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Maud Newton's writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Granta, Bookforum, Paris Review Daily, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Awl, Barnes & Noble Review, The Boston Globe, NPR, Washington Post Book World, and many other publications. She received the 2009 Narrative Prize for "When the Flock Changed," an excerpt from her novel-in-progress, and the 2004 Irwin and Alice Stark Fiction Prize from City College for the short story "Regarding the Insurance Defense Attorney." Though best known as a book blogger, she blogs a lot more rarely these days, and the scope of what she's written about since starting her site, MaudNewton.com, in 2002 has always been broad. She still loves wasting time on the Internet. You can find her on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest, and the (very neglected) Chimerist.
Novel excerpt
"When the Flock Changed" (not the name of the book, which is Fervor):
Personal Essays
"The Rapture Meets My 40th Birthday":
"Conversations You Have at Twenty":
"Portrait of my Father" (mini-essay):
"Remembering Harry Crews" (on the death of my former teacher):
Criticism, Opinions, Etc.
"My Son Went to Heaven (and All I Got Was a No.1 Bestseller)":
"When Your Shrink Dies: Emma Forrest's Therapy Memoir":
"Another Thing to Sort of Pin on David Foster Wallace" (I didn't come up with the title!):
"After the Affair: On Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford" (a back-and-forth with Alexander Chee): http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/After-the-affair
On John Cheever:
On Muriel Spark:
On Adam Levin's The Instructions:
On Joan Didion's Blue Nights:
What Would Jesus Buy?:
Doubt: A Syllabus:
Interview with Alison Bechdel: http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=18390
Better Boundaries, with Muriel Spark:
Short Stories (very old)
"Luke" (an early piece of what turned into my novel):
"Regarding the Insurance Defense Attorney":
"Post-Extraction": http://swinkmag.com/archive/newton.html
"A Little Sugar": http://www.pindeldyboz.com/mnsugar.htm
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
Jan. 30: MAUD NEWTON
Feb. 13: THE SILENT HISTORY
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| Matthew Derby is the co-author of The Silent History, and serialized, exploratory novel for iPad and iPhone, now available in the iTunes store. He is also the author of Super Flat Times: Stories (Back Bay Books, 2003). Stories available to read online: http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/derby.htm http://failbetter.com/05/Behavior%20Pilot.htm http://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/january_in_december/ |
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| Eli Horowitz was the managing director and then publisher of McSweeney's for eight years, working closely with authors including Nick Hornby, Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, William Vollmann, and Stephen King. He is the co-author of The Clock Without a Face, a treasure-hunt mystery, and Everything You Know Is Pong, an illustrated cultural history of ping pong. His design work have been honored by I.D., Print, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Before McSweeney's, he was employed as a carpenter and wrote science trivia questions tenuously linked to popular films. He was born in Virginia and now lives in San Francisco. |
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| Kevin Moffett is the author of two books, Permanent Visitors, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, and Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events. He is a frequent contributor to McSweeney's and his stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Believer, A Public Space, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. He has received the National Magazine Award, the Nelson Algren Award, the Pushcart Prize, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Silent History, a collaborative multi-part narrative, written with Matt Derby and Eli Horowitz, was released as an app for mobile devices in October 2012. Old Believer article: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200411/?read=article_moffett Story: http://www.fivechapters.com/2009/the-birdman/ A Rumpus interview: http://therumpus.net/2012/10/the-rumpus-interview-with-kevin-moffett/ |
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| Russell Quinn is a software developer, digital designer, and one-third of Ying Horowitz & Quinn. Previously, he co-founded the multi-national digital agency Spoiled Milk, was McSweeney's Digital Media Director, and made tools for game consoles at Sony. His work has been featured in Wired, TIME, Creative Review and Computer Arts. A native Englishman, Russell left the UK in 2005, eventually settling in California after periods in Denmark and Switzerland. http://www.russellquinn.com/work/ |
Feb. 27: CATHY PARK HONG
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Cathy Park Hong's first book, Translating Mo'um, was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, published in 2007 by W.W. Norton, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Her third book of poems, Engine Empire, was published in May 2012, also by W.W. Norton.
Hong is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a Village Voice Fellowship for Minority Reporters. Her poems have been published in A Public Space, Poetry, Paris Review, Conjunctions, McSweeney's, Harvard Review, Boston Review, The Nation, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, and other journals. She is an Assistant Professor at Sarah Lawrence College and is regular faculty at the Queens MFA program in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Mar. 27: ANNE WALDMAN (MICHAEL MAHONEY MEMORIAL READER)
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| Internationally recognized and acclaimed poet Anne Waldman has been an active member of the "Outrider" experimental poetry community, a culture she helped create and nurture, for many years, taking on the roles of writer, editor, master teacher, performer, poetics scholar, infra-structure curator, and cultural/political activist. Her poetry is recognized in the lineage of Whitman and Ginsberg, and in the Beat, New York School and Black Mountain trajectories of New American Poetry. Yet she remains a highly original "open field investigator" of consciousness, committed to the possibilites of radical shifts in language and mind-states to create new modal structures and montages of attention. She is the author of more than fourty books, including the mini-classic Fast Speaking Woman, a collection of essays entitled Vow to Poetry, and several selected-poem editions including Helping the Dreamer, Kill or Cure and In the Room of Never Grieve. She has concentrated on the long poem as a cultural intervention with such projects as Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, Manatee/Humanity, a book-length rhizomic meditation on evolution and endangered species, and the monumental anti-war feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment, a 25 year project in three volumes, which was awarded the 2012 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry. Her forthcoming book from Penguin Poets (2013) Gossamurmur is an allegory of Imposters, Doppelgangers, Deciders and a romp through Heian Japan and Vedic India. Publishers Weekly recently referred to Waldman as "a counter-cultural giant." In 1966, she co-founded and directed The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, working there for over a decade. She also co-founded Full Court Press, with Ron Padgett and Joan Simon, and, in 1974, with Allen Ginsberg, the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, the first Buddhist inspired university in the western hemisphere. Colleagues for many years, Ginsberg called Waldman his "spiritual wife." She is a Distinguished Professor of Poetics at Naropa and continues to work to preserve the school's substantial literary and oral archive. She has edited and co-edited many collections based on the holdings of the Kerouac School including Civil Disobediences and Beats at Naropa. She is also the editor of the collection Nice to See You, an homage to poet Ted Berrigan, The Beat Book, and co-editor of The Angel Hair Anthology. A new cross-cultural anthology published by Coffee House Press is forthcoming in 2014. Waldman is the recipient of the prestigious Shelley Memorial Award and is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She has been a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, and has held the Emily Harvey residency in Venice. She has worked at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and at the Women's Christian College in Tokyo. She has presented her work at conferences and festivals around the world, most recently in Wuhan, Beijing, Berlin, Nicaragua, Prague, Kerala, Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta, Marrakech, Tangiers, Casablanca and Madrid. She worked for the State Department lecturing at Muslim colleges in Kerala, and taught poetry to Berber School children in Marrakech for the Tamaas Foundation in the summers of 2011 and 2012. Her work has been translated into numerous languages. She has collaborated extensively with artists, musicians, and dancers, including George Schneeman, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Tuttle, Donna Dennis, and Pat Steir, and the theatre director Judith Malina. Her fine print collaboration with Pat Steir, CRY STALL GAZE, is in production at the Brodsky Center at Rutgers University. Her play Red Noir was produced by the Living Theatre and ran for three months in 2010. Recently, she has been working on audio, film and video projects, with writer and video/film director Ed Bowes, and with her son, musician and composer Ambrose Bye. With Ambrose, she has created four albums, including Eye of the Falcon, and The Milk of Universal Kindness. A workshop performance Cyborg on the Zattere, with music by composer Steven Taylor and twelve performers, including cellist Ha-Yang Kim, reed instrumentalist Marty Erlich and a Renaissance trio, premiered at the Douglas Dunn Salon in the spring of 2011. This "Poundatorio" takes on the "knot" of Ezra Pound, his poetics and politics. It includes settings for parts of the Pisan Cantos. For many years, Waldman has worked with the anti-nuclear Guardianship Project in Boulder. In the 1970s, she was arrested, along with Allen Ginsberg and activist Daniel Ellsberg, at Rocky Flats, which led to her involvement with nuclear waste accountability. This work, according to Waldman, is "a nearly quarter of a million year project." Waldman divides her time between New York City and Boulder, Colorado. |
Apr. 3: BHANU KAPIL & DEB OLIN UNFERTH
Bhanu Kapil teaches writing through memory, prose and the monster at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She also teaches in the MFA program at Goddard College. She is the author of four full-length works of experiemntal writing, most recently Schizophrene (Nightboat Books, 2011) and the unpublished BAN. Since 2011, she has been performing compound scene from (for) BAN in venues within and beyond the U.S.
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| Deb Olin Unferth is the author of the memoir Revolution, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection Minor Robberies, and the novel Vacation, winner of the Cabell First Novel Award. Her work appears in Harper's, The New York Times, McSweeney's, Boston Review, and elsewhere. She has received two Pushcart Prizes and a Creative Capital Grant for Innovative Literature. She is an associate professor as Wesleyan University. Photo by Margaret Olin |
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Apr. 17: LEIGH NEWMAN
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| Leigh Newman's memoir Still Points North is forthcoming from Dial Press in spring 2013. She is the Deputy Editor of Oprah.com where she writes about books, life, happiness, survival, and - on rare, lucky days - food. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in One Story, Tin House, The New York Times "Modern Love" and "City" sections, Fiction, New York Tyrant, O the Oprah Magazine, Oprah.com, Condé Nast Brides, Condé Nast Concierge, Travel Holiday, Ski, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, and Bookforum. Her work has been anthologized in Crown's The Collected Traveler book series and My Parents Were Awesome (Villard, 2011). She was the co-editor for One Ring Zero's The Recipe Project (Black Balloon, 2011) and currently serves as an editor-at-large for the indie press Black Balloon Publishing. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/fashion/15love.html?_r=2& http://www.budgettravel.com/feature/spains-new-golden-age,6708/ http://www.centerforfiction.org/child-dog-stay-run-by-leigh-newman |
May 1: CLARE BURSON
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| "Hers is a knowing voice, world-weary like Lucinda Williams', expressive like Kathleen Edwards' [and] mysterious like Julie Holland's." - Fred Mills for Harp Magazine Of her musical objectives, indie songstress Clare Burson explains, "I've always leaned towards poetic simplicity and subtlety in my music - wanting to express as much as I can with the fewest possible words and musical flourishes." This desire for melodic minimalism is evident in her critically acclaimed releases, The In-Between, Idaho, and Thieves, each of which is marked by evocative imagery, subtle metaphor, and effortless harmonies. Burson builds upon this aesthetic with Silver and Ash, her most ambitious project yet. Released by Rounder Records on September 14, 2010, and featured in The New York Times and on NPR, Silver and Ash is a concept album that imagines Burson's maternal grandmother's life in Germany, from her birth in 1919 to her escape in 1938. For this project, Burson visited her own childhood home in Memphis, where she conducted interviews with both grandmothers, and ventured to the childhood homes of her ancestors in Germany, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, and the Ukraine. The result of Burson's travel, research, and ancestral archaeology is a stunning album of 10 original songs that inhabit and give life to her grandmother's story as well as Clare's own struggles with rupture, silence, guilt, empathy, and continuity. The album was produced by Grammy nominated Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, My Morning Jacket, R.E.M.), and with the help of her band, Mark Spencer on guitar (Son Volt, Laura Cantrell), Tony Leon on drums (Ollabelle, Levon Helm), and Andy Cotton on bass, Burson's lush string arrangements and rich vocals - at times wistful, at times full of desperation, but at all times direct - come together to fill the 10 songs on Silver and Ash with nostalgia and longing. A classically trained violinist, and later, conversant in Bluegrass, Celtic and Klezmer fiddle tunes, Burson began playing guitar while studying history at Brown University. After college and a year in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, Burson spent two years in Boston before returning to Tennessee. Currently, Clare lives in Brooklyn, NY. |
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