Do you live in Miami-Dade County? Do you want to get involved in the region’s burgeoning literature and poetry scene? If so you’ll want to check out the O, Miami Information Session on Wednesday, February 27th. The meeting is meant “to inform local Miami poets of different opportunities for participating in the 2013 O, Miami Poetry Festival.”
O, Miami Poetry Festival
“Cool Characters”
"What those who care about books must appreciate is that the boundaries between canonical and noncanonical have never been ironclad in African-American literature." Clark C. Cooke writes for the LA Review of Books on black crime fiction and the rise of a "new African-American literary scene."
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Five Symptoms
Recommended Reading: Maddox Pratt on battling depression and writing a long work of hypertext literature.
From the Mixed Up Files of DFW
Newsweek takes an "infinitely fascinating quest" through David Foster Wallace's just-released archive at University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center.
New Sontag E-books
As of this month, all of Susan Sontag’s books are available for purchase as e-books. This means you can grace your e-reader with The Benefactor, Sontag's debut novel, as well as Against Interpretation, which contains the seminal essay “Notes on Camp.”
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One Child Fiction
In 2013, Mo Yan became China’s first resident Nobel Laureate in Literature, which prompted a huge swell of interest in his books in the West. In the Times, Janet Maslin reviews Frog, his latest novel to get an English translation. Sample quote: “Mo Yan, whose real name is Guan Moye, says everything he needs to about the Cultural Revolution with a scene in which Tadpole and other schoolboys eat coal and claim to find it delicious.” You could also read Alan Levinovitz on modern Chinese literature.
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