Get a load of William T. Vollmann’s new title: Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater With Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines. In other words, welcome to the work of William T. Vollmann. I [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
John D’agata, About a Mountain
May 21, 2010 – 5:43 am
Shawn Vandor’s first book, Fire at the End of the Rainbow, is recently out from Sand Paper Press Photograph by Skye Parrott
O Fallen Angel
May 16, 2010 – 9:17 pm
O Fallen Angel (Chiasmus) is the first novel by Kate Zambreno, and, if she continues in this vein throughout her career, she’s going to start a lot of fights. The novel describes a older suburban woman named Mommy, her suicidal daughter Maggie, and a homeless and insane man named Malachi. The characters don’t have conversations, [...]
Alice Walker’s Garden
May 14, 2010 – 3:25 pm
I know Alice Walker won the Pulitzer for her fiction, but I’m all about her essays and her poems. I’m particularly obsessed with her womanist essays from the 1970′s. She is rad for so many reasons that I can’t begin to mention here, if you’re curious about the amazing life she has led go to [...]
Glass & Parwaz Playhouse
May 10, 2010 – 11:45 am
Cast and Crew of Parwaz Playhouse’s debut production, Glass. New Yorkers often forget that the theater is a treasure. For when you live amongst the fixed twinkle of Broadway, the art of mimicking life can become as repetitive as a bodega or a yellow taxi. But the theater is not something that we should take [...]
Anne Sanow
May 6, 2010 – 12:45 pm
Anne Sanow’s first book of stories, Triple Time, winner of the 2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, has recently been awarded this year’s L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for Fiction. The magnificent collection deserves all the acclaim it’s been getting. Story after story, you’ll likely be astounded by the graceful precision of the author’s descriptions, the [...]
