Who said it, James Joyce or Kool Keith? (“One is the most innovative writer of the 20th century, the other is James Joyce.”)
Philip Larkin once said, “Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.” Two new collections are out now: Philip Larkin: Poems, a best-of selection compiled and introduced by Martin Amis, and The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin, edited with a commentary by Archie Burnett.
The baffling trend of books titled The ___’s Daughter.
Small presses and literary nonprofits need money. So what if it comes from Amazon’s deep pockets?
You’re a fiction writer. You want to give your stories the best chance at inclusion in the Pushcart Prize collection, the Best American Short Stories series, and the PEN / O. Henry Award series. So where should you submit? The Desirability Scale may have the answers.
“An evergrowing compilation of ‘final sentences’ from every literary work, if we could find them all, that has ever existed.”
Ten poems that are easy enough to memorize this National Poetry Month. (But there are so many others. What about James Wright’s “The Jewel”?)