Subscribe
Archives
- March 2018
- February 2018
- February 2017
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- January 2010
-
Recent Posts
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Good-bye, and Hello!
Dear Friends of Little Star, It has been the greatest delight and adventure to edit our app version, Little Star Weekly, for you. We have loved this little form, and the opportunity it has offered to whisper in your ear each week a small secret of literature. We also believed very strongly in the mission […]
Tagged Dennis Saleh
Comments Off on Good-bye, and Hello!
Tim Parks reinvents literary criticism
At Little Star we consider Tim Parks one of the central writers of the age. His novels—Europa, for instance, and Destiny and Cleaver—forge new literary constructions around narrators who are, on the one hand, intelligent and controlling and, on the other, unstable, revelatory, and self-discovering. His criticism for The New York Review of Books and […]
Comments Off on Tim Parks reinvents literary criticism
Melissa Green, artist
In a career replete with self-reinventions, our beloved contributing editor Melissa Green has recast herself as a forager of images, both from her native oceanfront landscape of the Winthrop, Massachusetts, and her own capacious imagination. We feature one in Little Star Weekly this week. It’s called “The Marsh at Evening.” Think of it as you read […]
Mina Loy: Taking in an itinerate surrealist
Insel panted into my place all undone, despairingly waving a sheet of blue paper. “Das blaue Papier,” he articulated hoarsely, ducking his head as if the Papier was one of a shower of such sheets bombarding him in his dash for escape. “Something the matter? Have a porto. Sit on a chair. Whatever it is—out […]
W. G. Sebald, Letters to a translator
Enthusiasts of the great W. G. Sebald have long enjoyed the beguiling uncertainty he invites regarding what in his works is “true” in the literal or documentary sense and what made up, and why. In a little cache of newly discovered letters we observe, second-hand, that this uncertainty presented more vexing problems for the translator. […]
Tagged German
Comments Off on W. G. Sebald, Letters to a translator
This Week on Our App, Little Star Weekly…
This week on our app, two heady idylls. First, newcomer John Moran follows the amorous Roger and Andre to an island of their own in “Clog Warrior.” Then in poetry, another ardent journey, this time an inner one, with Rimbaud’s Illuminations, in a new version by poet Ciaran Carson. Carson defies the usual progression by […]
Comments Off on This Week on Our App, Little Star Weekly…
Melissa Green Remembers Walcott and Brodsky
When it became apparent by my mid-twenties that I could not live by myself or in communal housing or anywhere except the hospital, I moved in with my grandmother. I’d nearly died. I wished I had done. The ER had called my parents to break the news that I might not live until morning, and […]
Tagged Poetry. American
Comments Off on Melissa Green Remembers Walcott and Brodsky
Different Animals, a new play by Abby Rosebrock
JESSICA Obviously I’ve heard that story since I was a kid, but the way you told it, I felt like I knew him— WILL Peter? That’s pretty high praise— JESSICA Like when people kept asking if he was with Jesus, and Peter kept being like, I don’t even know that guy. WILL (Agreeing) He was […]
Also posted in News
Comments Off on Different Animals, a new play by Abby Rosebrock
Bartleby Unveiled, by Prudence Crowther
Bartleby laid down his pen with finality. Did he mean to finish, I asked? He would “prefer not to.” And though I promised he needn’t meet his daily quota of 7,200 words but could stick to drawing up simple eviction notices, that month he wrote no more. Desperate to recharge the clerk’s former industry, I […]
Comments Off on Bartleby Unveiled, by Prudence Crowther
Lots Coming Up at Little Star!
We have an action-packed couple of months ahead and wanted to tell you about all our goings-on. ~ February 29: The long-awaited release of our delicious new app! With weekly installments of Little Star writing, new and seasoned. Music recommended by Alex Ross, art by Mary Weatherford. Created by the innovative app shop, 29th Street […]
Comments Off on Lots Coming Up at Little Star!