In this roundup, writers I love: Pauline Kael, Susan Gillis, Emily Dickinson
Red Lemonade is not just a press; it’s also an online community. All of its books are published online, as well as in print, so users can comment, annotate, and insert marginalia on the texts.
The possibly true last moments of Cosmonaut Vladimir Kamarov
Whilst scanning the endlessly entertaining List of Unusual Deaths a few years ago, I became interested in the life of Vladimir Kamarov, a Cosmonaut whose Soyuz mission ended in disaster when it struck the earth at full-speed in a state of total malfunction.
The roundup returns: with Elif Batuman on literary fame, reading Sontag and Barthes in the digital age, and Jane Eyre. And more!
Alex Shephard on the NBCC blog
Fearless Full Stop leader Alex Shephard–our Editor-in-Chief–is interviewed on Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle.
William Vollmann in Japan’s Restricted Zone
William T. Vollmann, author of Imperial, The Atlas, and several other incredibly intense works of fiction and journalism, ventured into Japan’s “contaminated” zone while covering the fallout of March’s tsunami and resulting nuclear catastrophe.
Bookish (and Birdlike) Events in NYC This Week
Here you are, looking at the internet. And you wonder, “is there more to life?” The answer is no, not really. There are, however, different things that you can do. Here are a few examples:
The Winners of the Best Translated Book Award!
Poetry: The Book of Things by Aleš Šteger, translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry (BOA Editions) Fiction: The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal (New York Review Books) Thank god for translators, because I don’t speak either of those languages, and I look forward to reading both these books. Read […]
Best Translated Book Award Winners Announced Tomorrow
A little while ago, I was hanging out, wasting time enjoyably, and I came across the longlist for the Best Translated Book Award (Fiction and Poetry) at the website Three Percent, a really interesting (and really aesthetically pleasing–good job, guys) site all about international literature based at the University of Rochester. The list had been […]
Chelsey Johnson interviews Eileen Myles
Full Stop fave Chelsey Johnson interviews poet, sometimes-novelist and legendary badass Eileen Myles over at the Rumpus.