Under this cut are spoilers for City of Lost Souls, but also an in-depth discussion of sexual assault as it pertains to books in general and The Mortal Instruments in specific, with a discussion of rape culture and rape myths. There is also an excerpt from a scene that contains a violent physical assault.
Apparently there will be a High & Mighty brewery in the next building over from our office. The mind boggles.
Kelly Link will be part of Monkey Business’s events on Sunday with Motoyuki Shibata (star translator who translated Magic for Beginners into Japanese!). I’ll be taking Ursula down. Maybe see you there!
PEN World Voices - Japan/America: Writers’ Dialogue
Sunday, May 6, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, New York
Dialogue: Masatsugu Ono + Stuart Dybek / Tomoka Shibasaki + Kelly Link (Interpreter: Hitomi Yoshio)
Japan Night @ Joe’s Pub
Sunday, May 6, 7:30pm-8:30pm
425 Lafayette Street, New York
Readings by Masatsugu Ono, Tomoka Shibasaki, Stuart Dybek, Kelly Link and Barry Yourgrau introduced by Yoko Sawai + Music by Neo Blues Maki
Readings
Wednesday, May 9, 7:00pm
BookCourt, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
Readings by Tomoka Shibasaki, Masatsugu Ono, Roland Kelts, Ted Goossen and Barry Yourgrau / Host: Motoyuki Shibata
The ASIA SOCIETY interview is here.
Widely referred to as Japan’s leading translator of contemporary American literature, Motoyuki Shibata has been responsible for rendering American writers as diverse as Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, Richard Powers and Edward Gorey into Japanese. As a…
Listen to chapter 1 of our new audiobook of Trash Sex Magic by @JenStevenson (@smallbeerpress), “at once sexy, beautifully written and passing strange.”Trash Sex Magic
by Jennifer Stevenson
Print Publisher: Small Beer Press
Narrator: Arielle Lipshaw
Listen to First Chapter Download mp3“This just absolutely rocks. It’s lyrical, it’s weird and it’s sexy in a very funky way. Trash Sex Magic is full of people you would maybe be afraid to meet in real life, but once you’ve met them fictionally you are damn sorry you can’t at least have a beer with them.” - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
There will be all these poets and fictioneers and readers and writers and publishers and artists and it will be fun. We’re going to have a table at the book fair and will be enjoying all those readings and peoples. Also, Julia Holmes (author of the fabby Meeks) will be there. Yay!
Focusing on the ever-changing landscape of new American poetry and fiction, the festival showcases emerging poets and fiction writers alongside dozens of independent journals and presses in a unique national event. Featuring readings by diverse and talented poets and writers, roundtables on crucial creative and professional issues, and a press fair, the festival introduces audiences to vital contemporary writing and explores issues essential to the future of American literature.
Schedule of Events
Friday, April 13
6:30 pm JOURNAL & BOOK FAIR opening reception
7:30 pm READING with Robert Fernandez, Amelia Gray, Anna Moschovakis, & Vincent Standley
Saturday, April 14
11:30 am JOURNAL & BOOK FAIR continues
12:00 pm READING with Christopher DeWeese, Corwin Ericson, Julia Holmes, & Paul Legault
1:15 pm ROUNDTABLES
Nuts & Bolts: From Manuscript to Book
moderated by Zach Savich
Digital Hybrids: How New Media Shape New Writing
moderated by Blake Butler
2:30 pm ROUNDTABLES
Editors’ Reading featuring bateau, Conjunctions, jubilat, & Noö Journal
Book/Art: The Book As Collaborative Form
moderated by Guy Pettit
3:45 pm READING with Blake Butler, Macgregor Card, Julia Cohen, & Anna Joy Springer
7:00 pm JOURNAL & BOOK FAIR reopens
7:30 pm KEYNOTE READING with James Tate, celebrating the publication of Eternal Ones of the Dream: Later Selected Poems
All events take place at the UMASS FINE ARTS CENTER. Free and open to the public.
merumsal (Karen Lord, yay!):
The Hugo and Campbell nominations were announced yesterday! The full list at Locus Online has a lot of excellent names and titles. Congratulations to all the nominees!
I’m happy to announce that I’m one of the nominees for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer!
Me too!
I am really, really, really excited for the release of BLACK HEART on April 3rd. It’s the final book of the Curse Workers series, full of twists and turns and reveals that I hope you’ll be surprised by. This series was a real departure for me and I’ve had a lot of fun writing…
