Can Writing Be Taught?
Electric Literature and Catapult.co recently announced a new series of writing workshops and classes:Our goal is to connect emerging and unpublished writers with some of the most dynamic and...
View ArticleFriends Indeed
Well, one of things we have in common as writers is that we don’t work too much from personal experience. So, I feel like there’s a constant desire for readers to find parallels between one’s life and...
View ArticleTopics Not Discussed Elsewhere
For The Millions, Sonya Chung sits down with James Hannaham to explore “questions and topics not discussed elsewhere” about his new novel Delicious Foods. In the interview, the two discuss the research...
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On Pain
1.There is pain in the Kentucky mountains, from which an ever-diminishing cache of coal is drawn. Factory work has dried up, but it left injuries—a break here, a crush there. Some people’s bodies throb...
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Notable NYC: 7/15–7/21
Monday 7/17: Tamara Shopsin presents Arbitrary Stupid Goal and talks with Jason Fulford. Greenlight Fort Greene, 7:30 p.m., free. Victoria Redel discusses Before Everything with Paul Lisicky. McNally...
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Notable NYC: 10/13–10/19
Saturday 10/13: Myra Al-Rahim and Myung Mi Kim join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 10/14: Mary Cinadr, Phillipe McHate, Andrew Cothren, Bailey Cohen, and Suzanne Highland join the...
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Notable NYC: 2/23–3/1
Saturday 2/23: Eileen Myles and Korakrit Arunanondchai join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 2/24: Teresa Carmody, Ru Freeman, Laura McCarty, Larissa Shmailo, Katherine Vaz, and...
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Art Is Everything: Talking with Alex DiFrancesco
I first became aware of Alex DiFrancesco soon after I graduated college and joined the ranks of freelancers trying to make a sort-of living as essayists, journalists, and critics. DiFrancesco was a...
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Notable NYC: 1/11–1/17
Saturday 1/12: Jonathan Tel presents Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao with Roseann Lake. WORD – Brooklyn, 6 p.m., $5. Hannah Bae, Abigail Beshkin, and Erica Schreiner join the Bloom Readers series....
View ArticleStartling Juxtapositions: Pilot Impostor by James Hannaham
That Pilot Impostor is a poetry collection might surprise readers of James Hannaham’s previous books, the novels Delicious Foods and God Says No, but the collection has the same bracing humor and...
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