• Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “The General and His Little Panda Paws”, previously published by MiPOesias, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––

  • W.F. Lantry and Robert Raymer in Istanbul Literary Review

    – New works by W.F. Lantry and Robert Raymer are now featured in the current edition of Istanbul Literary Review (Issue #20). Read Bill’s three poems (“Miranda”, “Deirdre”, and “Green Tara”) and the short story “Lake Mirror” as well as Robert’s story…

  • Mani Rao reads | 17 June 2011

    Reading on June 17 Toto Funds the Arts is delighted to invite you to a reading by poet and author Mani Rao of her radical, literary translation of the Bhagavad Gita She will be in conversation with Arshia Sattar Venue:…

  • Todd Swift and Greg Santos read | 22 June 2011

    [Click image to enlarge] – – Todd Swift’s poems were published in issue #2 , issue #3 and issue #11 of Cha. Greg Santos’s poetry was published in issue #10 of Cha. – –

  • Alistair Noon’s "Hill with Bunker and Flak Tower"

    – You can now read Alistair Noon’s poem “Hill with Bunker and Flak Tower” on the Longbarrow Press website. The poem, first published in Gists and Piths, will be included in Alistair’s forthcoming pamphlet Swamp Area (revised and expanded from…

  • J.A. Tyler in >kill author

    J.A. Tyler’s “[ the fourth house /// rebuilt ]” is now published in >kill author. Read the piece here. You can also listen to Tyler’s reading of the work (it is very good). – – J.A. Tyler’s fiction was published…

  • Sensuality in Thomas Malthus’s An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)

    – “The superiority of intellectual to sensual pleasures consists rather in their filling up more time, in their having a larger range, and in their being less liable to satiety, than in their being more real and essential.” “Intemperance in…

  • About parrots – “Him choke from prejudice”

    –– See this post about a famous parrot in the literary world. In Paul West’s Lord Byron’s Doctor (1989), J. W. Polidori writes, ‘He [Byron] never actually said Pretty Polly, but it was in his eye, all right, and I suppose I was a…

  • Recollection 22 – Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot

    ,  Here are some quotes from Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot which I found particularly interesting. Isn’t the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment’s desolate attic? p. 4 When I was a…

  • How many romantic kisses are there in the entire body of Virginia Woolf’s work?

    The Kiss (1897-8) by Munch  Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours, answers in a Guardian article: [Virginia Woolf] wrote not at all about sex. Her entire body of work contains two romantic kisses – one in The Voyage Out, another…