Brooklyn Writers Foundry

Now accepting applications. Apply here: sjny.edu/brooklyn/acade…

This brilliant essay by Foundry faculty @egabbert began here as a Master Lecture on John Berger…

More evidence of the crisis that is mainstream publishing. Don't bet on a lame horse, join us instead.

Going to be a brilliant evening of literary conversation @stjoesny w/ @ANNELAMOTT!

Real-time image of Panamerica staff at work today:

"It might be good to have Shelly come over on Sunday. Somebody to talk to. Maybe it’ll be cool enough to burn some cedar. That’s how she’d like to tell her stories. Over flaming purple heartwood." --Lee Clay Johnson's dark and mesmerizing BLOODLINE is out April 21st. Get your copy here: countyhighway.com/panamerica/blo…

Martin Mull "could do everything: paint, write, act, draw, and play guitar, all wonderfully well. I miss him. But I'm grateful to have these stories to remind me what a clever bastard he was." -Eric Idle, from the forward of the late Martin Mull's LIFE SENTENCES, out this April Fools Day. Link to pre-order, below.

Bloodline has been spotted at the Winter Institute galley room, where it is both a galley room and rep pick with @ConsortiumBooks . If you're at WI, come pick up an advance copy of Lee Clay Johnson's dark and brilliant new novel, out April 21st.

An award-winning novelist who grew up in Tennessee in a family of bluegrass musicians, has been instrumental in growing #SJNY’s @writersfoundry. Read SJNY’S Storyteller: Lee Clay Johnson in the latest edition of the #SJNY magazine ow.ly/GfE550YflQo

A good reason to give yourself to literature…

You cannot understand how a piece of writing works—structurally, spatially, temporally, linguistically—by reading on your phone (or on a laptop). You can’t see patterns, how one sentence or section relates to another. It’s a disaster for students to learn this way.

Lee Clay Johnson’s second novel, BLOODLINE, is very, very good. Sharply-drawn characters, spectacular prose—brutal and beautiful. Out April 21st.

If you want to read while you lunch at SoHo’s fashionable (and delicious!) Bar Pitti, there is only one option — America’s Only Newspaper. Subscribe today, and think country, even when you’re stuck in the city. countyhighway.com/subscribe

@BretVDB Wow, yes.

C.S. Lewis on modern poetry in An Experiment in Criticism: “To read the old poetry involved learning a slightly different language; to read the new involves the unmaking of your mind, the abandonment of all the logical and narrative connections which you use in reading prose or in conversation. You must achieve a trance-like condition in which images, associations, and sounds operate without these. Thus the common ground between poetry and any other use of words is reduced almost to zero. In that way poetry is now more quintessentially poetical than ever before; ‘purer’ in the negative sense. It not only does (like all good poetry) what prose can’t do: it deliberately refrains from doing anything that prose can do.”

TOM MCGUANE? Let's go!

Excited to host @egabbert next month for a Master Lecture titled “ Time & the Essay.”

Great book, great publisher @nyrbclassics, great review, great intro @amandafortini—just all kinds of greatness…

Today @stjoesny⁩ Brooklyn Campus.

“When I sit down to work, I’m just trying to get one little thing right. So I suppose in that regard I do consider it a practice. But I don’t have more far-reaching goals in mind at all. Just, let’s get this little thing right.” —Deborah Eisenberg buff.ly/EhS6XaF

Awesome…