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“Twenty lines a day, genius or not.”
Who’s this guy? What? You don’t know? It’s Stendhal! Who decided at one time or another that he would write “twenty lines a day, genius or not.” If that isn’t genius, I don’t know what is. Some time...
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Start Suffering
“You suffer The Lime Twig like a dream. It seems to be something that is happening to you, that you want to escape from but can’t.” - Flannery O’Connor *** The stakes get raised again. After reading...
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Contemporary Verse Novels: Jacques Roubaud’s SOME THING BLACK and Alix Cleo...
I first heard about these two books from M. Kitchell’s post at HTML Giant. I went to the Dalkey Archives website and read: “In 1983 Jacques Roubaud’s wife Alix Cleo died at the age of 31 of a...
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William Gaddis Interview
“Saul Steinberg, the artist, said one of the major problems for the creative person is to avoid boredom. . . . If I’m bored, the reader is bored. There are writers that we know—we needn’t name them—I...
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Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2016!
Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers. I asked a number of writers, editors, and publishers to...
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