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  The Best Literary and Arts Events in NYC This Week | 04.11.11

  4213 readers04.11 Matthew Zapruder & Eileen Myles read at the KGB Bar. 04.12 The Little Magazine Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: 6×6 founder & editor Matvei Yankelevich and Supermachine founder & editor Ben Fama in discussion with readings and discussions with authors Macgregor Card, Corina Copp, and Dorothea Lasky at the DeWitt Wallace Periodicals Room, The New York

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  Emily Gould To Launch Digital Bookstore

  4418 readersWriter Emily Gould will partner with Ruth Curry to establish a digital bookstore. According to The New York Observer, they have contacted OR Books about the “super-specialized and targeted” venture. Here’s more from the article: “[T]he curated site will feature a small number of hand-selected books, including the poet Eileen Myles’s Inferno, published in November 2010…EmilyBooks.com

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  Here Today, Gone…Tomorrow, Maybe? The Uncertain Future of the One Hit Wonder in the Digital Age

  2443 readersby Dana Rossi I used to think Nirvana was the reason Alannah Myles was a one hit wonder. I never liked Alannah Myles. We’ve never met, and she’s Canadian, so I’m sure she’s lovely. It’s that song of hers that grated on me—still does, whenever some drunk girl gets up to croon it at karaoke. Regardless of

• Bad Writing: The Movie | 08.10.10

  1525 readersFilmmaker Vernon Lott never realized his dream of becoming a famous poet and writer. In fact, going back to the writing that he had done as a young man, which he, at the time, thought was brilliant, he discovered some really bad writing. He wound up creating a documentary that appears to be about writing,

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  Lambda Literary Award Winners Revealed

  3206 readersThe Lambda Literary Foundation has announced the winners of the 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. More than four hundred people attended the ceremony at the School of Visual Arts Theater in New York City. Some of the celebrity guests included former...

• James Franco Plays Allen Ginsberg in Extended Trailer for Howl

  1514 readers This fall, James Franco will play the great poet Allen Ginsberg in the biopic, Howl. The new trailer embedded above gives you a taste of the upcoming literary event. In 2008, we caught up with Howl's co-director Jeffrey Friedman, finding out what a 50-year-old poem can teach us today. Here's an excerpt: "We've been surprised

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  Thomas Pynchon Has 10/1 Odds of Winning Nobel Prize

  6785 readersAs the 2011 Nobel Prize announcement nears, the U.K. betting site Ladbrokes has posted odds for the prize–putting Thomas Pynchon at 10/1 odds to win the prize for literature. According to Ladbrokes, the Syrian poet Adonis has the best odds (4/1) to win the award. Swedish author Tomas Transtromer has 9/2 odds and Japanese novelist Haruki

• American Life in Poetry: Column 362 | 02.29.12

  6571 readersBY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Sara Ries is a poet from Buffalo, N.Y., whose parents run a diner. Here’s one of her delightful poems about family life for a short order cook. Fish Fry Daughter Holiday Inn kitchen, the day I am born: My father is frying fish for a party of seventeen when the call comes from

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  InDefinite Podcast Episode #20: Michael Kimball

  4292 readersListen: Episode #20: Michael Kimball This episode of InDefinite Podcast features novelist Michael Kimball reading from his most recent novel Us [Tyrant Books]. I don’t usually add a whole lot on to these posts in an attempt to get out of the way and let the author do their thing. However, after the break I’m including

• ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ Official Trailer

  3664 readersA leaked version of the trailer for David Fincher‘s adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo materialized on YouTube this week. It has since been taken down (Mike Cane analyzed it shot by shot), but we’ve embedded the official trailer...