Spring is just over in the great patch of desert that stretches westward from Oman in the Persian Gulf region to Morocco and beyond, reaching to the Atlantic coast of Africa. Figuratively too, a season of the flowering of the liberal democratic aspirations of the Arabs and North Africans in this Arabic-speaking swathe of land, has come about since end-2010.
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Radiation and rubble — that’s Japan’s reality now and for the foreseeable future; the only escape is to seize the bull called “relevance” by the horns and fling it to the devil. Bookstores still exist, despite what the Internet has supposedly done to bricks and mortar, they proliferate, mutate, flaunt size or the lack of it, sport eccentricities or the lack of them.
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Legendary copywriter Eugene Schwartz created a system of working that, before he was finished, enabled him to write nine books, dozens and dozens of successful ads, and countless articles for well-known publications all over the world. And he did it in style.
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Michelle Rafter shares interviewing techniques from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
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Author Melanie Padgett Powers shares insight on her writing process.
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Writer Olin Morales shares tips and pointers on how to become a better writer by becoming a better person first and foremost.
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phati’tude announces the launch of “Real Poetry, Real Talk,” a hot new reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club on Thursday, May 12, 2011 featuring distinguished poets Louis Reyes Rivera and Rachel Hadas, and is hosted by Jon Sands.
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There have been a lot of inquiries to the magazine, specifically, questions about deadlines, availability of the issues and contributors’ copies. So here is the scoop.
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Jon Sands, host of phati’tude’s “Real Poetry, Real Talk”, is a great up-and-coming poet that covers the gamut: teacher, activist, slam poet, spoken word artist and now, published author with his first poetry collection, The New Clean.
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phati’tude Literary Magazine is proud to announce the release of CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY THROUGH LITERATURE: From the Harlem Renaissance to Today. This double-issue (246 pages!) will cost $20 and will be available for sale on amazon.com on May 6, 2011.
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phati’tude Literary Magazine’s SUMMER 1960s SPECIAL takes a look at the 1960s through the lens of today’s art, culture and politics. We want writers to share their stories from the 1960s or how they equate to contemporary experiences.
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Check out photos from the 1st Annual African American Literary Festival at the Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center in Corona, New York!
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The New York literary agency Inkwell Management of New York has scored a coup in signing up Wael Ghonim, the young man who set up anonymously the Facebook campaign that helped trigger the Egyptian uprising in January.
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Donald Keene, a prominent scholar of Japanese literature at Columbia University, has decided to move permanently to Japan after delivering his final lecture at the university later this month, sources close to him said Friday.
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The Swedish panel that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature dispute bias when it comes to the selection process . . . some say there is a bias toward European writers, while others say that it’s negligible.
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Elif Batuman, a Turkish-American professor, infectiously conveys the dreamlike inscrutability of Russian literature. With personal anecdotes, she also captures the way life can be as mystifying and profound as these books.
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Writer Richard Ford talks about writing about work for his new fiction anthology, “Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories About Work,” and about the role of work in American culture.
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Caitlin O’Sullivan’s small press was one of several in attendance for MSU’s More Than Writing Conference. Subscribers can receive 12 a year for $20, and O’Sullivan is now preparing her third installment.
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The wickedly funny British novelist, Howard Jacobson, and his literary embodiment, “Oliver Walzer,” deluded themselves into thinking that competitive ping-pong would bring them fame, riches and the affections of beautiful women.
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Liao Yiwu hasn’t been arrested—yet. But the Chinese writer and musician, who served prison time in the 1990s for his work, is currently facing a variety of Chinese censorship measures, including a ban on his books and a travel ban. These are the kind of cases that reflects PEN’s central mission—fighting for freedom of speech.
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Dubai: The topics of power, dignity and passion were central to Nigerian poet Wole Soyinka’s appearance at the first Emirates Airline Festival of Literature. The writer became caught up in the Nigerian civil war of 1967 to 1970 and spent 22 months in prison on accusations of conspiracy to attempt brokering peace between the Nigerian and Biafran sides. He later wrote about his experience in the memoir The Man Died published in 1972.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . Mark Twain is a best seller and a hit, while F. Scott Fitzgerald’s mansion where Jay Gatsby’s beloved Daisy Buchanan lived is going to be razed. OK, it’s not really Daisy’s mansion. It’s actually a house on Long Island that some people think inspired Fitzgerald.
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Guo Moruo published his first poetry anthology, The Goddesses, in 1921, which laid the foundation for new-style poetry and gained immediate success. He co-founded the Creation Society in Shanghai, a literary association imbued with a romantic spirit that promoted modern vernacular literature.
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Melody Wong, a teacher at an international school in Hong Wong asks the question: How does one deal with classic literature that uses racialized epithets?
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Bidisha fantasizes about her ideal literary festival in support of women’s history month. that would feature events dedicated to Janet Frame, Penelope Fitzgerald, Octavia Butler, Edith Pargeter, Angela Carter and Doris Lessing.
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The Faculty of Arts at York St. John’s University is hosting a series of lectures that will offer a fresh approach to creative writing and literature studies.
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