That Reminds Me: Sneak Peek

That Reminds Me: Sneak Peek

"If he was a good boy, why are we wearing these?"

Kris Moran’s image of a masked woman, on the cover of APS 10, had many of our readers asking: Who is that girl? And then: That reminds me of…We decided to bring a group of APS contributors together and ask them right back. Part party, part prompt: Here is your chance to remember something, too. Join Glenn Kurtz and others on this Thursday, June 10th at The Kitchen.

Posted on June 9, 2010 | Comment | Permalink

Yoni Wolf Listens to Poetry<br>A Q&A with Scott Rosenberg

Yoni Wolf Listens to Poetry
A Q&A with Scott Rosenberg

It’s probably safe to say that you’re the only songwriter I’ve ever come across who’s thrown in a quote from Marilyn Hacker. I’m curious what your relationship is to contemporary poetry or writing in general.

Well, I listen to poetry when I can. I don’t really read it, because I don’t really believe in it as a written thing, to be honest; at least for myself. I don’t know how to read it. I prefer to think of poetry as an oral thing.

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Posted on April 29, 2010 | Comment | Permalink

I wonder what Henry James would say to Toni Morrison by Austin Ratner

I wonder what Henry James would say to Toni Morrison
by Austin Ratner

Having spent seven years researching, writing, and, at last, triumphantly publishing a historical novel, I was dismayed to learn from Denis Donoghue’s essay in APS 8 that Henry James considered historical novels “fatally cheap.” Cheapness is clearly bad, and fatality worse; beyond that I’m not exactly sure what Henry James meant since I haven’t yet developed the stamina to read all the way to the end of one of Henry James’s sentences.

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Posted on April 22, 2010 | Comment | Permalink

On Irrelevance: Part IV by Tom Drury

On Irrelevance: Part IV
by Tom Drury

Right now I'm reading Quincas Borba by Machado de Assis (1839-1908) and so I'll recommend another of his novels, and one of my favorites, Epitaph of a Small Winner. Originally published in 1880, it seems to me a conversation with an eternal present. (And actually, I don't know what could be more relevant than that.) Here is an excerpt:

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Posted on April 5, 2010 | Comment | Permalink

On Irrelevance: Part III by Amy Leach

On Irrelevance: Part III
by Amy Leach

Relevant writers have their place, to be sure. But relevance seems to hold a despotic ascendancy these days—everybody wants to be relevant; everybody wants everybody else to be relevant. Relevance is not the only virtue! Irrelevance is also a virtue! The sun is not only a vector of cancer and vitamin D; the sun also makes my Pomeranian twirl. Here is a list of a few of my favorite irrelevant writers:

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Posted on April 1, 2010 | Comment | Permalink