Has the drudgery of submitting poems, stories, and manuscripts ever gotten you down? Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize winner A Brief History of Seven Killings, had his first novel rejected by nearly eighty publishing houses. Here’s a take on self-publishing from The Millions if all of this has got you down.
John Crow’s Devil
New Fiction by a Classic Writer
New Directions has just released The Complete Stories of Brazilian legend Clarice Lispector, newly translated by Katrina Dodson and edited by Benjamin Moser. There are eight stories in the collection that had never before appeared in English: "Covert Joy," "Remnants of Carnival," "Brasília," "Beauty and the Beast or The Big Wound, "One Day Less" (one of the two final stories left in manuscript at Lispector's death), "Gertrudes Asks for Advice," "Another Couple of Drunks," and "The Escape." Check out Magdalena Edwards's Millions review of the collection.
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More Barthes
In part because I loved Sam Anderson's riff on Barthes in this weekend's NYT Magazine so much, I was thrilled to see Maud Newton tweet this link this 2010 article on Barthes's handwriting, featuring a slideshow of note cards Barthes used to compose his Mourning Diary.
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A Conversation With Phillip Roth
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On DJ Mad Eskimo, Tumivut, Eskimocentricity, and Tagoona
Recommended Reading: Justin Nobel’s profile of the Inuit rap scene entitled (wait for it) “Ice, Ice Baby.”
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Route Nine’s Alumni Omnibus: 50 Years in the Making
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program, the school’s literary magazine – Route Nine – gathered work from over 80 alumni to create a special Alumni Omnibus issue. The collection just went online recently, and it’s tremendous.
ReBorne
"Getting too quickly to where you want to go, getting there too smoothly, is antithetical to thinking through complex issues. You want roadblocks, confusion, chaos, and doubt. Unexpected, wonderful things come out of this approach." Jeff VanderMeer provides a master class for Publisher's Weekly on novel revision, explaining in five steps how his new book Borne arrived at its final incarnation. And for more shop talk, see VanderMeer's interview with The Kills author Richard House from our own pages a couple of years back.
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Disgrace
Do you think J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace should be made into a movie starring John Malkovich? Someone does--see the trailer here.
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Are there actually 78 publishing houses?