Charles Simic, who published his first poems in the Winter 1959 issue of Chicago Review, was named U.S. poet laureate today. Read the announcement in the NYT or check out “Stone”, a poem the magazine published in 1967. (Photo by Alexandra Daley-Clark.)
Update: Simic’s two poems from the Winter 1959 issue are now available in PDF at Chicago Review. And here’s a squib from an interview I did with Chicago’s WBEZ about the issue.
Marilynne Robinson’s review of Annie Dillard’s The Maytrees gets the cover of this week’s Washington Post Book World. The Post also features a funny interview of Dillard by Daniel Asa Rose. For more reviews of the novel, click here.
Alan Shapiro was recently interviewed on WUNC’s The State of Things. Shapiro is the author of Tantalus in Love and The Last Happy Occasion and translated The Oresteia.
The Maytrees, Annie Dillard’s new novel, is out. An ever-expanding list of reviews follows. Annie read a passage of the novel for NPR and talked a little about the book (whose original subtitle was “A Romantic Comedy about Light Pollution”) in a Publishers Weekly interview. She did another interview with the Washington Post’s Daniel Asa Rose. A chapter of the book originally showed up as “The Two of Them” in the Nov ‘03 Harper’s.
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