Letters from Robots
by Lizzy AckerBooks
When I say Diana Salier’s poetry is really meant for Twitter, I don’t mean it as an insult. There’s like over a hundred million people on Twitter, and if poetry is the practice of yelling at the top of your lungs about what it means to be human (I say it is), why not yell it to a hundred million people instead of 20 at a reading in a bar or at best, a hundred, if you’re lucky and you get someone to publish your book?
ARACELIS GIRMAY with Melinda Cardozo
by Melinda CardozoBooks
Kingdom Animalia, the second book of poetry by Aracelis Girmay, begins where Teeth (Curbstone Books, 2007) left off. Its gentle movements between all scales of devastation and absorbing, tenable visions of hope as a relation—linguistic, bodily, historical—also, perhaps improbably, takes Darwin’s Origin of Species as a point of departure.
JONATHAN GALASSI with Adam Fitzgerald
by Adam FitzgeraldBooks
Since the late 1980s Jonathan Galassi has been editor-in-chief, President, and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, one of the premier publishing houses based in New York City. But Galassi’s life in letters is even more storied and accomplished.
Just Try Quitting Hollywood
by Justin CourterBooks
What’s eating Ardennes Thrush? An award-winning actress, she’s worked relentlessly to get where she is in Hollywood—and then she quits. Right when the world becomes her oyster, Ardennes clams up. She spends her time ruminating in a hotel room while her husband, a famous director, is out on location struggling to keep his most recent project on track.
Life is Crappy, But What Are You Going to Do, Right?
by Paul Charles GriffinBooks
A fundamental argument of a particular type of fiction is that life is crappy. Scott Wrobel’s story collection Cul de Sac is a first-rate defense of this perennial thesis.Chaos, Control
by Bernard LumpkinBooks
In this monograph’s opening essay, Claudia Schmuckli, director of the University of Houston’s Blaffer Gallery which organized the exhibition, ably situates Feher’s work in the context of Minimalist strategies—seriality, symmetry, and geometric forms—while letting the artist speak for himself about his process: “I accumulate items, some quite intentionally, and some rather haphazardly.
Space Oddity
by Michael SpurgeonBooks
The Infinite Tides opens with mathematical genius Keith Corcoran arriving aboard the International Space Station, where “the swing of the hatch felt…like a sudden outrushing of the tide.” In fulfilling his lifelong ambition of becoming an astronaut, Corcoran’s amazement at his own achievement is palpable.
