Recommended Reading: Over at BOMB Magazine, Jesse Ball and Catherine Lacey discuss strategies for a non-interview, why they write, and poetry’s “direct utility toward experience.”
The Experience of Being Human
The Other Saul
Earlier this month, I wrote about Louis Menand’s recent New Yorker piece about The Life of Saul Bellow, a new biography of the Nobel laureate by Zachary Leader. Now, in the LRB, Andrew O’Hagan reads the book. Sample quote: “Bellow’s community was his subject and his subject was his voice.”
“Life around the pool”
Recommended Reading: Colm Tóibín on a new biography of the artist David Hockney.
Murakami’s latest out in Japan
The third volume of Haruki Murakami's mega-hit 1Q84 went on sale Friday morning in Japan.
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The Mojo Spot
Dispatch from Korea
"For American readers, literary evocations of Korea have come, for the most part, in the form of dystopian novels written by people without any direct connection to the country." Ed Park on reading Dalkey Archive Press’s series Library of Korean Literature, launched in collaboration with the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.
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Hallberg Podcast
Our own Garth Risk Hallberg did a podcast with Three Percent, a "resource for international literature" at the University of Rochester.