We’re sad to report that Tatjana Soli will be unable to join us for Litfest this year. We hope to have her at SMU sometime in the future.
Watch this blog for an update on Friday’s schedule.
Posts from the “Litfest Author News” Category
Looking for a read on this lazy Sunday? Check out this article on the writing journey featuring LitFest author Debra Spark: Debra Spark for ‘The Quivering Pen’
Register to see Debra Spark do a reading March 21st at SMU LitFest by clicking on our Schedule & Registration link to the left.
Enjoy!
Hello LitFesters! Some of you may know that last night at SMU’s Art Spiegelman lecture we learned all about the connection between images and words. For us LitFesters we know that images can be formed within our heads as we read the words of novels and poems. Here’s a collection of some posted poems by Matthew Olzmann brimming with verbal imagery. Let’s see what your brain will conjure up!
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Wondering about newest LitFest author Gabrielle Calvocoressi? Well get to know her as she answers a few questions for Bomblog and the Academy of American Poets.
CLICK HERE TO READ!
Check it out LitFesters!
Alix Ohlin has recently posted an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books titled “Reader, You Married Him: Male Writers, Female Readers, and the Marriage Plot.” Great read for all the feminists out there and anyone looking for a well articulated and thought provoking read.
CLICK: http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type&id=1381&fulltext=1&media#article-text-cutpoint
LitFest author Tatjana Soli’s The Forgetting Tree has been placed on The New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2012! She is definitely one to watch! Come hear her read March 22nd at SMU LitFest!
See The Full List Here : 100 Notable Books of 2012
“When 14-year-old Nora gets a pair of diamond earrings in the mail from the father she’s never met, her mother, Ruby, looks at them and dryly remarks, “They’re the size of birth control pills.”
So begins Robin Romm’s Review of ‘Shout Her Lovely Name’ from LitFest author Natalie Serber. Read the New York Times Review and come hear Natalie Serber do a reading Saturday March 23rd at SMU LitFest!
I go to work, to the 27th floor,
to keen all day—
What has become of us?
How shall we know? Where has it gone?
Love, come home—
at the useless moon, the stupendous moon,
the vagabond, bewildering, unfaithful moon.
See Alan Michael Parker’s ‘Long Division’ reviewed by Heavy Feather Review HERE.
This is quite a wonderful little poem by LitFest author Matthew Olzmann. Perfect title and perfect lines: “Because you think swans are overrated.” Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as A Love Poem. Be sure to catch him March 21st at LitFest!
