A seasonally updated list of inspiring creations.
* NOVEL
Rabih Alameddine's I, the Divine and The Hakawati.
Yiyun Li's The Vagrants
* SHORT STORIES & ESSAYS
"Concerning the Bodyguard" by Donald Barthelme.
"Gold Mine" by Claire Vaye Watkins.
"Lost & Found" by Colson Whitehead.
"Lieland" by Etgar Keret and The Nimrod Flipout collection.
Peter Taylor's "Porte Cochere."
Carly Sachs "Tender."
* VISUAL INSPIRATION
Art21, a PBS series.
LESSONS TO LEARN
***Bookworm. Hear interviews on books from nearly every author of the modern age.
*** Paris Review Interviews. Authors and poets since the 1950s reply.
*** George Orwell's Why I Write
*** Evan Hughes write up on Eugenides' latest and the subtext of one camp of the literary ambitious (David Foster Wallace, Mary Karr, Franzen, etc.).
*** Review of Frank Rose's The Art of Immersion - stories now coming to life in every format imaginable.
*** Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize Speech on language
*** The New Yorker Archives Fiction Podcast
OPPORTUNITIES
* Call for Pitches at Radio Ambulante
