We are all in the gutter, and most of us have our minds firmly entrenched there. Certainly that’s the case with the lovelorn desperadoes who populate the personal ads of The London Review of Books. Like most of us, they’re looking for love but willing to settle for a little dirty action…yet what separates these [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Fire At the End of the Rainbow
March 23, 2010 – 4:49 pm
Fire At the End of the Rainbow, the first book by Shawn Vandor, is a poised and unusual performance, an autobiography made of very brief chapters which eschew the typical surreality of short prose forms in favor of a less experimental, more vernacular directness. It begins with jokey pieces about men confronting men, but steadily [...]
Letters to Jackie Kennedy
March 9, 2010 – 5:52 am
More than a million people wrote letters to Jackie Kennedy after her husband’s assassination. Some were famous, like Langston Hughes, but most were just normal people, sending their condolences and expressing their sadness and bewilderment. In her new book, “Letters to Jackie: Condolences From a Grieving Nation,” released by HarperCollins, Ellen Fitzpatrick went through these [...]
OneStory Mentorship
March 8, 2010 – 4:16 pm
OneStory, a wonderful publication that mails out one carefully chosen story every three weeks has just launched an editor mentorship program. For twenty-five bucks, you can sit down with one of the editors, who will have already read your work and will give you feedback as to how to make your story one of the [...]
Jillian Weise Reading
March 5, 2010 – 2:25 pm
The author of poetry collections The Amputee’s Guide to Sex & Translating the Body reads from her debut novel, The Colony, just out from Soft Skull Press. She’ll be in the company of novelist Eric Puchner, reading from his own newly released Model Home. KGB Bar. 85 E. 4th. That’s this Sunday. 7p. Will it [...]
