June 9th, 2009 / 10:34 pm
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More Harper’s Love

Stuff curated and created by Harper’s Magazine that caused me to purchase a 2-year subscription this evening:  The Yearly Review of 2008, which I found depressing and weirdly calming all at once, all of David Foster Wallace’s essays & stories, especially the presence of Everything Is Green, published 1989, year of my birth, a funny and effective piece titled Poetry Bailout Will Restore Confidence of Readers — c’mon, that’s funny — and the entirety of Sentences, a year-long blog run by Wyatt Mason, fervent literary critic, especially these recent posts in which Wyatt points out that Emerson got distracted too, sans Twitter and email and such, extols the quality of handmade books (score for chapbook makers such as MLP), and walks his audience through/geeks out over the online interactive  multi-draft version of Madame Bovary. Go Harper’s, Wyatt, et al.!

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12 Comments

  1. Ross Brighton

      If you’re interested in handmade books, you can’t go wrong with the work of my fellow countryman Alan Loney. I’ve got a couple of his, and they are gorgeous, but unfortunately very pricey of late.
      If you search Abe’s for the publishers Hawk Press, Black Light Press, Holloway Press or Electio Editions, you’ll see what I mean.

  2. Ross Brighton

      If you’re interested in handmade books, you can’t go wrong with the work of my fellow countryman Alan Loney. I’ve got a couple of his, and they are gorgeous, but unfortunately very pricey of late.
      If you search Abe’s for the publishers Hawk Press, Black Light Press, Holloway Press or Electio Editions, you’ll see what I mean.

  3. Ross Brighton
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  5. Matthew Simmons

      Look for: December 1988, In Our State by Tom Drury; April 2006, High Mobility: In my brother’s Hummer by Colin McAdam; November 2004, Permission by Kevin McIlvoy.

  6. Matthew Simmons

      Look for: December 1988, In Our State by Tom Drury; April 2006, High Mobility: In my brother’s Hummer by Colin McAdam; November 2004, Permission by Kevin McIlvoy.

  7. larry

      You were seriously 7 when IJ came out. Fucking A.

  8. larry

      You were seriously 7 when IJ came out. Fucking A.

  9. Kevin O'Neill

      The archives of magazines really intimidate me. I’ve got the Complete New Yorker DVDs and keep forgetting to hack it to put it on my external HD (the DVD swapping is a pain) and I have so much stuff on there I know I will like. But approaching it is terrifying.

  10. Kevin O'Neill

      The archives of magazines really intimidate me. I’ve got the Complete New Yorker DVDs and keep forgetting to hack it to put it on my external HD (the DVD swapping is a pain) and I have so much stuff on there I know I will like. But approaching it is terrifying.

  11. Jimmy Chen

      ken the next two years are gonna rock man

  12. Jimmy Chen

      ken the next two years are gonna rock man