This monthly gathering at the Brooklyn underground music venue Goodbye Blue Monday offers local songwriters a chance to compose and perform an original song inspired by various texts (in the past, these have included works by Frank Herbert and Raymond Ca

Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the February 17th issue include: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander. Knopf, 2012. Print length:

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” the title story of Nathan Englander’s new collection, deliberately alludes to Raymond Carver’s classic tale “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” But while Englander’s narrative borrows Carver’s

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander, Alfred A. Knopf, 207 pages, $27.95 Stephen Finucan Special to the Star In Raymond Carver’s 1981 story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” two couples spend an afternoon aroun

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander, Alfred A. Knopf, 207 pages, $27.95 ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST Nathan Englander seems to have hit the main vein in the literati blurb mine with his much anticipated second collection of s

It has been nearly 13 years since the publication of Nathan Englander’s brilliant debut, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, an ambitious story collection written by a twentysomething Jewish writer raised in a religious community in suburban New York. Th

What is it like to tackle your first piece of creative writing – then present it to a group of writers you barely know? The Post's Richard McComb recalls his recent literary debut. This much is clear: there is no point in attending an evening class for b

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Alumnus Christopher Boucher G'02 will read from ‘How to Keep your Volkswagen Alive’ The Spring 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue on March 7 with Christopher Boucher G’02, author of the novel “How to Keep your Volkswagen Alive” (Melville Ho

Gosh, it's a slow day today. As a result : Guys, you won't believe this, but I'm from the future and I've seen what's in store for the Heat. I went a few months into the future, July, actually, and I came back to let you all know that we have a bright fu

Critics' accusations to the contrary, there's really nothing unrealistic about John Barth. Granted only his first two novels -- The Floating Opera and The End of the Road -- were considered "realist" (and those both date all the way back to the '50s), an

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One of the recent favorite literary lights of San Francisco’s exploding spoken-word culture, Ian’s stories are insightful, emotional and poetic – a perfect blend of Richard Brautigan and Raymond Carver. His odes are gathered in the finest of letterpress,

"Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it."

Untitled #8906, Todd Hido, 2009. Courtesy of the Artist and Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco. The full-color prints by the California-based photographer Todd Hido at Stephen Wirtz Gallery depict decaying and deteriorating suburban developments and th

"A man who believes that he can do everything, let him dig a grave and bury himself." "Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it."

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” the title story of Nathan Englander’s new collection, deliberately alludes to Raymond Carver’s classic tale “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” But while Mr. Englander’s narrative borrows Carv

In this insightful response to Anis Shivani’s “Can Creative Writing Be Taught? Therapy for the Disaffected Masses,” Karen Babine notes: “the main issue that Shivani overlooks—whether intentional or not, in his purpose to incite as much reaction as possib

The prize, for the "the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the last 12 months", is a year's supply of potted shrimp, courtesy of the Fish Society. The award was created by reviews website The Omnivore to raise the profile of professional c