Of Interest: Hitchens Update, New Books for 2011, Outsider Fiction
Catching up with Christopher Hitchens: “Darfur, Zimbabwe, Burma, North Korea, anywhere that the concept of human rights doesn’t exist, it’s always the Chinese at backstop. And always for reasons that...
View ArticleBest Reads, 2010 (Translation, Anthology, Poetry, etc.)
These are the best books Bat Terrier read this year. (Disclosure: no books by friends on this list.) Translation The Illuminations, Arthur Rimbaud, as translated by Donald Revell Anthologies Flash...
View ArticleThe Rule for Writers: Eff It
Anis Shivani‘s “new rules for writers” is one big Fuck You to careerism, conformity, and any kind of literary “success.” An excerpt: The “system”–in all its manifestations–is in utter disrepair,...
View ArticleWhy We Read Poetry: Exhibit 4: Berrigan
LXX after Arthur Rimbaud Sweeter than sour apples flesh to boys The brine of brackish water pierced my hulk Cleansing me of rot-gut wine and puke Sweeping away my anchor in its swell And since then...
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