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To get us ready for the weekend parties, here's T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, an anthem for the socially anxious everywhere. You can find it in print in Selected Poems by T. S. Eliot. Eliot began writing the poem in 1910 and it was first published in 1915 in … Continue reading Poem of the Day: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Wislawa Szymborska Bookseller Dublina Moulik recommends today's poem for our continued celebration of National Poetry Month, Miracle Fair by Krakow-based poet Wislawa Szymborska. If you enjoy this one, take a look at Szymborska's collections Monologue of a Dog; Here; and her Poems: New and Collected. ~ Miracle Fair Commonplace miracle: that so many commonplace miracles … Continue reading Poem of the Day: Miracle Fair
(Brian Contine is working through Melville House’s novella series. He’ll be reviewing them all here. This is the second review in the series.) ~ Inside the cover flap of Melville House’s printing of Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener you’ll see the statement, “Academics hail it as the beginning of Modernism…” These academics are as bold … Continue reading Review: Bartleby the Scrivener
Frank O'Hara We have bookseller Clint Carroll to thank for today's poem in celebration of National Poetry Month, Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) by Frank O'Hara. Throughout his life, O'Hara worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, writing poems on his lunch break and associating with such painters as Jackson Pollack, … Continue reading Poem of the Day: Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)
Today's poem in honor of National Poetry Month comes recommended by BookPeople bookseller Kester Smith: Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by poet, novelist and nonfiction writer Wendell Berry. If you enjoy this one, take a look at some of his collections Given; Leavings; The Mad Farmer Poems; and Window Poems. ~ Manifesto: The Mad … Continue reading Poem of the Day – Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Today's poem in honor of National Poetry Month comes from BookPeople bookseller Deblina Moulik: A Color of the Sky by Tony Hoagland. If you like what you read, check out Hoagland's latest collection, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems. ~ A Color of the Sky Windy today and I feel less than brilliant, … Continue reading Poem of the Day: A Color of the Sky by Tony Hoagland
In one sense, reading The Pale King is a sad experience. It is an unfinished work and it feels unfinished, and not in the postmodern way that a lot of Wallace’s fiction feels unfinished, but in the sense that you can see what Wallace was trying to do, but also wasn’t finished doing. You find … Continue reading Review: The Pale King
What? Friday already? Sweet! What are you doing this weekend? Want to meet Tabatha Coffey AND Sarah Vowell all in one day? Then come on down to the store tomorrow, because that's what we've got going on. Here's what went on in the book world this week: ~The Boston Globe had this editorial regarding Amazon's … Continue reading As The Book World Turns
April is National Poetry Month, and in honor of this month-long celebration of verse, we'll be scouring the Poetry section here at BookPeople to bring you (roughly) thirty of our favorite poems in thirty days. We'll also have an essay on why poetry is relevant from poet Joni Wallace, coverage of one of Austin's slam … Continue reading It’s National Poetry Month!
Pike, by Benjamin Whitmer, which will be discussed by The Hard Word Book Club on Wednesday, March 30, 7pmWith its working class misfits with dark pasts fighting darker corruption, Benjamin Whitmer's new mystery Pike is quite possibly the purist definition of modern hard boiled fiction. His title hero has a hard past, mainly of his … Continue reading 5 Questions With Novelist Benjamin Whitmer
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