Rozalia Jovanovic checks out the work of the young Keith Haring for Gallerist. Thought Catalog catalogs some writing advice from Martin Amis. Note to Jonathan Franzen: You fuck with Edith Wharton, you get an Edith Wharton scholar on your ass. The Coffin Factory went to the Muumuu House reading. Mira Ptacin shares an excerpt from her memoir “about the uterus and the American Dream.” at Guernica. A Whit Stillman primer. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
Bites: New Yorker Covers, Gay Hamlet, Ole Miss Wants Faulkner, Spring Indies, and More
At EmDashes, the four covers created for the 85th anniversary issue of The New Yorker. Was Hamlet gay? Superman goes for a million. The Rumpus lets us know about new fiction on Muumuu House by Megan Boyle Faulkner as a mascot? Three Guys One Book talk about spring indies. At The Faster Times, Michael Kimball Interviews Christopher Higgs
Tao Lin’s Muumuu House: Romantic Realism in Two Books of Poetry
Literary realism, like most literary classifications, is vague and ambiguous and difficult to define. In some capacity, it can be characterized as a reaction against, or an answer to, literary romanticism. The current state of affairs is such that panic ensues with every newspaper that closes its doors and Armageddon is exclaimed when new ideas like Twitter proliferate. Killings are over- or under-aggrandized, depending. Wars are either heroic or dastardly; even having no stance is a taking a stance. The […]