Sep 07 2010
Selected from the longlist of 13, the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize is: Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Knopf) Room by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown) In a Strange Roomby Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books) The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury UK) The Long Song by Andrea Levy (FSG) C by Tom McCarthy (Knopf) I [...]
Jul 01 2010
W. S. Merwin, one of Subterranean’s all-time favorite poets, will be the next US Poet Laureate.
Jun 24 2010
My favorite part of our database, Visual Anthology, is that you can type in partial keywords and it finds the book. (Every once in awhile she shuts down on us but in general I couldn’t have designed a better database myself. I mean I couldn’t have designed a database myself. She’s as helpful as Rosie [...]
Jun 24 2010
Check It: Our storyteller Georgy Rock was picked Best Storyteller in the 2010 A List issue of St. Louis Magazine. Now everyone will know. It’s no exaggeration to say Georgy Rock is, well, a rock of stability. She’s been spinning tales here for nearly 30 years, from the old Library Limited to ongoing gigs at [...]
Jun 03 2010
The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40″ issue is about to come out. It contains a group of fiction writers the editors consider to be worth paying attention to. They are: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 32 Chris Adrian, 39 Daniel Alarcón, 33 David Bezmozgis, 37 Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, 38 Joshua Ferris, [...]
Apr 26 2010
What can one say or write — coherently, meaningfully — about war? Combat itself will only ever be understood truly by those who have experienced it; the rest of us are in the dark, making more or less educated guesses about something totally beyond the scope of any normal human undertaking. But, war always fascinates [...]
Mar 03 2010
David Clewell! And we’re super excited. A man whose interests are after our Subterranean heart.
Dec 23 2009
I listen to A LOT of NPR. Many of you may have heard me rant about how much I dislike Terry Gross and love Diane Rehm. I’ve since narrowed that down to disliking Terry Gross the interviewer but liking the topics she discusses. Perhaps Fresh Air just needs a new host and I’d be happier. [...]
Oct 15 2009
The National Book Awards have thrown the voting open to the public to choose The Best of the National Book Awards Fiction. The following six finalists were selected by 140 writers from across the country. Curious that there’s so many short story volumes. The Stories of John Cheever Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison The Collected Stories [...]