Each month in Postscript, Anna Knoebel revisits letters from prominent writers and other artists to revive the dying art of letter writing. Anna is the editor and co-publisher of Abe’s Penny, a magazine of arts and literature delivered in the form of postcards. With our easy access to instant messenger and video chat, it’s hard [...]
POSTSCRIPT: A letter from Samuel Morse
January 30, 2012 Abes Penny, Anna Knoebel, morse code, Postscript, Regular Contributor, samuel l morse, Samuel Morse, The OutletBoy With a Blog in His Side – Largehearted Lit’s 10th Anniversary at WORD Brooklyn
January 27, 2012 Alina Simone, anniversary party, Brooklyn, David Gutowski, Dish, Emma Straub, fiction, Greenpoint, Jennifer Gilmore, Largehearted Boy, Largehearted Lit, literary, NYC, Other People We Married, Reading, Regular Contributor, Ryan Chang, Something Red, The Outlet, WORD, WORD Brooklyn1. WORD’s “Vandalized by Author” wall. There weren’t any phone numbers. 2. Jen Gillmore, Dead Heads, joints. David Gutowski, of Largehearted Boy and most recently Book Boroughing, describes himself on his Twitter bio as such: “I read and write and listen to music. A lot.” This is all you really need to know about Gutowski and his blog, [...]
LAST NIGHT’S LIT PARTY… Bookforum Release Party!
January 27, 2012 Bookforum, Cassie Hay, Chelsea, Dish, Hotel Americano, literary, Manhattan, NYC, Regular Contributor, release party, The Outlet1. Mike Winston works at The Barbarian Group and takes his Scotch on the rocks. 2. Cheers! Amy Bryant, blogger and budding PR maven. 3. Literature as bar napkin. Wednesday night marked the latest of Bookforum‘s increasingly notorious Issue Release parties, this one at Hotel Americano. I’d never seen the hotel before (hell, I’d never [...]
BEYOND BOOKS: The 12th Annual Edwardian Ball
January 25, 2012 Beyond Books, Dish, Edward Gorey, Edwardian Ball, Jesús Ángel García, News, Poetry, Regular Contributor, The Iron Tonic, The OutletBeyond Books is based on the premise that “leading a literary life” is not only about reading and writing and editing and solitude; it’s about complete cultural immersion and exploring the language of every lived experience. San Francisco freaks and geeks who like to play dress-up and waltz beyond the midnight hour celebrated the macabre [...]
World Book Night Wants You
January 25, 2012 ann patchett, Benjamin Samuel, Carl Lennertz, Dave Eggers, Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Díaz, News, Patti Smith, The Outlet, World Book Night, World Book Night 2012If you’re reading this, chances are you won’t be receiving one of the 1,000,000 books World Book Night is giving away. But you still can (and should) take part. Everyone has a friend who doesn’t read (or doesn’t read enough), and those are the people World Book Night is targeting. On April 23, WBN will [...]
From P-Town… A Salon Grows in Portland
January 24, 2012 Bryan Coffelt, Chloe Caldwell, Dish, Donald Dunbar, Edward Mullany, Evan P. Schneider, fiction, If Not for Kidnap, Jamalieh Haley, Judith Ossello, Kevin Sampsell, literary, nonfiction, Poetry, Portland, Reading, Regular Contributor, The Outlet, The We Shared Milk1. A smoker’s view of SE Mall Street around 7:45pm. 2. The kitchen meets the dining room at the intersection of Dunbar and Coffelt. On Friday, If Not for Kidnap, a living room poetry series curated by Donald Dunbar and Jamalieh Haley, brought Kevin Sampsell, Edward Mullany, Chloe Caldwell, Bryan Coffelt and The We [...]
Interview with Victoria Patterson, Author of This Vacant Paradise
January 24, 2012 Drift, fiction, Interview, Julia Jackson, literary, Regular Contributor, Southern California, The Outlet, This Vacant Paradise, Victoria PattersonIn 2008, I was just a lowly undergrad at UC Riverside, finishing up my senior year. I was a creative writing major, and I had Victoria Patterson for one of my craft classes. Patterson was awaiting the publication of her first short story collection, Drift (Mariner Books), which she had worked on while in the [...]
REVIEW: The Tender Hour of Twilight by Richard Seaver
January 24, 2012 Book Review, FSG, Regular Contributor, Review, Richard Seaver, Samuel Beckett, Stephen Spencer, The Outlet, The Tender Hour of TwilightThe Tender Hour of Twilight Richard Seaver FSG 480 pp / $35 We usually eat up memoirs of public figures, past or present, loved or loathed, because their lives, quite simply, are more interesting than ours. Take George W. Bush’s Decision Points, for example (presently loathed): the 43rd president argues that all the decisions he [...]
Why We Need You, Blue… Tom Agnotti at Bluestockings
January 23, 2012 activism, Bluestockings, Craig Moreau, Dish, fiction, literary, Manhattan, NYC, Reading, Regular Contributor, The Outlet, Tom Agnotti1. $1 for a cup o’ Joe. 2. Angotti standing behind his bookcover (not to scale). Sitting front row, with a book authored by Fidel Castro to my left and murmurings from book buyers to my right, I knew I was in the welcoming-yet-active atmosphere of Bluestockings located at 172 Allen Street. If you haven’t [...]
REVIEW: The Death of Arthur by Peter Ackroyd
January 23, 2012 Book Review, game of thrones, Jessica Pishko, King Arthur, knights of the round table, middle english, Peter Ackroyd, Regular Contributor, retelling, Review, staying power, the death of king arthur, The OutletThe Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend Peter Ackroyd Viking 336 pp / $26.95 In Monty Python and the Holy Grail – a touchstone for any contemporary retelling of the Arthurian legends – knightly valor and violence are reduced (or enhanced, depending on your sense of humor) to Arthur’s encounter with the Black Knight. [...]