You can get acquainted with Charles Wright, the nation’s newest Poet Laureate, by checking out interviews he did with StorySouth and The Paris Review, and also by reading his work – much of which can be found online. Might I suggest this poem, which was published by the VQR?
Charles Wright is Our New Poet Laureate
Because Language
Because internet we have a new preposition. Yes, that's right the word "because" is no longer a mere subordinating conjunction but also a preposition. We challenge someone to write an entire short story with this preposition or at least a poem because literature.
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Carl Köhler in Toronto
The University of Toronto now has a webpage up for its current exhibition "Beyond the Words: Author Portraits by Carl Köhler." See some of Köhler's remarkable portraits of artists and intellectuals and read about him here.
Your Tacit Approval
“I hate to break it to you, folks, but RTs are implied endorsements. Forwarding an article by e-mail without explaining why you are passing it on implies that you agree with it (and that you are someone who likes to waste my time). RTing something without comment means the same thing.” Uh oh.
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Girls To The Front
In riot grrl news, here's an interview with Corin Tucker, formerly of Sleater-Kinney, over at The Rumpus.
Tuesday New Release Day: DFW, Auster, LaCava, Lewis
Both Flesh and Not, a posthumous collection of David Foster Wallace essays, is now out in paperback. Also out: Report from the Interior by Paul Auster; a new paperback edition of Stephanie LaCava's An Extraordinary Theory of Objects; and a new collection of essays by C.S. Lewis. For more on these and other great titles, check out our Great Second-Half 2013 Book Preview.
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The American Salander: Rooney Mara
At W, a first look at American actress Rooney Mara in character as Lisbeth Salander. The relatively unknown Mara, recently of David Fincher's The Social Network, has been cast as Salander to Daniel Craig's Mikael Blomkvist in Fincher's American film version of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The obvious question: does Mara have the chops to outshine Noomi Rapace's Salander?