August 2006 Archives
Everyone needs to check out Professor Roy and the Amazingly Bad Poetry Journal. Professor Roy takes poems he finds, many of them at Poems.com, and explains, often with great humor, why they're examples of very bad poetry. I'm teaching two sections of creative writing this semester, and I'm tempted to make this Live Journal required reading.
Ali Baba Reading by Matt Hobson: "Matt Hobson reads 'Bigfoot Stole My Wife' and 'I am Bigfoot' by Ron Carlson."
Long before Michael Largo appeared in an early issue of 2RV, he was collecting statistics and information on the American way of dying. In October 2006, HarperCollins will release Final Exists: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of How We Die, Largo's illustrated sourcebook on the various ways of dying. Visit Final Exists to learn about (and order) Largo's eye-opening and irreverent look at the truth behind kicking the bucket.
In The New York Times, Nick Tosches says of Allessandro Barricos's new translation of the Iliad: "[It] is not heroic. It is not much of anything. This is a shame ... a misrepresentation of something great." Ouch!
(Via The New York Times.)
