Quick Hits
October 14, 2009
Small Presses and Nobel Prize Glory 9
by C. Max Magee
The day after the Nobel was announced, the press had 3,000 backorders for Müller’s book Nadirs.
September 30, 2009
Domo Arigato, Mr. Erratum 5
by Jeff Martin
To build his or her collection, the collector of this niche item has to do nothing more than sit around and read. Didn’t find one? Well, maybe next time. No big deal. It was still a pretty good book, right?
August 24, 2009
Magic for Grown-Ups 0
by Garth Risk Hallberg
Wands and fairies – er, faeries – were never my thing, but John Crowley’s Aegypt Cycle is a revelation.
August 3, 2009
Dispatches from Vilnius 0
by Anne K. Yoder
Three flights and twenty hours after departing New York, I arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania, the land of potato pancakes, sour cream, and Baltas beer, where “thank you” is pronounced “achoo,” like a sneeze. Vilnius is the city closest to the geographical center of Europe, and because it’s also at a cultural crossroads, the city has [...]
July 30, 2009
Parker’s Back… The Anthology: Seeking the Literarily Tattooed 0
by Emily Colette Wilkinson
If you’ve got a portrait of Pushkin on your back or the complete text of The Waste Land on your shins, aspiring anthologists Justin Taylor and Eva Talmadge want you! Here’s their call for images of literary tattoos: We are seeking high quality photographs of your literary tattoos for an upcoming book. Send us your [...]
July 26, 2009
Pynchon by Way of ‘Sally Forth’ 0
by C. Max Magee
Readers of the Sunday funnies may have spotted an odd juxtaposition somewhere between “Garfield” and “Beetle Bailey” this morning. “Sally Forth” writer Ces Marciuliano has reimagined the opening lines of Pynchon’s postmodern classic Gravity’s Rainbow as a baseball-themed essay by grade-schooler Hilary. We will be running an essay here on literary mashups tomorrow, but this [...]
