“Larry Neal once described riots as the process of grabbing hold of, taking control of, our collective history. Earlier this week, I started thinking that our version of that, our history, had been taken captive and was being held right in the centre of the city as a force of negative [...]
Posted: August 30, 2011 |
Just uploaded, Corina Copp’s eloquent affectionate introduction to the work of Jean Day.
“Day is not the only working poet to know better than to mistake art for labor, but to labor anyhow in her art and cite her reading. Yet nonetheless, this sourcing is where the joy is, in such a state of irreparability. It [...]
Posted: August 25, 2011 |
CLR5 contains a previously uncollected story by Donald Barthelme. Here’s how we came to publish it (by editor Boris Jardine).
I first heard about Donald Barthelme’s work on the New Yorker’s Out Loud podcast, in an interview with Louis Menand (available here). Menand describes Barthelme’s distinctive style, his status as a ‘postmodern’ writer, and talks in [...]
