May 14th, 2010 / 1:55 pm
 Roundup

Some Stuff

Semester is finally over and now I feel like I have so much to tell you about…

Jessica Smith is compiling “An evolving, informal and incomplete list of contemporary female poets writing in (or translated to) English”

David Shields has an interesting interview at 3QD, in which he offers “A Very Partial Reading List” of his 120 favorite books ever written

Fukuyama reviews Julian Young’s biography of Nietzsche

Thalia Field has a new book out, which she co-wrote with Abigail Lang, called A Prank of Georges

U of Georgia Press is holding their annual Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

MLP has announced that anyone who pre-orders Sasha Fletcher’s WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED before June 1st will receive a free copy of a companion chapbook called THE WORLD CHANGES AS IT WRAPS AROUND YOU.

Larry Fondation reviews Vanessa Place’s La Medusa

Bradley Sands has a new book out called My Heart Said No, But the Camera Crew Said Yes!

Oh, and here is David Lynch’s short film “The Alphabet” (1968)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmMwKBMse_w&feature=player_embedded

14 Comments

  1. May 14th, 2010 / 2:00 pm davidpeak—

      i read Fondation review this morning and immediately ordered La Medusa afterward. really looking forward to reading it.

  2. May 14th, 2010 / 4:28 pm Ned Vizzini—

      Thank you for the Shields list!

  3. May 14th, 2010 / 5:39 pm jh—

      He likes Nabokov’s shortish essay on Gogol, but does not list any of Gogol’s works. Huh.

  4. May 14th, 2010 / 6:00 pm davidpeak—

      i read Fondation review this morning and immediately ordered La Medusa afterward. really looking forward to reading it.

  5. May 14th, 2010 / 6:06 pm Merzmensch—

      Awesome. Never thought, alphabet could be so intensively creepy. Lynch at his best!

  6. May 14th, 2010 / 8:28 pm Ned Vizzini—

      Thank you for the Shields list!

  7. May 14th, 2010 / 8:42 pm Alec Niedenthal—

      “One of the central concepts in Nie­tzsche’s philosophy was the “eternal return of the same,” that is, the need to affirm the value of one’s life in every single detail as something to be repeated endlessly through time.”

      Uh, that’s kind of very wrong.

  8. May 14th, 2010 / 9:31 pm David—

      fukuyama is a bankrupt institution unto himself

  9. May 14th, 2010 / 9:39 pm jh—

      He likes Nabokov’s shortish essay on Gogol, but does not list any of Gogol’s works. Huh.

  10. May 14th, 2010 / 10:06 pm Merzmensch—

      Awesome. Never thought, alphabet could be so intensively creepy. Lynch at his best!

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  12. May 15th, 2010 / 12:42 am Alec Niedenthal—

      “One of the central concepts in Nie­tzsche’s philosophy was the “eternal return of the same,” that is, the need to affirm the value of one’s life in every single detail as something to be repeated endlessly through time.”

      Uh, that’s kind of very wrong.

  13. May 15th, 2010 / 1:31 am David—

      fukuyama is a bankrupt institution unto himself

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