Bites: Henry Miller in LA, Bolaño was a Reader, Frost Sent Christmas Cards, Art Basel is on, Idiots, and More

When I think of Henry Miller, Paris, Brooklyn, and Big Sur come to mind, not Los Angeles.  The Rumpus changes that. You are probably going to like this Justin Taylor guy. Roberto Bolaño read an awful lot. Serbian experimental writer Milorad Pavić has passed away. Jonathan Lethem calls Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood “a supreme literary stunt” at The Millions. At HTML Giant, Jimmy Chen says of Nabokov’s The Original of Laura, “doesn’t do much except make a publishing event […]

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Bites: Bukowski, the death of print, Julia Wertz, WFMU

The Rumpus has published a previously unpublished forward by Charles Bukowski. Speaking of poetry, if you’ve published some, you can apply to live in Robert Frost’s farmhouse for two months next summer, and hope for osmosis. Is everyone reading Little Dorrit right now? Ann Kirschner of The Chronicle Review uses multiple text formats (four of them, actually). WP Book World’s Short Stack notes the connection between Dickens scoundrel Mr. Merdle to our 21st-century’s Mr. Madoff. Is print news really dying, […]

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