M. Evelina Galang, author of Her Wild American Self and current director of the University of Miami’s MFA Creative Writing Program, is featured in the latest issue of Kartika Review, “a national Asian/Pacific Islander American literary arts journal.” You can read the entire Fall 2011 issue for free.
Kartika Review
But where’s the magic?
So JK Rowling's first book for adults is scheduled for release in September. The Casual Vacancy will be a "blackly comic" novel about an idyllic English parish's... civic politics?
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Something To Think About This Sunday
Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo author Mark Bowden explains the "hardest job in football" in this Atlantic article from 2009.
Going Bananas Over a Piece of Cake
Ever wonder where the phrase "worth his salt" came from? How about "spill the beans"? At The Smithsonian Magazine, Lisa Bramen traces the origins of food-related idioms. (via.)
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Veering Bogward
At The Rumpus, Shawn Andrew Mitchell reviews Dark Lies the Island, the new short story collection by the Irish writer Kevin Barry. Mitchell quotes a number of the book’s more interesting idioms and perceives “an impolitic decadence to how Barry couples his words.” (Related: we interviewed Barry a few weeks ago.)
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Vicious Circle
Michele Filgate was so terrified by Dave Eggers's The Circle that she quit social media for a week and wrote about the experience for Salon. "I don’t want to become like Mae, sacrificing real-life friendships for the allure of the screen. I want to be aware of the world around me. I want to write about that world. I want to feel more alive, even if that means being lonelier in the process." Pair with: our review of the novel.
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A Visual Mind
To get a full sense of the legacy of William Blake, you need to see his paintings alongside his famous poems. The Wordsworth contemporary did much of his best work -- including the covers of his own collections -- with a brush. At the New York Review of Books blog, Jenny Uglow pays a visit to a new exhibition at Oxford.
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