Publicity
Money Shot by Rae Armantrout is the Pick of the Week in the new Publishers Weekly
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“Armantrout is only getting better: these new poems are among her best, and among the most relevant poems now being written.” -Publishers Weekly, December 20th
Read more here.
Film director Blake Edwards has died at age 88
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Film director Blake Edwards has died at age 88. Read about it in the Los Angeles Times. You can learn more about Edwards and his film in our book Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards.
Don’t miss Tan Lin at the Asian American Literary Festival
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Sunday, November 7th, 2PM
Powerhouse Arena (Ground Floor), DUMBO
37 Main St.
Brooklyn, NY
“Internet Auteur”
So you may use the Internet just to procrastinate, flirt and google-stalk, but the web remains a frontier where the mores on authorship, ownership and privacy are still being written and can change at any moment. Three innovative writers discuss the way the Internet is rewriting what it means to be both an author and a person. We start with a reading by infant terrible Tao Lin, the harbinger of the Internet generation of Twenty-First Century American letters–he’s been likened to Mayakovsky scribbling via text message. Then, Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu–the theorist of “net neutrality,” the principle that advocates an Internet without restrictions–discusses The Master Switch, his play-by-play about how corporations have controlled American communications media. Arianna Huffington calls the book “A must-read for all Americans who want to remain the ones deciding what they can read, watch, and listen to.” He’ll be joined in conversation with avant-garde poet Tan Lin, whose eleven new collections are available for free download and appropriate online detritus: YouTube, Chinese-English translators, and copied-and-pasted blurbs describing other books.
Tan Lin reading at Johns Hopkins, November 8th
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Tan Lin will be reading for the new Johns Hopkins “Poetry at Hopkins” reading series.
Monday, November 8th, 6PM
Johns Hopkins University Reading Series
Marjorie Fisher Hall, Gilman 50
Baltimore, MD
More details here: http://english.jhu.edu/events
Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance reviewed in Ballet-Dance Magazine
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Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance reviewed in Ballet-Dance magazine.
“Soares’s Martha Hill & the Making of American Dance is researched and written in dedicated service to dance history. Martha Hill mentored Janet Soares and clearly passed on a love of spreading the good word about the dance field. Through this lucid and insightful work, Soares passes on this love to all.”
Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction reviewed in Locus Magazine
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Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction reviewed in Locus magazine.
“…almost certainly the most useful SF teaching and historical anthology now available.”
A thoughtful Q&A with Kazim Ali, on American poetry
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Click here to read a thoughtful Q&A with Kazim Ali, on American poetry, from the Poetry Society of America.
Kazim is the author of Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities.
Balasaraswati reviewed in Ballet Magazine
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Douglas M. Knight’s book Balasaraswati: Her Art and Life, was reviewed in Ballet Magazine. Read the review here.
Marcia Siegel receives Selma Jeanne Cohen Memorial Prize
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Marcia B. Siegel’s book Mirrors and Scrims: The Life and Afterlife of Ballet is the recipient of the 2010 Selma Jeanne Cohen Memorial Prize offered by the American Society for Aesthetics, for outstanding work in dance theory, dance history, or dance aesthetics.
