Almost a year ago, Emily Rapp’s son Ronan passed away from Tay-Sachs disease. At The Rumpus, Rapp discusses her loss and how it affects her current pregnancy. “A boy was born in the world, already doomed by genetics, in March 2010. A girl, if all goes well, will be born in the world in March 2014, and born to do what?”
Remembering Ronan
A Room of Her Own
Recommended Listening: Sandra Cisneros on moving into her first apartment and finding a room of her own.
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Nabokov’s Unpublished Letters
Nearly 300 previously unpublished love letters written by Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Slonim from 1923 to 1975 will be published next year by Knopf.
On The Road With DFW
At the LA Times, Scott Esposito gives David Lipsky's Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace a mixed review.
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Hazlitt, will publish.
Random House Canada launched a new website yesterday, and a new internet magazine to go along with it. There's a piece from Hari Kunzru on Werner Herzog, and I'm especially taken with this one from Emily Landau on Christopher Hitchens and David Rakoff.
Why On Earth
"Why on earth would you start a literary magazine?" In an essay for The New Yorker Stephen Burt offers a wide variety of answers, from promoting a new genre to promoting one's friends. His article pairs well with our own Nick Ripatrazone's lit mag question and answer: "What is the wider cultural influence of literary magazines? I am not sure there needs to be one."
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