Friday, November 18, 2005
“The popularity in the US of Rumi, a 13th-century Turkish poet, is a tragic irony, as the order of Sufi dervishes he founded is banned at home.” So quoteth the New Pages weblog, which points to the Guardian’s story “What Goes Round.” I first came to Rumi, the Coleman Barks translated Rumi, via a [...]
Thursday, November 17, 2005
WaPo has a better story on the Book Awards, which of course tells of Didion’s (nonfiction) prize for The Year of Magical Thinking. Also important is this first:
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and founder of San Francisco’s celebrated City Lights Bookstore, accepted the National Book Foundation’s first Literarian award, for outstanding service to the [...]
Thursday, November 17, 2005
After seeing the headlines that Vollman won the National Book Awards fiction prize in the NYT, and reading that story, I wanted to include a more permanent bookmark here, as the NYT’s story will eventually go behind its paid subscriber curtain, and as far as stories go, it’s not that great, as in not that [...]
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Robert Birnbaum talks to Ron Rash, who looks none the worse for wear and comes off sounding as nice as I remember. Good to hear about the Western Carolina University distinguished professor of Appalachian studies. Though it was maybe not so surprising as pleasantly interesting to hear that he loved the 17 years teaching at [...]
I read this first thing this morning:
…taking responsibility for what is in your control, not the wars and famine, not for overpopulation and a shrinking ozone layer, not for your father’s temper and your day job’s lousy vacation policy, but for how you will make meaning and for when and where you will create. [...]
The City Paper’s coverage of the candlelight vigil.
Thursday, November 3, 2005
My excuse in advance for the little upkeep I imagine there to be here. This year I am doing it (along with my s.o. who is also writerly), Nanowrimo — writing a novel in a month (November). Desperate measures for desperate times. Three days into National Novel Writing Month, I’m feeling as I [...]