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April 14, 2010

Sylvia Beach writes to William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore

With April being National Poetry Month and with the recent publication of The Letters of Sylvia Beach, we thought we would post some of Beach’s letters to some of the most important modernist poets. (To read more of Beach’s letters...

April 1, 2010

Jonathan Gottschall on science, evolution, and the next big thing in English

An article in today’s New York Times looks at the ways in which literary scholars are drawing on science to understand individual texts as well as to understand such questions as “Why do we read fiction? Why do we care...

March 30, 2010

Sylvia Beach Interview

Greta Schiller’s 1995 documentary Paris was a Woman , explores the vital role that women played in the artistic and intellectual life in inter-war Paris. The film includes archival footage and interviews with many of the leading figures, including none...

March 25, 2010

Interview with Donna V. Jones author of The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy

The following is an interview with Donna V. Jones, the author of The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity Q: The title of the book is The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity. What...

March 17, 2010

Sylvia Beach, editor and letter-writer

Think about a book you’ve read over and over. You may have turned to it for advice, or chuckled at an inadvertent reference. You know that book backwards and forwards. Now stop and try to think of who the editor...

March 1, 2010

How Untouchables are changing the face of Indian literature

“What we’re doing is creating a new history of India that’s not in the textbooks.”—Omprakash Valmiki, author of Joothan: An Untouchable’s Life. The above quote comes from a recent interview with Valmiki published in an article from the Wall Street...

February 17, 2010

Best Translated Book Award 2010

Last night the shortlist for The Best Translated Book Award was announced at Idlewild Books. Unfortunately (for us), There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night, by Cao Naiqian, which was on the longlist did...

February 1, 2010

Interview with the editors of Gyorgy Lukacs's Soul and Form

The following is an interview with Jack Sanders and Katie Terezakis, coeditors of the new edition of György Lukács’s, Soul and Form. Q: Why publish a new edition of Lukács’s early essays now? Jack Sanders and Katie Terezakis: Lukács first...

January 19, 2010

Terry Castle on Susan Sontag and "Notes on Camp"

On Sunday, Terry Castle, editor of The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall, was featured in always-entertaining Q & A included in the Sunday New York Times Magazine. In addition to being the author of several...

January 15, 2010

"Susan Sontag, my prose's prime mover, ate the world." — Wayne Koestenbaum

The quote from Wayne Koestenbaum comes from his essay in the recently published volume The Scandal of Susan Sontag. Tomorrow, January 16th would have been Sontag’s 77th birthday, so we thought it appropriate to highlight the book and Sontag herself....

January 13, 2010

Cixous to go!

With the recent publication of The Portable Cixous, we are re-posting an interview with Cixous in which she discusses how the concept of intellectual has been masculinized, the idea of universalism, and more (see below). For those interested in a...

January 6, 2010

There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night named to the fiction longlist for the 2010 Best Translated Book

Apologies for the long title to the blog post but the title to Cao Naiqian’s novel requires such length. The reason for the headline is thatThere’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night was named...

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Category: Literary Studies