Sirenland 2008
The Sirenland Writers Conference is accepting applications through 10/31. (You’ll want to check the pricetag.)
The Sirenland Writers Conference is accepting applications through 10/31. (You’ll want to check the pricetag.)
After reading my interview with Kate Christensen, an interested but broke reader asked for “a little giveaway love.” So I looked into it, and Christensen’s publisher has agreed to send a copy of each of her novels — In the Drink, Jeremy Thrane, The Epicure’s Lament, and The Great Man — to one of you. This time I’m taking a . . .
At Words Without Borders, Mark Sarvas and David Leavitt consider Márai’s The Rebels, his body of work, and intimacy between men.
Robbe-Grillet’s Un roman sentimental, a novel rife with “young teen porn,” has met mostly with silence. (Nabokov comes to mind.)
Of course church leaders excel at dreaming up grim holiday festivities for children, but religious adaptations of popular songs are where they really shine. (Thanks to CAAF and The Mumpsimus for the flashbacks.)