Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Reading Tomorrow! (Thursday 9.29)
Monday, September 19, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
!!!
"This season, all of our stage performances at Symphony Space will feature a commissioned short story. For BASS 2011, we commissioned a story from Juan Martinez and it will be performed by Cristin Milioti. You may remember Cristin from last season on 30 Rock where she played comedian Abby Flynn, Liz Lemon’s foil."
I'm psyched beyond the telling! (Also, and by the way, the short thing that I wrote is titled "Best Worst American.") Read the rest of the Selected Shorts news piece here.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Nabokovilia: Sam Savage's Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
I had always imagined that my life story, if and when I wrote it, would have a great first line: something lyric like Nabokov's "Lolita, light of my fire, fire of my loins"; or if I could not do lyric, then something sweeping like Tolstoy's "All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." People remember those words even when they have forgotten everything else about the books.
Friday, September 09, 2011
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Boyd on Nabokov the Psychologist
From the 2011 Autumn issue of the American Scholar -- Boyd on Nabokov as a psychologist:
Vladimir Nabokov once dismissed as “preposterous” the French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet’s assertions that his novels eliminated psychology: “The shifts of levels, the interpenetration of successive impressions and so forth belong of course to psychology,” Nabokov said, “—psychology at its best.” Later asked, “Are you a psychological novelist?” Nabokov replied: “All novelists of any worth are psychological novelists.”(The rest here.)
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