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Becker awarded Michael Nelson Prize
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Congratulations to Christine Becker, recipient of the 2011 Michael Nelson Prize, given by the International Association for Media and History. Becker was honored for her book It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television.
Joanna Russ, 1937-2011
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We are saddened at the passing of Joanna Russ. She was one of the “greats” in science fiction and in feminism. The Press has two of her works, We Who Are About To… and The Two of Them, in print. Her classic novel, The Female Man, is still in print through Beacon Press. Read more about Russ at the Locus website.
Ed Roberson at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
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Ed Roberson is reading at the Poetry Stage of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (USC Campus) on April 30th, 2:30-3PM. To read more about the festival check out their website.
the new black receives a starred review in Library Journal
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“Shockley’s work incorporates elements of myth without being patently “mythical” and is personal without being self-indulgent, sentimental without being saccharine. … Highly recommended to readers of cultural studies as well as poetry and for library collections of all types and sizes.”
To read the full review visit Library Journal.
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
Tan Lin and friends at Printed Matter
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Tan Lin, author of Seven Controlled Vocabularies, will be celebrating at a Republication Party at Printed Matter.
July 29th, 5:00 PM
195 Tenth Ave.
New York, NY
Printed Matter presents Tan Lin, Danny Snelson, and friends at this Republication Party for the volumes republished at the Kelly House Event. This event will celebrate the publications created at the “On-the-Spot Republication Event” held at Kelly Writer’s House on April 21st, where a team of poet-editors (including Chris Alexander, Alejandro Crawford, Kareem Estefan, J. Gordon Faylor, Kristen Gallagher, Lawrence Giffin, Diana Hamilton, Eddie Hopely, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Patrick Lovelace, Jeremy Thompson, Sara Wintz, and Al Filreis) worked with Tan Lin in the republishing of Seven Controlled Vocabularies on the spot in a variety of formats. The works included Handmade book, PDF, lulu.com, Appendix, Powerpoint, Kanban Board/Post-Its, Blurbs, Dual Language (Chinese/English) Edition, micro lecture, Selectric II interview, wine/cheese reception, Q&A (xerox), and a film. These items will be on hand at Printed Matter on June 24th. Join the discussion on what constitutes a “book” in the digital age! Read more about this project at the EDIT Web site.
(212) 925-0325
Tan Lin, author of Seven Controlled Vocabularies, on the air
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Listen to an interview with Tan Lin from The Marketplace of Ideas.
