Since none of us can wait, I just spoke with publicist James Meader. He confirmed that the 1950s section of The Paris Review online archive will be up on Monday, November 15, 2004.
Category / Literary Magazines
New Granta
The newest Granta has hit the stands. And with the emphasis on hidden histories, there looks like some juicy stuff to sift through. T.C. Boyle, J. Robert Lennon, Geoffrey Beattie, Diana Athill. None of it available online, mind you, but a very enticing reason to hit the literary journal section.
Happy Season
Scott O’Connor writes in with news of The Happy Season, a collaborative poem/photography chronicle now in week two (and very much inspired by Fray, it would appear).
StorySouth
Moorish Girl has the rundown on the StorySouth shortlist. Laila not only has links to all the stories, but she e-mailed all the authors and got every single one of them to talk about their stories. This is the kind of supercool effort that really demonstrates the potential of the blogging community. (I mean, seriously. Would a major newspaper do this sort of thing? No, they’d defer to J-Franz’s latest.)
Anne Tyler: Unwavering Instigator of Irritation
Michiko on Joe Ezterhas: “As for the rest of this ridiculously padded, absurdly self-indulgent book, the reader can only cry: T.M.I.! Too Much Information! And: Get an editor A.S.A.P.!” What the F.U.C.K. is up with the A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S.?
A new book will explain the seven most important unsolved math problems. One of them involves working out the probability ratio for the Democrats in November.
How the hell did the Washington Times snag a review copy of the $3,000 Ali book? Did the reviewer have to fill out a loan application and submit a credit report?
The new issue of the resurrected Argosy is out. It’s the first issue since 1943, with work by Jeffrey Ford, Michael Moorcock, Ann Cummins and Benjamin Rosenbaum. Each issue will be packaged in two volumes: one the main magazine, the other a novella. The magazine is printed bimonthly and has an affordable subsciption rate. The Moorcock story is the return of metatemporal detective Sir Seaton Begg.
The Age weighs in on the legacy of long novels, but cites Tolkien and Patrick O’Brian instead of David Foster Wallace and Rising Up and Rising Down.
Bookslut has posted the standard response the Times is issuing.
Christopher Paolini: the next J.W. Rowling?
A.S. Byatt weighs in on the Grossman translation.
The Globe and Mail reports that Tyler “hasn’t a boring or irritating word in her vocabulary.” Of course. You can find the boredom and the irritation in the Caucasian malaise and the treacle.
And Radosh and Slate are looking into the reliability of that Times sex slave story.