For next week’s English Now session (afternoon), please make sure you’ve read This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You by Jon McGregor.
For the following week read The Woman in Black. Phil will be taking the afternoon sessions from then till the end of term.
Further details of Chris Petit’s new publication – a 12″ LP – at Test Centre.
So poetry staggered into the twentieth century and by the end found itself in what was to become the tiniest ghetto of minority tastes and obsolescent arts, outclassed even by jazz, opera and classical ballet. The arrival of new technologies that gave rise to film and recorded music pushed it even further into the margins.
Read the rest of my article at The Fortnightly Review.
Just a reminder that in Weeks 7 & 8 (27/2/13 and 6/3/13) we’ll be listening to and discussing work in progress on your pamphlets.
Please make sure you’ve posted a section of your work (or as much as you’ve done so far) on your individual blogs so that everyone has had a chance to read it in advance.
Despite praise and recommendations from leading literary figures, no publisher would accept Brautigan’s manuscript for Trout Fishing in America. James Laughlin at New Directions passed it to G. P. Putnam’s Sons, who forwarded it to Dell/Delta who sent the manuscript back to G. P. Putnam’s Sons, who said they would be happy to consider it for publication, but rejected the manuscript in August 1963. Donald Allen then sent the manuscript to Coward-McCann who rejected the manuscript.
Source: Brautigan.net
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Source: Smell of Books.
If you fancy a ten-week paid internship in Digital Sales, Editorial or Communications with Penguin publishing, this summer 2013, then click below for more details. The deadline is 15 February.
Thanks to LSM Alumni blog for this.
New issues of B S Johnson due this February from Picador.
Also, care of Jonathan, leaked news of a forthcoming dvd of B S Johnson goodies!
We can’t guarantee romance here on the MA in Creative Writing at Lincoln, but it certainly worked for these two: Melanie Montano (USA) and Dan Lavey (UK), who are pictured at their graduation this week.
Congratulations to both of them!
This is is at everywritersresource.