Ravi Mangla's Blog, page 12
April 27, 2015
April 19, 2015
A CONVERSATION WITH STANLEY ELKIN AND WILLIAM H. GASS
Gass: I’ve always been interested in writing as writing. My
interest in the various forms is dominated by an interest in style as such. But
I am also very much interested in the interaction of genre, in types and forms
and things of that sort. That’s why I’ve done one type of thing once, so far; I’ve
been working on the other novel, The Tunnel, for a long time, but I haven’t got
it finished. One novel, one book of short stories, one collection of essays,
this blue thing, children’s stories called Nail Soup—
Elkin: Can a child read Nail Soup?
Gass: No: better not.
(The Iowa Review, 1976)
April 13, 2015
Chiharu Shiota
Chiharu Shiota,
Dialogue from DNA
March 28, 2015
“The Limits of Diversity” by Jennifer Pan
“While in one sense the propensity in mainstream discourse to describe racial conflict with words like “tolerance” and “hate”—rather than “power” or “oppression”—has made it possible for greater numbers of people to conceive of how racism affects individuals on a psychological level, a more unsettling consequence of this turn has been that diversity has largely replaced equality as the ultimate goal for many educational and workplace settings, including the book publishing world.”
- “The Limits of Diversity” by Jennifer Pan at The Margins
March 24, 2015
Literary Grab Bags
I’m moving and need to get rid of some of the chapbooks/literary journals on my bookshelf. First three people to email with their name/address (at rhm0165@gmail.com) get a free grab bag of literary oddments. You’ll be doing me a big favor.
Update: All gone!
March 16, 2015
Buffalo Almanack / Lockjaw Magazine
Buffalo Almanack interviewed me for their new issue. Read the full interview here.
I contributed a short section to Lockjaw Magazine’s ongoing Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story. It’s a very cool project. I recommend starting from the beginning.
March 13, 2015
“Greenly, Everett and Marion, 1878-1903″ at Booth
My short short story “Greenly, Everett and Marion, 1878-1903 (from The Complete and Unabridged History of North American Aviation)” is available to read at Booth Journal.
March 10, 2015
March 5, 2015
February 26, 2015
Lia Purpura
"The most powerful thing one can teach is that art takes time. It takes a long time to develop a relationship with the practice and the work and to come to understand the language that exists between you and your work, to clarify why something feels new or doesn’t, what it actually feels like to work your way into a language for something that previously didn’t offer itself in language. It’s so much less about “revising” than it is about “learning how to work.” You have to love this kind of work to write. That sounds obvious, but I’ve often wanted to ask people, students, other writers ‘do you love (i.e. want to wrangle with) what you do? Do you want to be doing this?’”
