What can we learn about Leo Tolstoy by reading the German sociologist Max Weber? Let Jeremy Klemin from 3:AM Magazine explain. While we’re on Tolstoy, here’s a complementary piece that asks the age old question–who’s better: Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky?
War and Sociology
“Never will I tire of that silvery fluidity”
“I hope this prize will incite thousands of British women to take close-up photos of their lovers’ bodies in all states of array and disarray.” Literary Review calls out the year’s most abominable sex scene.
Listen Carefully
Recommended Listening: Poet Rachel Zucker speaks with Erika Meitner about straight-forward poetics and poetry as a tool for social justice.
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Fall 2009 Story Contest
Narrative Magazine announces its Fall 2009 Story Contest, open to fiction and non-fiction writers. Submission deadline November 30th.
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Flummoxing Florals
With the cold front in America right now, you would never know it's meant to be spring. To get yourself in the season, take The Guardian's floral poetry quiz. Sample question: "What reminds Ezra Pound of 'petals on a wet, black bough'?"
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Dear Sandy, Hello
A look at Ted Berrigan's letters to his institutionalized wife, collected in Dear Sandy, Hello, at The Poetry Foundation.
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