(more…)

Enter the Beecher’s poetry and fiction contest and win $500. Judges are Deb Olin Unferth for fiction and Adam Robinson (me) for poetry.

@ The New York Observer, Matthew Hunte weighs in on the newly printed 20 Under 40: Stories from the New Yorker anthology: “Instead of highlighting new talent, they inadvertently end up championing precocity and nurturing a culture where early recognition and promise are conflated with achievement.”

As a follow up to my earlier post on the censorship of Fire in my Belly, someone has gotten a hold of the entire 20 minute Wojnarowicz Super8 film & uploaded it to Vimeo:

A Fire in My Belly from ppow_gallery on Vimeo.

Vice’s 2010 Fiction Issue is out now, with new by Patrick deWitt, Terry Southern, Deb Olin Unferth, and interviews with Amy Hempel, Sam Lipsyte, Edward Albee, more.

“…[Y]ou’ll never become the writer you want to become. You’ll never be satisfied, never really know if you are any good. You’ll never be certain.”—from a 1998 letter by Dean Young to his nephew, the writer Seth Pollins. The entire thing is here, and it’s well worth reading. (Worth relinking to this open letter from Tony Hoagland about Dean’s current medical problems, I think.)

I think if I had to say one book I read this year that killed me the hardest, it would be Pierre Guyotat’s Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers [1967]. I haven’t been able to get it out of my head since. What were your favorite reads of 2010, published in 2010 or otherwise?

Today David Lynch is answering interview questions on his twitter feed: “When I go out, Kathy who cuts my hair has given me a spray, but I don’t know the name of it.” [Q stream found here.]

What books are coming out in 2011 that you’re most excited about?  Indie or major press, doesn’t matter.  This post is semi-selfishly motivated: I’m making my annual personal list of must-read books coming out in the upcoming year.  I want a stack of likely-awesome books to read.

Supervert, apparently the pseudonym of an author creating “sexual pathologies,” who I’ve yet to fully look into his or herself, offers a digital archive of writings by Sade, Bataille, Benn, Baudelaire, more.