Mon, May 21, 2012

More Barf for the Void: Some Thoughts on Online Lit

Posted 4 months, 1 week ago

Over at Luna Park review, Travis Kurowski takes Bill Henderson, editor of the Pushcart Prize anthology, to task over his dismissal of online publication. Like Kurowski I really love the Pushcart Prize–it is probably my favorite yearly anthology–but it is hard to disagree that Henderson’s…

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Literary Muppets, Amazon’s Issues, Year End Lists, and More Lit Links

Posted 5 months, 1 week ago

- Emma Straub has a great post at The Paris Review about Miss Piggy, Literary Icon. Miss Piggy “wrote” a guide to life book filled with wisdom such as:

There is no such thing as a “correct” weight for any particular height—they are only averages. And moi, who has a perfect figure, can…

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Worlds Without Forgetting: TFT Review of Olivier Schrauwen’s The Man Who Grew His Beard

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

One thing that stories in Belgian cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen’s The Man Who Grew His Beard share is that they question their own form-and they usually feature bearded men who draw-but otherwise resist association. This is, after all, Schrauwen’s first collection of stories, and much like…

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