Hello again!
We know there are plenty of important things in the news right now that we could, and maybe should, discuss. Uncertainty abounds, job insecurity is rampant, our healthcare system is struggling to keep up... the list goes on. But that's not what we're here for. We're here to help connect you with literature. We're here to remind you that we will always have stories to bring us together, that books will always be a dynamic, positive force in the world, and that the arts are continuing to find a way. All of which is cause for celebration.
Below, you'll find a literary mystery, good news about a new U.S. coin, plans for next Saturday night, a celebration of one of our favorite local publishers, and a few other gems we stumbled across this week.
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Litquake Book Recs In which we convince one of our favorite writers to recommend a must-read book... Forrest Gander recommends The Swank Hotel by Lucy Corin.
"Lucy Corin’s breathless pentathlon of a novel, The Swank Hotel, is a tour-de-force of stylistic panache, its formal innovations—at both the sentence and the chapter level—perfectly suited to its investigation of marginal mental health, identity, and our dialogue with others/otherness."
Thanks, Forrest!
You can buy Forrest Gander's latest poetry collection Twice Alive here (or at your local bookstore).
You can find out more about Forrest here. |
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Litquake Weekly Highlighting literary news, upcoming events, and whatever else we're looking at...
"Listen in on a live-streamed performance from an ensemble, co-led by clarinetist/composer Beth Custer and guitarist David James." San Francisco book and record store Bird & Beckett is hosting weekly shows • Datebook SF
“It arrived at the height of the pandemic, in a brown envelope with no return address... Inside the envelope was a small, stapled book—a pamphlet, really—titled Foodie or The Capitalist Monsoon that is Mississippi..." A pseudonymous author leads one of our favorite book reviewers on a wild goose chase • The New Yorker
"A new quarter featuring legendary poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou and other trailblazing American women has officially started shipping to banks..." Maya Angelou is the first Black woman on a U.S. quarter • NPR
"It is meant to help them in their task of making it as easy as possible for readers to understand the Bills that we produce." Did you know that the UK has a 90+ page guidebook to writing intelligible legislation? • The New Inquiry
"The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses has announced that Nomadic Press... is the winner of the inaugural $10,000 Constellation Award." Congratulations to Oakland's own Nomadic Press • Publishers Weekly |
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