If writing and the avant-garde have a node point in 2011, it's poet and
critic Kenneth Goldsmith. Over the last two decades he has popularized
techniques of appropriation through his books Traffic (culled from traffic reports) and Day (one entire issue of the New York Times retyped)...Continue Reading
Russell Wangersky & the Pros/Cons of Realism
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Mark Anthony Jarman has a review of Russell Wangersky's new short story
collection, Whirl Away (Thomas Allen, 2012), in today's Globe & Mail.
It's a fine r...
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From June 23-September 25, 2011 la maison rouge in Paris, in conjunction
with Plug-In ICA in Winnipeg, hosted an exhibition of over 70 contemporary
Winnipe...
12 or 20 questions (second series) with Emily Pettit
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*Emily Pettit* is the author of two chapbooks, *How* (Octopus Books) and *What
Happened to Limbo* (Pilot Books), and the trade collection *GOAT IN THE SNOW...
Writing is Hard Work, Not Magic
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*Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are
writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want
the rea...
Audioreview: How They Were Found
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Listened 3/8/12 - 3/15/12
4 Stars - Strongly Recommended to fans of wicked sharp short fiction
Audio Download (approx 6 hrs)
Publisher: *Iambik* / *Keyhole...
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You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left March March 17 in Oxnard, CA Elijah Imlay & Aaron Saroyan March 17 in NY...
Last night in Linares
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Hard to believe it's coming to an end already. A slew of people left today, returning to their various homes or carrying on with further Mexican journeys. On...
Poetry Round Up, Winter/Spring 2012, Part I
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A quick spotlight on new poetry collections you may have missed this past season!Rose McLarney, The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, Four Way BooksThese po...
Our Week of Long Reads
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Here at Harriet HQ, we deal mainly in nugget-sized news tidbits. But we
love a good long read. In the past, this sort of astoundingly pleasant
Chicago weat...
Shakespeare on Robin Hood
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Robin Hood Statue in Nottingham. Shakespeare refers to Robin Hood in The
Two Gentlemen of Verona, one of his earliest plays. In the play Valentine
is bani...
Imitatio is the best form of...
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In a post not long ago, I categorized Kenneth Goldsmith as a "Son of Ben."
After all, as I said, it was Ben Jonson who
... introduced the word "plagi...
Ryan Ridge
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from American Homes
American Guest Rooms
What art offers is space.
Updike said.
The same can be said for moon colonization.
One time I shot for the moon b...
Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear and Isabelle Arsenault
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Kyo Maclear is author of the beloved 2007 novel The Letter Opener and is,
with illustrator Isabelle Arsenault, the force behind the acclaimed Spork.
Her la...
I promise nothing.
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Happy to be shortlisted for a Manitoba Book Award — the John Hirsch Award
for Most Promising Writer. Congratulations to all those shortlisted!
Life Stories #3: Rachel Shukert & Rev Jen
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This episode of Life Stories, my podcast series of interviews with memoir
writers about their lives and the art of memoir, was recorded in front of a
live ...
Reading in Calgary
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I’ve just confirmed that I will be reading as part of the launch of filling
Station #52 at Shelf Life Books (100, 1302 – 4th Street SW) March 23rd at
7:00p...
dollhouse
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I have been posting lots of pictures of the dollhouse on flickr, where
Suzanne Stein recently asked a question. Here it is, with my answer.
1.
suz...
Threshold Songs
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One of the great pleasures of editing the Constant Critic is that my fellow
critics consistently bother me with what they say in their
reviews—providing th...
books that burn turn into torches
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Read an interesting article in the NYT blog by Tim Parks, "E-Books Can't
Burn". It's a good read, but the comments impressed me even more than the
post its...
Danielle Cadena Deulen
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Danielle Cadena Deulen is a poet and essayist. She is the author *Lovely
Asunder*, winner of the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize (University
of Arkan...
Retail 2012: Mansfield Press
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Something of a consistent source of surprise, the little press that is
based in Toronto, but does its poetry from Cobourg. The list this season is
decidly ...
The New Blogging Poet Aggregated
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This account will expire in 8 days so I'm allowing most of what's here to
disappear from the Internet forever but some of my works can be found at BloggingP...
More than a few moons ago, a poet I know asked if I would look over her
manuscript of a forthcoming collection, with the possibility of providing a
bac...
For all that we think of our world as somehow post-feminist, the words
"women's fiction" and "high literature" still seen to occupy different real
estate...
1. The Cairo Souk Last summer I was in Cairo, where my husband goes on
business, and took the opportunity to investigate the Khan el-Khalili souk
and the...
From crime fiction to World Poetry Day readings, here are just a few of the
events happening across the country this week: Hedges chapbook launch,
Librarie...
Lessons in life from Caitlin Moran, Moore echoes of Cather and an important
announcement
On first reading, I thought Workingclassgirl had made a bit of a...
Evan Smith Rakoff
GalleyCat features a helpful writing tool Kurt Vonnegut used; the famed
Strand bookstore in New York City is in the midst of a labo...
Winners of the subTerrian 2011 Lush Triumphant Literary Awards can be found in the newest issue (Winter 2011/#60):Fiction:Michael Kissinger (Vancouver, BC) f...
Here in the office, we want our Descant friends and family to have fun!
That’s why we’ve spent so many sunny Spring days cooped up indoors to put
together ...
Over at the Globe & Mail, Jim Bartley reviews Daniel Griffin's Stopping for
Strangers :
It only takes a page or two to conclude that Daniel Griffin values...
Some of you might just now be getting out of the AWP fog/detox and I can
hardly blame you for the fun you've had. I about lost my mind on the way
home as i...
Come and join us for the launch reading of the new issue of Magma on Monday
5th March at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London, as part of the Coffee
House ...
1913 Press is excited to be launching a brand new collaborative
book--"Conversities" by Dan Beachy-Quick & Srikanth Reddy--at AWP this
week. Please join us...
Editor's Note: After hearing in December that Morgan underwent a lung
transplant, I had been checking his FB page every day for updates from his
family and...
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