I don’t know how they managed to translate the thunderwords into Chinese, but if sales figures indicate success, they did a bang up job. Finnegans Wake is huge in China right now.
Finnegans Wake Hits Chinese Shelves
An Anonymous Evangelical Poetry Fan
In what might be the first sighting of its kind, an anonymous evangelical poetry fan has made an appearance in the comments of Elizabeth Lucy Conway's recent essay on teaching poetry.
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10 Rules for Writers by Janet Fitch
"Write the sentence, not just the story" is the first of ten rules for writers from Janet Fitch.
On the Brilliance of Chris Ware
The folks at the outstanding Chicago-based journal The Point offer, as a teaser for their fourth issue, a lengthy consideration of the cartoonist Chris Ware.
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Positively Freudian
Chances are that your mental image of Pavlov is that of a man giving commands to a barking dog. However, as a new biography makes clear, the doctor who brought us his very own adjective has a far more complicated legacy. In The New Yorker, Michael Specter writes about the man behind the bell.
Stieg Larsson-mania
Proof of a publishing feeding frenzy: It's big news that a bunch of manuscripts that the late Stieg Larsson wrote when he was 17 have turned up.
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“Norman was the very antithesis of minimalism”
Apart from calling up visions of a Carver-Mailer axis of literary minimalism, these remarks by Joyce Carol Oates upon winning the Mailer Prize convince us that Mailer had quite the unflappable ego.
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What Ails You
Recommended Reading: Andrew Solomon on tribal cures for depression.
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