digital emunction » robert-p.-baird http://www.digitalemunction.com A website dedicated to literature, politics, life, and anything else worth talking about. Founded in 2006 by Robert P. Baird Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:11:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Advertisements for Myself: American Idol at Narrative http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/09/01/advertisements-for-myself-american-idol-at-narrative/ http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/09/01/advertisements-for-myself-american-idol-at-narrative/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:01:45 +0000 Robert P. Baird http://www.digitalemunction.com/?p=5416 The fall issue of Narrative Magazine includes a pair of excerpts from American Idol, the novel I’ve been writing in fits and starts during this long slow slog through graduate school. The novel tells the story of an American…

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Ange has a great new prose piece on Beirut, occasional DE glossator Anthony Madrid has a title-cursing poem, and I’ve got a contribution to the future of publishing in the new issue of…

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My review of Keith Waldrop’s Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy is up at Bookforum. Check it out…

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My review of Elizabeth Benedict’s new anthology Mentors, Muses & Monsters is up at Bookforum’s website. Check it out…

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An essay by the Salvadoran novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya that I translated with Wes Enzinna is up today at Guernica Magazine. Moya is an old friend of Roberto Bolaño’s, but his essay takes on the darker side of the…

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The New Chicago School

My proposal: That the closest thing we presently have to a “School” of younger, rigorously…

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I’ve got a review of Walter Bagehot’s Lombard Street, his 1873 book about the British money market, up at Yves Smith’s Naked Capitalism blog today. Check it out…

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A short story of mine called “Still Life with New York” has appeared in the new issue of BRAND, a British literary magazine. Check it out…

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My review of Joseph Donahue’s Terra Lucida appears in the Feb/Mar issue of Bookforum. Check it out…

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