to say I’m looking forward to the film.

– Dustin
on “More Connections”

Thanks, Sven. Who knew I’d be blog of the week somewhere, anywhere… Nice to know.

– Bud Parr
on “New Words Without Borders: Writing from Pakistan”