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The Happy Hypocrite

‘I think: Protect me from people who want to protect me; but more, save me from people who know what upsets others.’ – Lynne Tillman

 

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Issue 6 of The Happy Hypocrite – Freedom  –   is published by Book Works, in an edition of 1,000. Contributors include Gregg Bordowitz, Paul Chan, Gabriel Coxhead, Lydia Davis, Yasmine El Rashidi, Chloé Cooper Jones, James Jennings, Allison Katz, Robin Coste Lewis, the late Craig Owens, Sarah Resnick, Ranbir Singh Sidhu, Abdellah Taïa, an interview between Lynne Tillman and Thomas Keenan, a cover by Susan Hiller, and archival material from Paranoids Anonymous Newsletter.

 

The 2013 Poetry Celebration for Kathleen Raine

The 2013 Poetry Celebration for Kathleen Raine
Girton College, Cambridge
12 October
Venue 
The Stanley Library and Old Hall, Girton College
Doors open 6pm
Readings at 6.45pm
Concludes 8.30pm
Admission
£8 or £6 Members / Concessions (includes refreshments)
Readings from: Sebastian Barker, Hilary Davies, Jane Draycott, Malcolm Guite, James Harpur, Grevel Lindop, Clive Wilmer

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Robert Macfarlane on the Booker Shortlist

Here is Rob Macfarlane announcing the shortlist, and quoted in The Guardian declaring it  ‘a shortlist that shows the English language novel to be a form of world literature. It is a shortlist that crosses continents, joins countries and spans the centuries.’ The six novels were ‘all about the strange ways people are brought together and the painful ways in which they are held apart’.

 

 

marketing men’s and women’s fiction

‘If The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, had been written by a woman yet still had the same title and wedding ring on its cover, would it have received a great deal of serious literary attention? Or would this novel (which I loved) have been relegated to “Women’s Fiction,” that close-quartered lower shelf where books emphasizing relationships and the interior lives of women are often relegated?’  Read more of Meg Wolitzer’s article on ‘the rules of literary fiction fiction for men and women’

 

 

 

Dear World & Everyone In It: poetry reading on 6th Sept

dear-world-everyone-in-it-new-poetry-in-the-uk-194x300Five poets whose work appears in Dear World & Everyone In It: New Poetry in the UK (Bloodaxe, 2013) – Ágnes Lehóczky, Éireann Lorsung, Sandeep Parmar, Eileen Pun and Marcus Slease – are joined by UK editor/poet Nathan Hamilton, and US editor/poet James Cihlar, for a reading and discussion of literary migration, cross-pollination, belonging and alienation at the British Library’s Eccles Centre on 6th Sept.

The Kills by Richard House

One of the least expected novels to be included in the 2013 Booker Prize longlist is Richard House’s The Kills, not least because of its multi-media dimension.  Like the Best of Granta, it’s longlist that smuggles in Americans as best it can. House, now teaching at Birmingham University, lived in Chicago for many years and was a founder member of the art-collective, HAHA. He’s also editor of a digital magazine called Fat Boy Review.

 

 

 

 

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