NewPages.com has posted a very nice review of our current issue, Vol. 5, No. 2.
Reviewer, Sima Rabinowitz, writes, "Ninth Letter is part literary journal, part coffee-table book – the kind of coffee-table book you go back to again and again, admiring the gorgeous artwork and spectacularly designed pages each time with the same sense of awe, surprise, and delight."
The review praises Katori Hall’s “Oreo Girl: The Miscegenation of Miss Emma Brown,” The Music Feature, Naton Leslie's essay "Listening to Johnny Cash," as well as poems by Christopher Dwerse and Ryo Yamaguch.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Tournament of Books
Round 1 of the Tournament of Books is underway and now is the perfect time to get caught up on the action, if you haven't been keeping up, because tomorrow's match features 9L contributor, Keith Lee Morris' novel, The Dart League King.
Tune in tomorrow to find out if The Dart League King wins the match.
Keith Lee Morris has a story, "Camel Light," in the current issue (Vol. 5, No. 2) and also had three stories--"Butterflies," "Listen While I Speak," and "There Are in This World Moments of Great Beauty"--in the Vol. 2, No. 2 issue.
Good luck!
Tune in tomorrow to find out if The Dart League King wins the match.
Keith Lee Morris has a story, "Camel Light," in the current issue (Vol. 5, No. 2) and also had three stories--"Butterflies," "Listen While I Speak," and "There Are in This World Moments of Great Beauty"--in the Vol. 2, No. 2 issue.
Good luck!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
New Books!
We're always happy to share good news, so we wanted to let you know about some new books from 9L contributors.
Perfect Hurt by Bradford Gray Telford (Vol. 5, No. 1).
“...Perfect Hurt, an elegant debut that somehow manages to be both restrained and luscious at once. How can such carefully patterned, structured poems engender this roiling intensity, convey such a sense of careening interiority?...Here is a new voice that arrives as something already achieved: a presence, a consciousness: a made, unmistakable self.” - Mark Doty
Flying by Eric Kraft (Vol. 1, No. 1).
Laura Miller reviewed the book for The New York Times. Time's review says, ...Flying is a reminder of how entertaining a novel can be when it slips the surly bonds of realism."
The Book of Props by Wayne Miller (Vol. 4, No. 1).
Publishers Weekly's review states: "Transformations—from the everyday to the wondrous and/ or haunting—are everywhere in Miller’s elegant second book. The poems are at once dreamlike and fervent in their will to cleave to the material world."
Live Nude Girl by Kathleen Rooney (Vol. 4, No. 2).
"While revealing what a nude model does, how she does it and why, what she feels and thinks while doing it, Rooney explores what her profession means to her personally and what it means and has meant to others. The writing is enticing, engaging, inviting, and the anecdotes it tells are irresistible." - Peter Stitt, editor of The Gettysburg Review
Perfect Hurt by Bradford Gray Telford (Vol. 5, No. 1).
“...Perfect Hurt, an elegant debut that somehow manages to be both restrained and luscious at once. How can such carefully patterned, structured poems engender this roiling intensity, convey such a sense of careening interiority?...Here is a new voice that arrives as something already achieved: a presence, a consciousness: a made, unmistakable self.” - Mark Doty
Flying by Eric Kraft (Vol. 1, No. 1).
Laura Miller reviewed the book for The New York Times. Time's review says, ...Flying is a reminder of how entertaining a novel can be when it slips the surly bonds of realism."
The Book of Props by Wayne Miller (Vol. 4, No. 1).
Publishers Weekly's review states: "Transformations—from the everyday to the wondrous and/ or haunting—are everywhere in Miller’s elegant second book. The poems are at once dreamlike and fervent in their will to cleave to the material world."
Live Nude Girl by Kathleen Rooney (Vol. 4, No. 2).
"While revealing what a nude model does, how she does it and why, what she feels and thinks while doing it, Rooney explores what her profession means to her personally and what it means and has meant to others. The writing is enticing, engaging, inviting, and the anecdotes it tells are irresistible." - Peter Stitt, editor of The Gettysburg Review
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Joe Meno: Story Prize Finalist
Congratulations to 9L contributor Joe Meno, who was a finalist for the 2008 Story Prize, along with Tobias Wolff and Jhumpa Lahiri, for his short story collection, Demons in the Spring (Akashic Books).
Check out The New York Times Paper Cuts blog for more about the Story Prize awards ceremony and for a brief interview with Joe Meno about being a finalist.
Joe Meno's story, "An Apple could make You Laugh," was featured in the Fall/Winter 2006 (Vol. 3, No. 2) issue of Ninth Letter.
W.W.Norton will publish Joe Meno's next novel, The Great Perhaps, in the May. Here is a video of Joe Meno reading an excerpt from the novel.
Check out The New York Times Paper Cuts blog for more about the Story Prize awards ceremony and for a brief interview with Joe Meno about being a finalist.
Joe Meno's story, "An Apple could make You Laugh," was featured in the Fall/Winter 2006 (Vol. 3, No. 2) issue of Ninth Letter.
W.W.Norton will publish Joe Meno's next novel, The Great Perhaps, in the May. Here is a video of Joe Meno reading an excerpt from the novel.
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