come again?
Thursday, June 12th, 2003
Laila Lalami
Archive for June, 2003
next, please
Wednesday, June 11th, 2003
Hillary Clinton’s memoir…
Oh, who cares? I’m bored with all the hype.
treisman on debut fiction
Wednesday, June 11th, 2003
A while back, when Deborah Treisman took over from Bill Buford at The New Yorker, she drew the ire of online writing communities at Readerville and Zoetrope for saying things like “Someone who’s submitting themselves directly to the fiction editor probably isn’t all that savvy about publishing and probably not about writing either.” Now her first debut fiction issue for the New Yorker is on stands. And she is interviewed by the New York Observer here.
Link via Maud.
new yorker debut fiction issue
Monday, June 9th, 2003
Hop on over to Maud’s site. She has links to the New Yorker’s debut fiction issue. The newly anointed are Daniel Alarcon, Heather Clay, and Lara Vapnyar.
summer games
Monday, June 9th, 2003
Escape June gloom by playing BookBrowse.com’s wordplay quiz (they even have prizes…)
the administration’s poet + mathematician
Monday, June 9th, 2003
I wonder if Rummy thinks he’s really Rumi.
The man who gave us, “The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” has another pearl for us. When asked about those ever-eluding WMDs, Rumsfeld responded, “We haven’t found Saddam Hussein and I don’t know anyone running around saying he didn’t exist.” See what he does with logic? Just think what the man could do for physics or medicine.
would that it were only a game…
Monday, June 9th, 2003
The Administration decision to issue its Iraq’s most wanted deck of cards last March was characteristically puerile. Warniks even used the idea against the few dissenters who opposed the invasion. They issued their own deck of cards, called the Deck of Weasels.
Well, peaceniks are fighting back. Here’s a set of cards you should definitely check out: The War Profiteers Deck of Cards.
Link to the war profiteers’ deck from Desultory Turgescence.
kureishi on la liberte
Sunday, June 8th, 2003
“As the only animals with the power of speech, we should revel in our ability to challenge the forces that try to silence us, whatever the consequences. ” Read Loose Tongues and Liberty by Hanif Kureishi.
Side note: Kureishi’s short story “My Son the Fanatic” was recently reprinted in this issue of Zoetrope All-Story, and he wrote another essay, “Sex and Secularity,” to go with it.
lit prize
Friday, June 6th, 2003
I just found out that my story “El Dorado” has won a British Council Prize in Morocco. I’m pretty psyched.
