rants, raves, and writings by Dylan Kinnett
In this roundup: Patti Smith, the crap they write on book jackets, and more. Our Capacity for “Serious Noticing” Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace.
read more →visual-poetry: »if time is money i have no time« by olivia steele
read more →Litblog Roundup is a bi-weekly overview of topics, trends and highlights from the literary Internet. In this roundup: literary maps, writing about not writing, hip-hop poetics, and more.
read more →Harper Lee’s new/old book, rejection letters, the poetics of information overload, and more.
read more →In honor of Real Pants’ new foray into podcasting, this roundup offers an overview of the wide world of literary podcasting. Podcasting! It’s the hip new thing.
read more →Litblog Roundup is a bi-weekly overview of topics, trends and highlights from the literary Internet. In this roundup: how to host a literary reading, the poetics of failure, and an assortment of creepy children.
read more →Litblog Roundup is a bi-weekly overview of topics, trends and highlights from the literary Internet. In this roundup I’m going to break from my usual habit of writing a round-up about many things. This roundup is about a single issue that has had discussions going all over the literary Internet.
The irons have barely cooled from the fire of controversy surrounding the incident when Kenneth Goldsmith appropriated the autopsy of Michael Brown. Now, another important conceptual writer has committed an act of racially charged appropriation. Here’s what happened.
read more →some greatly exaggerated rumors about Mark Twain, the value of paragraphs, and more.
read more →If you have a lifetime of writings, it can get difficult to sort through it all. I’d like to describe a the system I use to keep track of what I’ve written. Suggestions for improvement are welcome!
read more →a massive digital archive of literary recordings, and also the question: are there too many books?
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