Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
B orn today: Johanna Spyri, children's author, Hirzel, Switzerland, 1829; Djuna Barnes, poet, illustrator, author, Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., 1892; ; Saul Steinberg (ps. Saul Jacobson), artist, cartoonist, New York City, 1914 James Houston, illustrator, designer, children's author, filmmaker, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1921; Anne Frank, diarist, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, 1929; Trevanian (ps. Rodney...
Newmark's Door (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
"They mean that you can be a brilliant young scholar, from a top program, but if you're an expert in Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald, or Malamud, Bellow and Roth, or Gaddis, Pynchon and DeLillo, or all of them plus Dreiser,...
Poetry Hut Blog (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Poetry News: --- Unfortunately, poetry in general has a bad reputation --- --- new lit mag alert --- --- The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist --- --- She did say, though, that her interest in cryptography, the study of coded writing, influenced her poems, along with her love of puzzles --- --- Never has so [...]
The Beat (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
I am putting together a one-off issue of Sein und Werden to be sold at MAPS - the music/lit/art/poetry festival taking place in my home town at the end of May. I would therefore like to put out a general call for submissions.Anyone and everyone can submit. Here are a few things to consider: - fiction, poetry, [...]
Bouphonia (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
In The Nation , of all places, William Deresiewicz scans the MLA job listings for a clue to what ails the teaching of literature. This is an acceptable form of intellectual inquiry these days, particularly among the kulturkampfers , though I have to say it doesn't seem much more rigorous than the areas of study it's usually intended to attack. His first complaint is that there's an overemphasis on...
Dykes And The City (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
According to Sapphicchic we should start referring to ourselves as Gayelles… Gayelles And The City? No, that doesn't work for me. (Via Queer Fem(me)inist) My Gayelle DJ Idol Djuna Barnes has a new Urbanizer mix out (well, it's not really new anymore, I’m just a bit behind). Tracklist here and download here. Lesbian Fashion: Spandex is a Privilege, Not [...]
Of Books and Bicycles (Free subscription) | 01/02/2008
As several of you know, because I’ve left comments on your blogs saying as much, I’m feeling anti-planning and anti-resolutions right now. Which does not mean I’ll be making no plans — at the same time as I’m feeling anti-planning, I’m also rather envious of everyone else’s plans — rather, it means I’m going [...]
Eve's Alexandria (Free subscription) | 12/23/2007
It's only the 23rd December and already the endless Christmas round of family visits, carol concerts and dinner parties with friends has begun. I arrived home at my parent's house yesterday at midday, and will be staying until the end...
Dykes And The City (Free subscription) | 12/23/2007
Of course Lady Jane will always have a special place (of adoration) in my dyke heart, but as of today I have a new DJ idol. Meet Djuna Barnes, she’s from Denmark but you can't tell from the pictures, she likes Weeds, Dexter & The L Word, and she plays for our team. Download her [...]
A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 12/21/2007
Okay, I can't help myself. Everyone else is doing this, so I will too (I borrowed it from Pages Turned). I'm afraid of how few I have probably read (even though I read more female authors than male authors). I've...
Discobelle.net (Free subscription) | 12/16/2007
We got this mix the other day from one of our friends over in Copenhagen, Djuna Barnes. She’s been killing it over there for quite some time now and we’re glad to finally present one of her mixes. This is called “Urbanizer” and is filled with moody urban music, quite suiting on a cold sunday. Djuna [...]
alain finkielkrautrock (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
Djuna Barnes (Copenhagen) / hippie not hippie mix Eden Abhez – Intro : The Wanderer & Eden's Island Caribou – Melody Day (Four Tet remix) Taken By Trees /The Tough Alliance - Taken Too Young Brian Eno - A Long Way Down Findlay Brown - Losing the Wizard To Survive (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve remix) Rhonda Harris - Kathleen Tarwater - When Love Was the Law in Los Angeles Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbits...
Of Books and Bicycles (Free subscription) | 11/27/2007
I finished re-reading Djuna Barnes's novel Nightwood a week or so ago, and the experience was … not particularly remarkable. I’ve been hesitant to write about it because I wasn't sure I had much to say, and I thought the experience should have been more significant than it was. It feels a bit [...]
Of Books and Bicycles (Free subscription) | 11/01/2007
Happy Halloween everyone! I’m sitting in my living room armchair, a place I rarely sit, so I can hop up and answer the door in case kids are out trick-or-treating. This is the extent of my Halloween celebrations, I’m afraid. So, I finished Djuna Barnes's Nightwood last week and have decided to go ahead [...]
Of Books and Bicycles (Free subscription) | 10/23/2007
T.S. Eliot wrote a Preface to my edition of Djuna Barnes's novel Nightwood, and I thought he had some interesting things to say about fiction: … most contemporary novels are not really ‘written'. They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily [...]
