In Person
August 25, 2010
A Novel in Three Days 8
by Sean Di Lizio
Seventy-two hours to produce a novel? The International 3-Day Novel Contest proves that writing can be an extreme sport.
June 24, 2010
Report from Paris: Kicking around at the Shakespeare and Company Festival 4
by Lauren Elkin
The theme of the festival was “Storytelling and Politics,” and over three days, 6,000 people gathered in a tent in a small park across the river from Notre Dame to hear writers talk through the relationship between the storyteller and his political context. But the World Cup was on everyone’s mind.
March 9, 2010
Sonya Chung at McNally Jackson 3/10 0
by Sonya Chung
Millions Contributor Sonya Chung will read from her just-released novel Long for This World at McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, NYC, on March 10 at 7pm.
December 14, 2009
Jonathan Franzen, Honesty and the Lines of Literature 6
by Daniel Silliman
In Tübingen, Jonathan Franzen talked candidly and casually about his struggles as a writer. En route, though, he made a stealthy attempt to re-frame literature so that he and his project occupied its absolute center.
September 15, 2009
Fear, Imagination, and “Making Things Peculiar” at the Brooklyn Book Festival 3
by Anne K. Yoder
“Gogol was a strange creature, but genius is always strange; it is only your healthy second-rater who seems to the grateful reader to be a wise old friend, nicely developing the reader’s notions of life.”
July 24, 2009
Torch Ballads & Jukebox Music #4: Serenaded by Jonathan Richman 2
by Andrew Saikali
Jonathan Richman, along with his long-time drummer Tommy Larkins, took the stage, strummed his acoustic guitar and began to sing. Nothing. The mikes weren’t working. Where other performers, and indeed lesser legends, might have turned diva, Jonathan simply announced – loudly, to make up for the microphone – that he and the techies would confer [...]
