More News on the McSweeney's App
The McSweeney's iPhone app was created by a British developer called Russell Quinn, and since its launch last Tuesday has shot to No1 on iTunes. Now we really are jealous. More about how the app came about on the 37... More...
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Tuesday, 29 September, 2009
Please will someone make us an app?
McSweeney's has launched its own Apple application, Small Chair. 'a weekly sampler from all branches of the McSweeney's family.' One week you might receive a story from the upcoming Quarterly the next week an interview from the Believer, the next a... More...
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Tuesday, 29 September, 2009
Dreams from My Father, Lolita and One Hundred Years of Solitude - the 25 books that have shaped world literature
To celebrate their 25th Aniversary, Wasifiri Magazine has compiled a list of the 25 books which have most shaped world literature in the last 25 years, chosen by a roll-call of names in international writing. It's a surprising mix... More...
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Monday, 28 September, 2009
Knights of the Round Table for the Knife Gang Generation Gets the Glyndebourne Treatment
Savvy producers often turn good books into films. Richard Yates's macabre novel Revolutionary Road won plaudits last year. The more light-hearted Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, comes out on October 16th 2009. Young people... More...
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Friday, 18 September, 2009
Online poetry workshop with Glyn Maxwell
Award-winning poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell is running an online poetry workshop this week for the Guardian. More...
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Friday, 18 September, 2009
Old Favourites - Richard Ford reads John Cheever
John Cheever's bitter, knife-sharp story Reunion is an exercise in brevity, and as near close to perfect as anything I've ever read. A young boy meets his errant father for lunch in New York and follows him from bar to... More...
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Monday, 14 September, 2009
Six Word Stories
Ernest Hemmingway once bet $10 he could write a complete story in just six words. He proclaimed the result - 'For sale, baby shoes, never worn' - the best story he'd ever written. Can you do better? post your six word stories below, and the best one will win a bundle of books. Here are a few to get you started... More...
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Monday, 7 September, 2009
