Archive for February, 2007

Shepping nachas

Everybody please congratulate my dear friend Mark Sarvas, whose first novel, Harry, Revised, has been picked up by Bloomsbury for publication in 2008.

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Presumptively classified

Seventeen poems by Guantánamo Bay detainees will be published later this year. Many other poems won’t be included, though; the Pentagon refuses to declassify them.

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Tom McCarthy surplus

Dogmatika recommends Surplus Matter, a site packed with the essays and criticism of writer Tom McCarthy.

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Lynch and Au Revoir Simone: match for a future film?

Maximus Clarke (aka the guy I’m married to) saw David Lynch Upstairs at the Square last month. This belated report appears here and at his own site, Voltage.   Upstairs at the Square host Katherine Lanpher puts authors and musicians on stage together at the Union Square Barnes & Noble. The result is an unique, unpredictable hybrid of interview, reading, . . .

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