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Laura Miller
interviews Rick Moody in RealAudio, "Family Demons"
(Salon)
Brock Clarke's short story "
Accidents" (Mississippi Review)
Theresa M. Senft's essay "
Antwerp Perverts" — warning: contains sexual images and
references (Nerve)
Stanley Kunitz reads the poem "In Memory of M.B." by
Anna Akhmatova in RealAudio; also audio readings by Catherine
Anderson, John Ashbery, and W. H. Auden (The Academy of American
Poets)
Amy Hempel reads her short story, "
Nashville Gone to Ashes" in RealAudio (Audible.com) 
Here's a great list of arts-and-technology-related titles to watch for in the coming months. Please keep in mind that book release dates are nebulous. These print books, hypertexts, and e-books may be available sooner or later than the dates listed. Enjoy! Bradley, George: Some Assembly Required (Knopf). Poems focused on the unusual vortex of our hypercharged, modern world and the unhurried, cyclical imaginings of the human mind. [expected 08/01] Coverly, M.D.: Califia (Eastgate Systems). This first rate hypertext examines the memories of five generations of Californians, full of bravado and mystery, as Augusta Summerland searches for a lost cache of gold. [currently available] DeGrandpre, Richard: Digitopia: The Look of the New Digital You (AtRandom ebooks). "In twenty-five original and provocative essays, DeGrandpre questions whether we as individuals or as a society have adequately considered the implications of a fully-wired world, and finds considerable historical evidence that our digital culture will lead us to a time that has, literally, no place. The name of this placeless place is of course Digitopia." [currently available] Garwin, Richard L., and George Charpak: Megawatts and Megatons (Knopf). The genius of Garwin, designer of the first hydrogen bomb, and Charpak, Nobel Prize winner in Physics, is clear in this book of non-fiction as they argue in favor of the use of nuclear power [expected 08/01] Hannah, Barry: Yonder Stands Your Orphan (Atlantic Monthly Press). Check out the latest novel from "the best fiction writer to appear in the South since Flannery O'Connor" (Larry McMurtry). Read an interview with Hannah. [expected 06/01] Koolhaas, Rem, and Stephano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, Daniela Fabricius, Nadia Tazi, Hans Ulrich Obrist: Mutations (Actar Editorial). "Koolhaas teams up with an international group of top architects and theorists to explore the myriad ways in which the city is undergoing a series of profound transformations, changes so radical that they demand a completely new discourse-about urbanism, architecture, technology, and the environment." Read the New York Times' feature on Koolhaas, which includes an online slide show. [expected 04/01] Lambert, Phyllis, ed., Werner Oechslin, ed., Detlef Mertins, ed., Peter Eisenman, ed., Rem Koolhaas ed.,: Mies in America (Harry N Abrams). These essays present original interpretations of the achievements of one of the 20th century's greatest architects, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. This book includes considerable new research and exposes previously unstudied drawings, collages, photographs, project documents, and oral histories about Mies' work in America. [expected 06/01] Moorcock, Michael: The Cornelius Quartet: "The Final Program," "A Cure for Cancer," "The English Assasin," and "The Condition of Muzak" (FourWallsEightWindows). Finally, the complete tale of Jerry Cornelius: Hit man, musician, physicist, and English messiah of the modern age. [expected 05/01] Munt, Sally R., ed.: Technospaces (Continuum). People meet technology in technospaces, places outside the body and the city and reality — or are they? Contributors reflect on Luddite concerns and the possibilities of a tech-driven Utopia. [expected 05/01] Murakami, Haruki: Sputnik Sweetheart (Knopf). The author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood has written a missing-person novel/ love story. It involves a young Japanese teacher's unrequited love, strange computer accounts of the missing girl, a constantly orbiting Sputnik, and deep meditations on human longing. Read his interview on Salon. [expected 04/24/01] O'Hear, Anthony: New Century Philosophy (Continuum). A philosophical study of science versus religion. Is there knowledge outside of the lab? Does religion still have meaning in the modern world? Why don't more contemporary artists believe in beauty and the future? [expected 07/01] Rogers, Pattiann: Song of the World Becoming: Poems, New and Collected, 1981-2001 (Milkweed). Read her interview with The Morpo Review. [expected 04/01] Smith, Charles: Pocket Handbook Polymers & Other MacRomolecules (Prentice Hall Trade). No idea what this is about, but I love the title. [expected 06/01] Svoboda, Terese: Trailer Girl and Other Stories (Counterpoint). Experimental, piercing, even violent. Svoboda "captures things slipping out of control, people falling away from each other and themselves. Svoboda apprehends the ether of memory, capturing moments in freeze frames, preserving what otherwise might be lost." - A.M. Homes [currently available] Tell us what you think. Email talkback@pifmagazine.com Want Pif to review your book? Camille Renshaw is the Editor-in-Chief for Pif Magazine. |
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