Bread Loaf Diaries
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
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Department of WTF
Tuesday, July 5th, 2005
Norman Mailer’s racist, misogynistic rant against NY Times critic Michiko Kakutani has been getting quite a bit of press, but it’s distressing to note how much of it is being related without even a dash of condemnation. Nor have those who’ve claimed Mailer’s ire to be “understandable” bothered to look at Kakutani’s record. (Michael Cader, [...]
Guest Column: Dan Olivas
Thursday, June 9th, 2005
Latino Books Month: Una Bendicion Mezclada By Daniel A. Olivas To great fanfare, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) designated May as the second annual Latino Books Month. The AAP, which describes itself as a national trade association of the U.S. book publishing industry, dubbed it a celebration where “booksellers, librarians, and others in the [...]
Spring Issue of The Paris Review
Monday, May 2nd, 2005
The spring issue of the Paris Review is now online, with fiction from A.S. Byatt, Hiromi Kawakami, and Rick Moody among others, and a most interesting article by Aleksandar Hemon, which starts thus: On the morning of March 2, 1908, a young Jewish immigrant named Lazarus Averbuch knocked at the door of the Shippy residence [...]
