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Flying House is Reading

Reviewing all our applications today and realizing that almost 50% of the writers who applied have last names that start with the letter W... coincidence?

LAST DAY TO APPLY

You have until midnight tonight to apply for Flying House 2011!! We've already received some amazing submissions, and we can't wait to start reviewing all the work!

Participants will be announced May 1. 

Daniela Olszewska @delirious hem

Olszewska writes a lyric essay, "White Dresses, Red Soles + Oil Painting: Some Notes on Emily Dickinson, Christian Louboutin + John Berger," up on delirious hem today. Is it a poet's job to make their work glamorous? She makes an interesting point... 

A (Late) March Feature Article, Sort Of

Inspired by ideas in Jeremy Allan Hawkins' piece, Frank Lloyd Wright, the Interstate, and the House: a Romance, I asked Brian Oliu to write something for our next feature. He did. Something unexpected. A new, creative trail he's blazing down. The piece says some interesting stuff about houses, and homes, and putting things in houses and homes, and how, even by putting things inside houses and homes, and trying to show possession of our houses and homes, we can never really own them.

Go read it here. 

Literature as the “wild west” of the arts today, by Steve Tomasula

Says Tomasula, “But what distinguishes literature from other kinds of writing is how it’s written. So one of the things I do in a class is get students to think of text as a medium—such as clay to a sculptor or sound to a composer—and ask, ‘How are you going to work this material?’” 


To read the whole article, go here.

Thursday! An Evening of Modern Fairy Tales

Come out to the Harold Washington Library tomorrow evening, and hear Kate Bernheimer and Lydia Millet read from their modern fairy tale collections. Bernheimer, once a professor of mine, is an expert––and enthusiast––of all things Brother's Grimm. She founded Fairy Tale Review, a delightfully dark literary journal, she edited three anthologies, including the more recent My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, and she has a plethora of short stories, essays, novels and other words all swirling around once upon a time.

I've also had the pleasure of meeting Kate's dear friend, Lydia Millet, and she too enjoys the fairy-word. Watching these two women together is an event not to be missed. Hope to see you there!