(New year catch-up post, five of five.) About three years ago, a completely amazing review of Brookland was published in the New York Review of Books. It was more than just a review, really; it was a 3,500-word consideration of both Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron. The article was originally password-protected on the [...]
(New year catch-up post, three of five.) You know this already, of course, if you’re already a fan of Emily Barton on Facebook. It’s a beautiful redesign by Sonnet Media. (Recent clients also include Richard Eoin Nash, among many others.) Bud Parr (Chekhov’s Mistress, etc.) did a fantastic job!
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1) From the A.P.: “Nobel literature head: US too insular to compete,” Malin Rising and Hillel Italie, 30 September 2008: archived, as of this writing, here and here. (A side note: it’s a little frightening how easy it is to find commentary on this article, but how difficult it is to find a simple, complete, [...]
(Catch-up post, five of five.) Emily is reading next Wednesday, 25 March, at Amherst Books. (Rescheduled from the reading Emily had to cancel in February 2008.) Sponsored by the Amherst College Creative Writing Center; set up by Alex. Also: Granta asked a number of writers to “reflect upon John Updike’s contribution to literature”; Emily’s note [...]
(Catch-up post, three of five.) The Chautauqua Institution this summer: Week Four: The Ethical Frontiers of Science (July 14–18): Write What You Don’t Know: Using Research to Enliven Your Writing: Though many of us have received the advice to “write what you know,” sometimes writing exclusively about our own experiences can feel limiting. Researching topics [...]
The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Second Edition, by Christopher James: p. 171 (in Chapter 7: The Cyanotype Process): Figure 7–18: Emily Barton, Self Portrait, 1987—toned cyanotype. I.e., Emily’s first published photograph. Cool!
Emily’s essay “Eli Miller’s Seltzer Delivery Service,” which is in the Brooklyn Was Mine anthology, being not just about our favorite, and greatly missed, borough, but also about Yiddishkeit—and a little bit about our shared obsessiveness with doing what we can to make our home more green—has also been published at Nextbook.
Emily’s contributor copies of Brooklyn Was Mine arrived. It’s such a beautiful book! And I had no idea where the title came from, but there it is, under our boot-soles, in the book’s epigraph: What is it then between us? What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us? Whatever it [...]
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007: in “Best American First Sentences of Novels Published in 2006″ (p. 6, in the Best American Front Section): in fantastic company (Charles D’Ambrosio, Colson Whitehead, et al.): Brookland. Awesome!
Are you taking an educational holiday at the Chautauqua Institution this week (which, thematically—as you’d presumably know, if you’re there—happens to be Week Four: 21st Century Cities)? Are you wondering: What shall I do tomorrow afternoon, after the lecture on a religious theme, and before the evening’s performance by the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra? Shall I [...]
My whip-smart and knockout beautiful wife and I (it’s true, it’s marvelous, we got married, did you see the thing in the Styles section?) will be reading together for a special honeymooners edition of the One Story reading series on Friday, January 12, at around seven or so; get there a little early for the [...]