Moloch - Summer '09

"It is in times like these that language becomes at once threatened and vital. And so we continue to read, talk and write."

Press F11 and keep pressing Next - you'll see a beautiful magazine with some good reading. However, I wonder if "The Last of the Nazis has Died" couldn't be improved by changing the entire text of the poem to something like "Good."

Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes, Dies

...by all accounts McCourt himself was in no way transformed by his success. Though that doesn't mean he didn't enjoy it immensely. "I wrote a book about growing up miserable, and the next thing I know I'm here," he said. "It's absurd, isn't it? It's extraordinary." (Time Magazine)

I think Angela's Ashes is a marvellous book, good enough to stand on the same shelf as Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee. (Debateable?)

Feeding baby poems

"In the tradition of mother-writers making poems about baby feeding - writers like Eavan Boland and Sylvia Plath - I've written a poem about feeding my new baby." (Women Rule Writer)

The New Yorker online

Fiction

Lorrie Moore: “Childcare.”

Stephen O’Connor: “Ziggurat.”

Tim Gautreaux: “Idols.”

Jonathan Franzen: “Good Neighbors.”

Poetry

Jorge Luis Borges: “A Dream.”

Carol Muske-Dukes: “Twin Cities.”

Christian Wiman: “Five Houses Down.”

Julie Bruck: “The “World-Famous” Lipizzaners.”

The New Yorker continues to be a treasure trove for fiction and poetry. The above are online at the time of posting.

Nadine Gordimer reads a short story

Media Player at Nobelprize.org

"The 1991 Nobel Laureate in Literature Nadine Gordimer reads her short story 'Loot' from 'Loot and Other Stories'. The video was recorded at Harvard University in April, 2005."