Entries from L I T T O R A L | the journal of the Key West Literary Seminar tagged with '2008'
Ann Beattie: Ambient Sound: 2008
Ann Beattie is the Edgar Allan Poe Chair of the University of Virginia's Department of English and Creative Writing. A short story writer and a novelist, she has received critical acclaim for her body of work and has been...
Maggie Nelson: 2008
Maggie Nelson reads two long poems, "The Mute Story of November" and "The Halo Over the Hospital," from her book Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007). In a brief introduction, Nelson gives credit for the title of...
Kevin Young: 2008
This 2008 reading features poet Kevin Young reading a selection of then-recent work, including "Aunties," "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean," "Black Cat Blues," "Hang Dog Blues," "Flash Flood Blues," "Ode To The Hotel Near The Children's Hospital,"...
Kristen-Paige Madonia: 2008
Podcast: Kristen-Paige Madonia reads "Cheap Red Meat" at the 2008 Key West Literary Seminar.
podcast: Hannah Pittard, 2008
Hannah Pittard reads "The Year Helen Turned Forty-One," at the 2008 Key West Literary Seminar: New Voices. It begins: The year Helen turned forty-one, she developed bronchitis and fell in love. He was tan, wore shorts in the winter,...
podcast:<br>Edmund White: A Man's Own Story
Edmund White talks about finding a style and a mode of expression to approach the gay subject matter which has been his life's work. Discussing social, professional, and aesthetic attitudes toward gays and "gay literature," White reveals his experience...
Podcast: Uzodinma Iweala
Uzodinma Iweala reads from a nonfiction work-in-progress about people living with HIV/AIDS in northern Nigeria. Set in and around a rural hospital in northern Nigeria, the excerpt focuses on a young man named Ifanye, and his struggle with "the something"...
Podcast: How does a publisher find a new voice?
Elisabeth Scharlatt, publisher of Algonquin Books, and Manuel Muñoz, author of The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, discuss the hurdles and biases Muñoz encountered along his way to publication. Muñoz's roots in California's Central Valley and his concern with...
Kristen-Paige Madonia named TSKW Artist in Residence
Kristen-Paige Madonia, the winner of our inaugural Marianne Russo Scholarship, and a speaker during this year's New Voices Seminar, has been selected by The Studios of Key West as their very first visiting literary artist. She'll be staying in TSKW's...
Wow, <i>Wao</i>
<i>Wao</i> is a work about omission, and its power rests on the gaps in understanding central to the <i>fukú</i> which is the book's subject.
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