Bookworm

Jacques Roubaud, Ian Monk, Daniel Levin Becker, Marcel Bénabou, Anne F. Garréta and Hervé Le Tellier     
When members of the Oulipo convened in New York, Bookworm was there to record this mini-anthology of the transcendentally witty, sometimes hilarious goings-on.

The Loop (Dalkey Archive)

Jacques Roubaud describes the mesh of image and memory that makes up his fascinating, newly translated, unclassifiable book.

...on his translation of Pierre Martory's The Landscapist (The Sheep Meadow Press)

As John Ashbery remembers his early years in Paris, he reflects on French poetry and about the very special case of his long-time friend, Pierre Martory.

Out of fantasias of the past (Fu Manchu novels, exotic Hollywood films, documents of "friendly" imperialism from the twenties to the forties), Gary Indiana concocts the nightmare present of The Shanghai Gesture..

Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration (Graywolf); American Sublime (Graywolf)

When Elizabeth Alexander presented Barack Obama's inaugural

Warhorses: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The extraordinary part of this interview is the opportunity to hear Komunyakaa's

Follow Me (Little, Brown)
It has been said that life is like a river, and the river in this novel

Salvation Army (Semiotext(e))

In Abdellah Taïa's family and in his native country, homosexuality is surrounded by

The Women (Viking)
This richly layered conversation with T.C. Boyle centers on the subjects of art and arrogance. The Women

Eamon Grennan: Matter of Fact (Graywolf)
Major Jackson: Hoops (Norton)
Pattiann Rogers: Wayfare (Penguin)

Three poets join us on Bookworm to celebrate Walt Whitman. They read from Leaves of Grass,