By David Blomenberg Joe Hall’s second book of poetry, The Devotional Poems, is recently out from Black Ocean. While he was in the beginning stages of his book tour, I got a chance to ask him a few questions about it. David Blomenberg: Congratulations on the second book! Tell me about the tour you’ve got … Continue reading When I Finish Praying: A Conversation with Joe Hall
By David Blomenberg, Reviews Editor There’s a certain renegade quality to the publishing of this book that resonates not only with the disposition of the activist poet it introduces to the English-reading public, but also chimes with Russia itself, the country whose health—both political and artistic—is always at the heart of Medvedev’s work. There’s a … Continue reading The Importance of Activist Authors–It’s No Good by Kirill Medvedev
By David Blomenberg, Reviews Editor Moving from a collection of various poems to a book manuscript is a strange, intuitive, almost spooky process. What brings a collection together? Recently I sat down with poet A. E. Watkins to talk with him about the genesis and metamorphosis of the manuscript of his first book, Dear, Companion, … Continue reading A Conversation with Poet A. E. Watkins: The Metamorphosis of a Manuscript
By David Blomenberg, Reviews Editor One of the many things I look forward to toward the end of every year is the latest volume of Dalkey Archive’s Best European Fiction, now in its fourth year. Each November, I start looking for the notices and by December, the Alexandar Hemon-edited volume is usually in my hot … Continue reading What I’m Reading: Best European Fiction 2013
By David Blomenberg, Reviews Editor This just in: Alice Notley, whose recent book was reviewed on Sycamore blog (see link here), unveiled a portion of a new work, as yet unpublished, titled For the Ride, at a reading in San Francisco last month. You can see the video below:
By David Blomenberg, Reviews Editor Hello all! I hope all have been having a wonderful holiday season so far. It’s almost the end of the year, which brings many of us to thoughts of new beginnings, new resolutions, and new projects. What can be greatly inspiring to many writers is to read what other writers … Continue reading Some New Reading on Writing on Writing!
By David Blomenberg, Reviews Editor While Tabucchi, winner of the Prix Medicis for foreign literature as well as the Italian PEN prize, isn’t an author that claims much recognition in the U. S., he’s got quite a catalogue of works. Only a handful have been translated into English, something Archipelago Books has been trying to remedy … Continue reading What I’m Reading: The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico by Antonio Tabucchi
By David Blomenberg, Reviews Editor Joshua Cohen–an innovative and prolific writer with five books released at the still-green age of 32–has a fascinating interview out on The Millions this week that’s well worth checking out, here. His Witz was the genesis (and end) of many a To-Be-Read booklist on its release back in 2010. His … Continue reading What I’m Reading: Joshua Cohen on the Internet Age
By David Blomenberg, Reviews Editor I keep finding things I thought I’d lost long ago. There are some really wonderful books coming out this season, including one by none other than James Tadd Adcox, the editor of Artifice. We have fond memories of him during his days as Sycamore Review’s Fiction Editor. His debut book, … Continue reading The Map of the System of Human Knowledge
by David Blomenberg, Sycamore Review Contributor My strange reading coincidences continue. Wayne Miller’s wonderful poetry collection The City, Our City (a review of which appears in our most recent print issue) was part of an uncanny string of books I was reading that had to do with the formation and destruction of cities. The very next … Continue reading Alice Notley’s Ghouls: Reclaiming Myth
