Posts Tagged ‘Bookslut’
The New York Review Of Books reviews the newest collection of Susan Sontag’s work.
Matthew Kirschenbaum’s new book is now available for preorders at Amazon.
I visit their site often, but until Bookslut mentioned it I didn’t realize Bookforum had a blog on their site.
There are four publications I enjoy with new issues out recently: The Quarterly Conversation and Bookforum have put out their summer issues. There are also June issues available from Bookslut and Words Without Borders.
A few days ago I sat down and read through the May issue of Bookslut. As usual, there is a mixture of things I am interested in and not all that interested in. What I enjoyed: a review of Paul Auster’s Travel In The Scriptorium, a review of a book I need to pick up soon about Sassy Magazine, and reviews of a group of young adult books, including the excellent Justine Larbalestier.
Weekend reading for the long holiday weekend:
I read this paper a few years ago, but Susan Herring’s Searching For Safety Online: Managing Trolling In A Feminist Forum is worth a second, or first, look.
Via the Dartmouth Writing Program’s website, here is a guide to revising academic papers.
Via Matthew G Kirschenbaum’s excellent blog I found out about a new blog at the University of Maryland called On Purpose.
Issue fifty four of Bookslut is online. I am very interested in reading the interview with Marjane Satrapi.
If you haven’t looked at it in awhile it is a good time to check out Obey Giant again.
I’m not really a fan, although I did have a girlfriend once who loved them, but Book Slut recently interviewed Mr. T Experience vocalist Frank Portman about his new book King Dork.
Via Book Slut, The New Yorker has a review up of Michel Houellebecq’s new book The Possibility Of An Island written by John Updike. Updike and Houellebecq? Cool! The review also touches on Houellebecq’s previous books too. It’s nice to see someone give Whatever some props, that book seems to always get shorted when praise is handed out in difference to Platform and The Elementary Particles.
The loss of science fiction writer Octavia Butler is, as Scott over at Conversational Reading puts it, a major loss. Butler has been one of my favorite writers for about four years now. I was first turned onto her via a professor who had us read Kindred for a class. Later that semester I wrote a paper on The Parable Of The Sower and have continued to enjoy her writing since.
Book Slut also has obituaries from many different places linked.
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