May 9, 2007
Lolguistics
Lolcats are image macros featuring cats captioned with a specific form of language, one with no definitive label as of yet. I’ve seen it referred to as Kittahh and Kitteh […]
May 9, 2007
Short Takes
The language of lolcats—kitteh pidgin. Bonus: lolbrarians (via Language Log, which is valiantly resisting lolguistics). Canaries in a coalmine: “Like it or not, the indicator species for American daily journalism […]
May 8, 2007
Short Takes
Doesn’t Rager Media sound like it was started by–hm–a bunch of rugby players? (LORDS!) “Cruelty can be righteously opposed, eventually dismissed. A freewheeling carelessness with your cares is something else […]
May 7, 2007
Short Takes
“There is a way for Negro novelists to go at their problems, just as there are Jewish or Italian ways. Mr. Ellison has not adopted a minority tone. If he […]
May 6, 2007
Take Two
Yesterday’s word from Dictionary.com was moil. It fits better for today than today’s word, which is sapid. As I moiled today, doing research on Margaret Atwood, I discovered this 1995 […]
May 4, 2007
Take Two
PEN announced its 2007 literary award recipients. Phillip Roth will receive the inaugural PEN/Saul Bellow Award, recognizing “a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English […]
May 3, 2007
Take Two
Motoko Rich of the New York Times asks, “Are Book Reviewers Out of Print?” Our friends Dan Wickett, Maud Newton, Edward Champion, and Mark Sarvas, among others, answer. To my […]
May 3, 2007
Ransom Memorial Croquet Gala
This morning, as the final class and final project of my new course, The Little Magazine in America, we celebrated the first John Crowe Ransom Memorial Croquet Gala. That may […]
May 3, 2007
New on the KR Site
A few new items of interest on the KR site: Man Martin’s “Dollywood” from the Spring issue. KR fiction editor Nancy Zafris talks to author and poet Rebecca McClanahan. Enjoy!
May 2, 2007
Where Do Interviews Belong?
I recently asked a question of some of the KR editors, and now I’m interested in a wider take. The issue is literary interviews and where they belong. We’ve featured […]
May 2, 2007
Take Two
[Filling in for the lovely Ms. Lopatto as she makes her grand Ohio road tour.] Two very different takes on literature found on–eek!–television recently, and thanks to the Internets you […]
April 30, 2007
Short Takes
“You’d think, after centuries of printing and selling them, book industry professionals would understand how the business works.” A roundup of the conversation on NBCC re: saving the book review. […]