The August issue of Open Letters is available. Nestled amidst the literary fare are early Oscar nominations from Sarah Hudson and a piece on the video game The Sims by Phillip A. Lobo.
August Open Letters
Belladonna* Reading Tonight in NYC
Tonight in New York, poets Juliana Spahr and TC Tolbert read and discuss “how can we, as poets, take care of ourselves, our creative work, and the larger planetary body on which we depend?" 7.p.m. at Dixon Place.
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Draw a Novel
Recommended reading (and doodling): an excerpt from an upcoming translation of Martin Solares's How to Draw a Novel, complete with diagrams and squiggling lines. Pair with our own Hannah Gersen's look at authors's methods for drawing and mapping their own novels-in-progress.
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Dating Woody
Diane Keaton writes in her upcoming memoir, Then Again, that "Going out with Woody Allen was like being in a Woody Allen movie."
Deep, Hungry Gulps
“My idea of the ideal literary dinner party remains locking a book under my left wrist while conveying risotto to my mouth with my right at the kitchen table.” Stacy Schiff talks literary dinner parties and more in this week’s New York Times By the Book column. Schiff’s latest, The Witches: Salem, 1692, is out this week.
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Smile More
Recommended (Frustrating) Reading: "Men Explain Submissions To Me," an eye-opening new piece from Sarah Blake at The Rumpus.