Something that slipped past us is the Clarice Lispector roundtable discussion hosted by Scott Esposito with Barbara Epler of New Directions and Lispector translator/biographer Benjamin Moser. The conversation is to mark the re-translation and re-publication of five of Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer’s books. Read: The Clarice Lispector Roundtable at The Quarterly Conversation.
Afternoon Bites: William Gibson, Clarice Lispector, Robert Christgau, and more
Graeme McMillan says a number of smart things about the overlap of music & comics, touching on everything from Phonogram to the Neil Gaiman-written/Alice Cooper-featuring The Last Temptation. McMillan’s new blog The World That’s Coming is also highly recommended for fans of smart music writing. Hey, it’s Robert Christgau’s favorite albums of 2011. William Gibson is interviewed in The Paris Review. Magdalena Edwards on Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star. Victor LaValle contributes to Full Stop’s “The Situation in American Writing” […]
Indexing: How much Wodehouse can you take(?), Cannery Row, Lispector, L.A. Review of Books podcast, and much more
A roundup of things consumed by our contributors. Tobias Carroll We’ve got two weeks of reading here. This….might take a while. Though it’s a strange cosmic joke that I made my way through the 850-page novel on the list to follow faster than nearly everything else on it.
Afternoon Bites: Patti Smith, Judge Dredd, Clarice Lispector, and more
Via Alexander Chee, Sven Birkerts on writer’s block: “Mood is relevant, certainly, but it is not sufficient. Mood, the vibration of one’s psychological state — the momentary expression of the felt relation to the world. It is as all-determining and elusive as weather.” New fiction from Adam Wilson, at The Paris Review. Patti Smith wrote music inspired by the letters of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe. At Flavorwire, Emily Temple looks at 2011’s most overlooked books. Alyssa Rosenberg on Judge […]