Recently rediscovered: a comic libretto by Raymond Chandler titled “The Princess and the Pedlar.”
The Princess and the Pedlar
at the utmost limits of writing itself
Christian Bök wonders about the future of conceptual poetry:"How do we write poems in a world where a spambot, like @horse_ebooks, gets to write all the great lines…?"
7 reasons not to write a novel
Javier Marías cogently summarizes all the reasons to stop writing novels immediately, and adds only one reason to write them anyway: "Fiction is the most bearable of worlds." We reviewed The Infatuations, one of his own twelve works (to date), last year.
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Elizabeth Bishop’s letters, edited
Elizabeth Bishop famously exchanged letters with Robert Lowell so remarkable they were later collected and published (Words in Air). This Recording has prepared a selection of her letters to Lowell and others, including one edit focused on the year after a lover's suicide. Pair with a meditation on the relevance of Bishop's poetry at crucial life moments.
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The Man Who Clothed the World
"No one took this further, with more imagination and daring...At a time when American groups would often dress down—affluent suburban kids disguised as Appalachian farmers or Canadian lumberjacks - Bowie quite deliberately dressed up." David Bowie's sartorial legacy.