Emerging writers, check it out: the Asian American Writers’ Workshop is accepting applications for TWO emerging writers’ fellowships (fiction and nonfiction), $5000 plus mentoring and work space. May 16 deadline, more info here.
Emerging Writers Fellowships — Asian American Writers’ Workshop
The Old Man and the Fee
The descendants of Ernest Hemingway's famous cats have now become the attempted subject of federal regulation.
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Thoughts of a Hand-Wringer
If you were to guess (no cheating) the author of a new essay on hypochondria, who would you guess? Larry David? Calvin Trillin? Or someone a little more... nebbishy?
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Strolling Story
Recommended Reading: Lydia Davis's new short story, "Old Men Around Town," in the New Statesman. "He stops to tell us that he must be up early in the morning – to get down to the factory. The factory is gone, his men are gone, but he still seems to be in charge of something." For more Davis, check out her new collection.
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Miéville in Conversation
China Miéville recorded a podcast with Lapham’s Quarterly editor Aidan Flax-Clark.
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Get Your Tissues
The first trailer for the film adaptation of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief is out. Expect a lot of Oscar nominations and tears.
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A Rush of Blood to the Head?
An intriguing pairing: Norman Rush tackles James Ellroy's Blood's A Rover in the current New York Review of Books.
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