By Jamie Malanowski The New Yorker, September 16 , 1996P. 44 Talk story about naming football teams after literary subjects....The literary team name that best conjures up the spirit of the city these days, however, comes from Allen Ginsberg: let's hear it for the New York Howl.
The New Yorker, September 16 , 1996P. 44 Talk story about naming football teams after literary subjects....The literary team name that best conjures up the spirit of the city these days, however, comes from Allen Ginsberg: let's hear it for the New York Howl.
I had the distinct feeling that I had arrived late in the day, after the literary teams had all been chosen.
Though there is a literary football team in America — Poe's Baltimore Ravens — it's hard to imagine the Patriots and the Seahawks squaring off in, say, the Moby-Dick Bowl.
Though there is a literary football team in America Poe's Baltimore Ravens it's hard to imagine the Patriots and the Seahawks squaring off in, say, the Moby-Dick Bowl.
On this literary fantasy baseball team, Thoreau is in right field and Moby-Dick is up to bat.
Whereas before that a lone woman might be allowed on the so-called men's team, literary women began achieving critical mass and becoming more than anomalies.
Then again, as one of the better tennis-playing literary men, Randall Jarrell (team captain at Vanderbilt in the 1930s) once observed, "the really damned not only like Hell, they feel loyal to it".
So have the editor, the commissioning editor, the cover designer, the copy-editor, the proofreader, the illustrator, the publicist, the literary agent, marketing team, the person who formats it for your e-reader.
Evolutionary psychologists and literary scholars are teaming up to explore narrative's Darwinian origins.
Taylor De Cordoba, the space she owns with her husband, Alex De Cordoba, in Los Angeles's Culver City gallery district not only shows emerging artists in an atypically cozy environment, but also hosts food-and-flower-festooned events like trunk shows for fashion-designer friends and Eating Our Words, a series teaming literary readings with artisanal tastings.
