Archive for 'Books'
“Ladies in Hades,” “I Battled a Giant Otter,” and Other Classic Pulp Covers
Thanks to Patrick for sending this one our way.
Full StoryInstructors, Instigators, Professors, Prophets: Request an Exam Copy of the New Penguin Poetry: A Pocket Anthology
If you teach a course in poetry, you may request an exam copy of the latest edition of Penguin’s Poetry: A Pocket Anthology.
Full Story“Ful longe were his legos and ful len”: Lego Poets!
We’ve honored our rock stars with Legos (remember Lego Metallica?), so now it’s time for the poets. Thanks to E-Verser Cynthia for sending this in.
Full Story“What Kittens Teach Us About Derivatives”: Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator
I’ll admit it: I’m a fan of best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell, who inscribed a copy of Outliers to me (as an “outlier”) that he gave to my wife to deliver to me. His books are addictive and smart, very quick reads. He is a master at slicing Gordian Knots that bind up so many issues in our society. As prolific as he may be, he can’t crank them out quickly enough for me, which is why I’m delighted to come across the Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator website. Thanks to Sam Tanenhaus for mentioning it. Click on “Slurp” below to visit the site.
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“The Riveting 32 Pages of the Life of Paris Hilton”: Awful Library Books
Over a quarter of a million new book titles were published last year in the US alone. How many of these are wonderful gems? It’s difficult to know, but word-of-mouth and the insights of a handful of talented critics will preserve a few of them. But the rest? Well, there are some doozies in there. Let’s have a look at a few, courtesy of Awful Library Books. Thanks to E-Verser Bones for sending this one in.
Full StoryJon Stone, Kirsten Irving, and Dr. Fulminare’s Questionable Arts Proudly Present Sidekick Books
Daring and dashing young English poet Jon Stone publishes a series of delightful small anthologies featuring the finest in new British poetry, including Coin Opera, “a micro-anthology of short poems inspired by computer games, from Bride of Pinbot to Bubble Bobble, Space Invaders to Street Fighter II, Paradroid to Portal.”
Full StoryBooks Read or Reread in 2010
As usual, I didn’t get to a fraction of the books I’d hoped to read this year. I can always hope that next year I’ll find a bit more time to spend in my favorite chair with examples of that sad, antique technology that is so swiftly evaporating from our lives. In no order, here are the books I managed to get to this year.
Full StoryRelease Party for Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation at A Public Space
Watch a short video featuring clips for Timothy Donnelly’s book launch party in Brooklyn.
Full StoryConfessions of a Book Fiend
Some call it the gentle madness. Others bibliomania. Some call it chronic bookishness. I’m a book worm, and I know some of you are too. Here’s a fun look at this often crippling problem.
Full StoryBauman “Really” Rare Books?
On the back page of their latest issue, the guys over at Esquire (my favorite magazine) offer this light-hearted send-up of the famous full-page Bauman Rare Books New York Times ads. Thanks! We’re flattered, fellas. Really.
Full Story“Don’t Drink and Write at the Same Time”: Richard Ford’s Top Ten Tips for Writers, Courtesy of the National Post
The tough-guy author of The Sportswriter and Independence Day dispenses some writerly wisdom.
Full StoryTop Five Social Networking Websites for Book Nerds
Some might be tempted to blame the internet for the decline of book culture, but we here at E-Verse believe that it actually helps readers find like-minded communities and hard-to-find books. Bethany runs us through a few of the best sites devoted to readers.
Full StoryFlying Off the Screen: Observations from the Golden Age of the American Video Game Arcade
In the fall of 2007 I posted this light-hearted memoir of my youth misspent in video game arcades, from the book Gamers. I came across it recently and reread it for the first time since the book was published. I thought I’d share it again for readers new to the site.
Full Story“50 Book Spoilers in 4 Minutes” by Professional Spoilers the Fine Brothers
OK, E-Versers, be warned. You’ve probably read all of these books, but in case you haven’t the plot will be revealed in under three seconds (per book).
Full StoryErnest Hilbert interviews novelist Jennifer Egan about her book Look at Me
Jennifer Egan’s new book A Visit from the Goon Squad is reviewed on the cover of this week’s New York Times Book Review. Here’s an interview I conducted with Ms. Egan back in 2002 on her best-selling novel Look at Me. Ernest Hilbert: What are your principal influences? Jennifer Egan: That’s such a hard question [...]
Full StoryPriceless John Berryman Interview Footage
This interview took place on October 8, 1970. On January 7, 1972, John Berryman jumped from the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was 57. ErnieErnest Hilbert is founder of E-Verse Radio.Website – Twitter – Facebook – More Posts
Full StoryHelen Vendler and Jim Cuno discuss poet Robert Lowell
Helen Vendler, Harvard University, spoke briefly with Art Institute director Jim Cuno about Modernist poetry before her lecture Robert Lowell and the Modern Legacy on October 22, 2009. Click here to listen to Ms. Vendler’s lecture. ErnieErnest Hilbert is founder of E-Verse Radio.Website – Twitter – Facebook – More Posts
Full Story“How a Book is Made”: 1947 video from Encyclopedia Britannica
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Full StoryLooking for some good short fiction? Look no more!
I was out in Los Angeles last weekend to give a reading with Tim Green at the Ruskin Arts Club. While there, I hit a few classic LA spots, like the Rainbow Room and Book Soup, both on Sunset Strip. While there, I looked for something to read on my return flight. At random, my [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert with Jill Alexander Essbaum at West Chester Poets House
West Chester Poets House Presents Ernest Hilbert with Jill Alexander Essbaum Wednesday, March 24th 823 S. High Street Poets House, West Chester University West Chester, PA 19383 610-436-3235 poetry@wcupa.edu FREE “Few poets’ roots go deeper than the Romantics; Jill Alexander Essbaum’s reach all the way to the Elizabethans. In her Harlot one hears Herbert and [...]
Full StoryE-Verse Top 100 Cool Novels #78: A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway, 1929
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway, 1929. It is very possible that Ernest Hemingway’s true métier was the short story, a form in which he excelled. In fact, In Our Time went some way toward creating the type of short story that would dominate American magazines for decades to follow. He was a master of [...]
Full StoryE-Verse Presents the Most Beautiful Bookstore in the World: Buenos Aires’s Librería El Ateneo Grand Splendid
What would Argentinian visionary author Jorge Luis Borges have made of a concert hall and theater transformed into a glamorous bookstore? And what a place to do a reading. Imagine reading from that proscenium! For more on this bookstore, click here. ErnieErnest Hilbert is founder of E-Verse Radio.Website – Twitter – Facebook – More Posts
Full StoryE-Verse Top 100 Cool Novels #79: Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, 1922
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis, 1922. It’s rare that a novel or one of its characters enters everyday language. Most people can identify Captain Ahab or Hester Prynne, and their circumstances or personalities may be summoned to make a point about obsession or hypocrisy. But only rarely does a novel get right to the heart of a [...]
Full StoryE-Verse Top 100 Cool Novels #80: A Fan’s Notes, Frederick Exley, 1968
E-Verse Top 100 Cool Novels #80: A Fan’s Notes, Frederick Exley, 1968. This fictional memoir is as breathless and manic as its author surely was when couch-surfing his way across Eisenhower’s America, steadfastly refusing to grow up, always lurking in the shadow of his beloved local sports-hero father, who died at 40. Fred, Ex, Exley, [...]
Full StoryTop Five Books Recently Published by Dead Authors
5. This is Walter by David Foster Wallace 4. Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut 3. The Suicide Run by William Styron 2. My Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John Updike 1. The Original of Laura, by Vladimir Nabokov. Sure, he declined to publish it during his lifetime, but hey, he’d wanted Lolita [...]
Full StoryBooks Read or Reread for Reasons of Nostalgia by Ernest Hilbert in 2009
Here’s my roundup of books read in the last year. It should be immediately apparent that I have no organizational principle whatsoever. I simply grab whatever catches my eye and read it. This is most immature and unbecoming, I know, but I’ve found that if I don’t read what I like it becomes a chore [...]
Full Story“A voucher system based on mutual fear”: Daniel Nester Interviewed at Bookslut
“When I think about all the effort I put into writing poems, being a poet, reading contemporary poetry, it just makes me sick. These days, if I read a poem now of a certain kind—one that avoids feeling, a speaker, or making any connection with the reader, of which there are many—I feel sick. I [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert’s Aim Your Arrows at the Sun Makes at Least One Annual Reading List
I was delighted to find myself included in this excellent list of books read in 2009 by the host of the blog withhiddennoise.com. Scan the list. I’ll post my list of books read in 2009 later this week. ErnieErnest Hilbert is founder of E-Verse Radio.Website – Twitter – Facebook – More Posts
Full StoryCopies of Ernest Hilbert’s Aim Your Arrows at the Sun Still Available
I’ve been told that some readers did not understand how to order my limited edition chapbook Aim Your Arrows at the Sun. I understand entirely. It is not a commercially published book, so though it will appear in independent bookstores in select cities and from the press’s website it will not be available on Amazon [...]
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