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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Studio 360 Interview w/ Marlene van Niekerk

Certain public radio affiliates (I’m looking at you OPB) aren’t fortunate enough to carry Studio 360. Thankfully, they’re kind enough to share their content online. Listen to Kurt Anderson interview Marlene van Niekerk about her novel Agaat. (Bonus: Kurt will teach you how to pronounce it)

And soccer fans, think the vuvuzela horn is The Worst [...]

Suggestion Box (Please Help)

Dearest Readers,
We can’t thank you enough for your support over the years–you read our magazine, you buy our books, you attend our workshops. And we’d like to give back to you–we really would. We want to look to the future and continue to innovate; we want move you with the stories, poems, and books we [...]

“I am become death, the shatterer of worlds.”

David Markson passed away this week at age 82. In our 10th-Anniversary issue, our own Rob Spillman wrote a tribute to Markson, and particularly his later novels.  As anyone who’s had the pleasure of reading his work knows, he’ll be sorely missed.
David Markson is going down fighting, and he’s not giving an inch to convention, [...]

Fathers and Sons

The perfect gift for the men in your life, The Tin House Father-and-Son pack includes The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto and How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself.
-One part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto’s The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink—properly. The Pulitzer Prize and [...]