The kind folks at the PEN American Center recorded Colum McCann’s recent conversation with author and soccer ace Aleksandar Hemon. Listen to the pair discuss the Western distinction between fiction and non-fiction, and also the hypothetical merits of “watching a potato.”
McCann and Hemon in Conversation
DFW, Edited
The changes between the transcription of David Foster Wallace reading 'A fragment of a longer thing' in 2000 and the version of that story 'Backbone' as published in the recent New Yorker. (via The Paris Review)
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Get Inspired
Cristine Brache curated a great list of web-poetry videos for last month’s O, Miami Poetry Festival, and she was awesome enough to post the entire playlist online for all to see.
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The Novel vs. The Net
Sven Birkerts, still working through arguments begun in The Gutenberg Elegies, suggests in The American Scholar that "the novel and the Internet are opposites." (via)
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A Cleaner List
As promised, Amazon has removed the free ebooks from its Kindle bestseller list and now shows two lists: freebies and books you actually have to pay for.
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