the tsipi keller book blog

year-end recommendations

2007-12-31T05:27:00.001-08:00

Book: Pick up Alfred Chester's The Exquisite Corpse, and anything else you can find by him.

Film: Abbas Kiarostami's TEN (2004), available on DVD. Make sure you also watch "10 on Ten" - a gem self-interview.

two great Hebrew writers in English

2007-08-13T09:55:00.000-07:00

Follow these links:

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=GnessinBookReview http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=ReviewPreliminaries

tsipi

a hole in one

2007-02-25T09:32:00.000-08:00

if you haven't seen this movie, do!
tsipi

Review in the Forward 8/4/06

2006-08-03T06:41:00.000-07:00

Check out Joshua Cohen's review in this week's issue of the Forward - get the magazine or follow the link:
http://www.forward.com/articles/8214

tsipi

Elfriede Jelinek

2006-07-27T07:41:00.000-07:00

Recommend you rush and get her Women as Lovers. Years and years ago read her Wonderful Wonderful Times, and, The Piano Teacher. Thanks to a friend, just now discovered her 1975 Women as Lovers. Read it!

Retelling Book Party at Skylight Room/ Night and Day restaurant/bar in Brooklyn

2006-07-06T11:06:00.000-07:00

Great party on 6/28, great space, and this week's issue of Time Out NY - Retelling reviewed by Michael Miller - smart and intelligent review:

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/Details.do?page=1&xyurl=xyl://TONYWebArticles1/562/books/retelling.xml

tsipi

Village Voice

2006-05-27T11:12:00.000-07:00

Check out article in VV on Independent Publishers -
http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0622,winter,73348,10.html

tsipi

Publishers Weekly Review Retelling

2006-05-14T16:18:00.000-07:00

From Publishers Weekly
The mystery of who butchered ethereally beautiful and pregnant Elsbeth is at the heart of Keller's elegant and spooky second novel (part of a trilogy, after Jackpot). Was it the traumatized and fragile narrator, Sally, whose friendship with the dead woman verged on the obsessive? Or was it Elsbeth's arrogant and demanding boyfriend, Drew, who resented Sally's relationship with her? Keller flirts with the answer as her novel slips back and forth through time to depict tantalizing glimpses of possible truths filtered through Sally's uncertain memories. As her emotions unravel, Sally finds solace in the gentlemen who play chess in the park where she breakfasts, and maintains, however fitfully, an uneasy reliance on Lydia, a self-centered and mean-spirited friend who thinks Sally is better off with Elsbeth dead. The police, bent on extracting a confession from Sally, harangue her during increasingly abusive interrogation sessions that provide her a forum for creepily pondering her (questionable) innocence. This opaque yet beguiling novel showcases the work of a talented and original writer. (July)

Retelling excerpt

2006-04-26T08:04:00.000-07:00

To read excerpt from Retelling - my new novel, to be released 7/1/06 (Spuyten Duyvil) - please follow link to Projected Letters:

http://www.projectedletters.com/fiction/retelling.html

tsipi

Three Great Performance Artists in NYC

2006-04-13T10:35:00.000-07:00

"Ron Athey, Franko B, Vaginal Davis: Where Art and Life Collide," brings these three extraordinary performance artists to NYC for a series of premiere performances, in addition to lectures and events related to their work.

These are three truly unique artists with long and remarkable careers built in the margins of art and culture. I will be sending out a formal press release soon, but I wanted to give everyone a heads up so you could be sure to make time for the events that interest you and have some background information.

These three artists are almost never funded or presented in the United States, even though Athey and Davis are both based in Los Angeles. This will be the first ever U.S. performance by Franko B, despite a huge career in Europe including major exhibitions and performances at Venues like the TATE Modern, and having had four books published on his work.

For immediate info and visuals you can also visit the artists websites:
www.ronathey.com
www.franko-b.com
www.vaginaldavis.com

Schedule of Events:
(please note: all details subject to change, visit www.artofnightlife.com for current info)

April 28- Roselee Goldberg/Performa hosts "NOT FOR SALE" panel with C. Carr, ORLAN, and other special guest scholars and critics, 6-8 pm, followed by reception, NYU Barney building, 34 Stuyvesant Street, FREE

May 1- Ron Athey, "Incorruptible Flesh: Dissociative Sparkle", durational performance 5-10pm, Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, $10

May 2- Franko B, "Why are you here?", one to one performances, 4pm-midnight by appointment (212-254-4334), Participant Gallery, 95 Rivington Street, ($20)

May 3- LesbiansToTheRescue presentation of special edition poster project, followed by screening of Simeon Hutner's documentary film about Ron Athey, "Martyrs and Saints," including Q+A with film maker, 6:30pm, NYU Barney building, 34 Stuyvesant Street, FREE

May 4- Vaginal Davis, "Bricktops Takes Man!hattan", 6pm student installation opening reception, 10pm showtime ($10), Earl Dax Presents @Siberia, 356 West 40th Street

May 5- Ron Athey, Vaginal Davis, Franko B Artist lectures, followed by panel discussion with the artists moderated by Jose Munoz and Jennifer Doyle, 6-8pm, NYU Barney building, 34 Stuyvesant Street, FREE

"Where Art and Life Collide" is the work of a collaborative coalition including:

Artists Space
Earl Dax Presents
NYU: Department of Art and Art Professions, Department of Performance Studies, Center for Religion and Media, Humanities Council, Department of Applied Psychology, Department of Drama Therapy, Office of Lesbian Gay Transgender Student Services
Participant Inc.
PERFORMA
Performance Space 122
Visual AIDS

Please spread the word!
Tsipi

My new novel, Retelling, and future events

2006-02-12T09:15:00.000-08:00

As some of you know, Retelling will be out in a few months. Meantime, events lined up for near future:

March 1: Reading with Bruce Benderson and Jane Delynn at Contemporary Museum, St. Louis, MO., at 6pm. Bruce will read from The Romanian, Jane from a work-in-progress, and I'll be reading from Jackpot. An e-invite/flyer should be ready soon, which I'll send out and post here.

April 5-6-7-8 - Spuyten Duyvil authors participating at the &NOW Festival at the Lake Forest College in Chicago. Go to the &NOW website for more details: http://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/programs/engl/andnow/

May 12 - I'll be reading at NYU's Deutsches Haus in the west village, NY, together with poet Andrew Kaufman. Andrew will read from his Earth's Ends, I'll read either from Retelling (if it's ready) or from Jackpot.

May 15 - reading at Moe's Books, in San Francisco, with Tod Thilleman and other Spuyten Duyvil authors. Tod will read from his new and great novel, Gowanus Canal, I'll read from Retelling, and/or Jackpot. (For more details, visit www.spuytenduyvil.net)

May 17 - Tod Thilleman reading at City Lights, San Francisco

May 19 - reading with Tod Thilleman at Dutton's Brentwood Bookstore

(For more details on the West Coast book tour and other events, visit the Spuyten Duyvil website.)

Bruce Benderson's The Romanian

2006-01-09T08:38:00.000-08:00

Mark your calendars - Bruce Benderson will be reading from his new book, The Romanian, across the country (see below). The Romanian was translated into French and published in France last year, winning the prestigious Prix de Flore, a prize normally given to French authors only - Bruce is the first American writer to win it, and for good reason. It's a great book on many levels and it'll be out in couple of weeks (Penguin-Viking). I recommend you all get the book and go to a reading, if you can:

Thursday, February 2: New York City
7 PM: Barnes & Noble, 675 Sixth Avenue, NYC 10010, 212/727-1227

Monday, February 6: Boston
7 PM: Calamus Bookstore, 92B South Street, Boston, MA 02111, 617/338-1931

Monday, February 13: Los Angeles
7:30 PM: A Different Light, 8853 Santa Monica Blvd., LA, CA 90069 310/854-6601

Thursday, February 16: San Francisco
7 PM: A Different Light, 489 Castro Street, SF, CA 94114, 415/431-0891

Saturday, February 18: Corte Madera
7 PM: Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA 94925, 415/927-0973

Monday, February 20: Eugen
7:30 PM: Borders, 5 Oakway Center, Eugene, OR 97401, 541/345-6072.

Tuesday, February 21: Olympia
The Evergreen State College, Com 301
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505 (360) 867-5412

Wednesday, February 22: Portland
7:30 PM: Powell’s, 1005 W. Burnside, Portland, OR, 503/228-4651,

Saturday February 25: Seattle
7:30 PM: Elliott Bay, 101 S. Main Street, Seattle, WA 98104, 206/624-6600

Monday, February 27: Chicago
7:30 PM: Barbara’s, 1100 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60301

Tuesday, February 28: St. Louis
7 PM: Left Bank Books, 399 N. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, Mo 63113

Wednesday, March 1:
6 PM: St Louis Museum, 70 Waterman Place, st louis MO 63112
314 361 8628 (I will be reading, too, at this event, from Jackpot)

Thursday, March 2: Atlanta
8 PM: OutWrite, 991 Piedmont Avenue, NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, 404/607-0082

Thursday, March 9: Miami Beach
8 PM: Books & Books, 933 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL 33139, 305/532-3222

Tuesday, March 14: Coral Gables
8 PM: Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134, 305/444-9044

If you can't make any of the readings, make sure to get The Romanian!
Tsipi

RECOMMEND

2005-12-27T08:31:00.000-08:00

Two great new books:

Gowanus Canal, by Tod Thilleman (a novel)
The Quorum, by Joshua Cohen (stories)

Tsipi

and, a good, productive, inspired 2006!

joelle hann

2005-12-19T08:46:00.000-08:00

check out Joelle's blog for good poetry and more - mybrazilianlife.blogspot.com

Tsipi

The artist Helene Aylon showing in Brooklyn College

2005-11-30T08:07:00.000-08:00

A great exhibit, I will be going the night of the 15th or 16th - here are the details:

Date: Until December 16th
Time: Monday - Friday 12:30 - 4:30pm (However, on 12/15 and 12/16 doors will remain open until 8pm).

The Brooklyn College Art Gallery
Brooklyn War Memorial
195 Cadman Plaza West
Brooklyn, NY
718-951-5181

A or C train to High Street; 2 or 3 train to Clark Street.

Tsipi

ArtistFirst radio interview

2005-11-17T08:34:00.000-08:00

Want to hear my sweet voice? go to:

http://www.artistfirst.com/Archive.htm
(interview will be archived for about 3 months)

scroll down till you get to 10/6 and click on my name,
and if you want to be interviewed by Scott, write to
him:

request@artistfirst.com

Tsipi

Miami Book Fair

2005-11-12T08:04:00.000-08:00

Will be reading at the Miami Book Fair on November 20th at 4pm. Come in droves...

Also, look for Joshua Cohen's The Quorum (Twisted Spoon Press, 2005) and read it!
Tsipi

Motorman by David Ohle

2005-10-20T19:14:00.000-07:00

Discovered recently David Ohle's Motorman - read it!
He also has a new novel out, The Age of Sinatra - haven't read it yet, but will, soon. Meantime, go to www.scripter.net to read more about Age of Sinatra.
Tsipi

Reading at Books & Books

2005-09-27T06:56:00.000-07:00

I'll be reading from Jackpot --

WHERE?

BOOKS & BOOKS
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables, FL 33134
305-442-4408

WHEN?

OCTOBER 2, 2005 AT 4PM

DIRECTIOS:
Take I-95 toward Miami (70 miles from West Palm)
I-95 becomes S. Dixie Highway/U.S.-1 South (1.2 miles)
Turn slight right onto SW 22nd Avenue (0.5 miles)
Turn left onto SW 22nd Street/Coral Way/FL-972 W.
Continue to follow Coral Way/FL-972 W. (1.7 miles)
Turn right onto Ponce de Leon Blvd. (0.1 miles)
Turn left onto Aragon Avenue (0.1 miles)

The Reading is free and open to the public. Please spread the word!

ELIMAE

2005-09-12T18:17:00.000-07:00

A great online mag. - check it out. Also, in new issue (click on new when you get to site) an excerpt from my Future Cafe.

Off to NY for 10 days,
tsipi

Dahlia Ravikovitch 1936-2005

2005-08-22T08:47:00.000-07:00

Just got the terrible terrible news that Dahlia is gone. She was a great poet, and a great person to be with, funny, witty, and brave. Here is a poem. If you want to see more of her work, let me know.

AN EXCEPTIONAL AUTUMN
Slowly slowly I see it vividly,
how I was trapped here.
Ten in the morning, a pastoral tranquility
following a night-long vigil.
Plants bloom wherever the eye falls.
Patches of fabric cover every available surface.
And the kettle.
And the household implements conspicuously spare.
And the calm within.
And from without, the plaintive wail of a toddler:
they've snatched his swing.
Someone digs with a simple farming tool--
I've forgotten its name.
(Forgotten? Ah, well.)
Steady blows, and the rustle of a hose being dragged along.
Everybody here sweeps and cultivates
the fauna and flora.
The women also knit a lot,
manual labor is of the utmost importance.
This diligence and drive to be useful
paint a false idyllic picture.
But for the fear of the Labor Movement's creed,
men would have swallowed each other alive.

It's been three days already
that my mother sleeps the sleep of the just.
I said to Ido: Grandma sleeps in peace and quiet.
And Ido said: Is it perhaps eternal sleep?
God forbid, I said,
not eternal sleep.
Just peace and quiet.
And yet, without sowing fear,
I tell myself
eternal sleep is best of all.

Amazon.com

2005-08-22T07:31:00.000-07:00

I joined Amazon's Associates program, so, if you want to buy Jackpot, or any other book, you may do so by going to:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home?site=amazon&tag=thetsipikelle-20

I think this makes me a merchant...
tsipi

David Lincoln in Bali

2005-08-08T08:23:00.000-07:00

All of you who know David, may want to check his blog - www.theyor.blogspot.com - and follow him and Sara on their 6-month voyage. Right now they're in Bali, eventually, will end up in South India. And there are pictures, too.
tsipi

WBAI Interview

2005-08-04T16:44:00.000-07:00

For those of you who missed the WBAI interview with Janet Coleman, you can listen to it at your leisure, as it is archived at:

www.catradiocafe.com

tsipi

jackpot in Finland

2005-08-01T07:40:00.000-07:00

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tsipi.htm

new jackpot review

2005-08-01T05:35:00.000-07:00

New Jackpot review in the courier-journal (Louisville, KY) by Paul McDonald - can be read on:

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005507170305

http://allegedgravitas.blogspot.com/2005/07/book-review-jackpot-by-tsipi-keller.html

New York

2005-07-14T14:10:00.000-07:00

Will be away for a couple of weeks, leaving for NY, and will be back sometime end of July.
Tsipi

Robert Gray's Fresh Eyes

2005-07-10T17:45:00.000-07:00

Please visit http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/shire15/
and read Robert Gray on Jackpot and lots more,
tsipi

new Jackpot review

2005-07-06T10:07:00.000-07:00

A new Jackopt review at Ebb & Flow:

http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/ebbandflow/

Reading Ear Inn July 23 at 3pm

2005-07-02T12:50:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

Will be reading from Jackpot at Ear Inn on July 23 at 3pm with poets Andrew Kaufman and Alexandra Wilder.

The Ear Inn is at 326 Spring Street. You can find transportation tips at their web site: www.earinnreadings.mbroder.com

Admission Free. Hope to see many of you.

message from filmmaker Karen Kramer

2005-07-02T07:44:00.000-07:00

On July 22nd, THE BALLAD OF GREENWICH VILLAGE will open at the Quad Cinema on 13th Street and play for the entire week.

THE BALLAD OF GREENWICH VILLAGE is a 70 minute documentary that tells the story of the artists, rebels, and bohemians who came to New York's Greenwich Village over many decades, and changed the face of American culture through their art and politics.
The film portrays important political and social movements that started in Greenwich Village - such as the first interracial jazz club, the earliest Socialist newspapers from before World War I, and the Stonewall rebellion that sparked gay liberation. The film also interweaves on-camera interviews with many well-known artists who had their creative roots in Greenwich Village such as Tim Robbins, Maya Angelou, Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, Edward Albee, Richie Havens, Peter,Paul& Mary - as well as local painters, drag queens, club owners and activists.

Interweaving past and present, and combining 16mm footage, archival photographs, Hollywood movies, cartoons, stories from people living and dead, famous and obscure -and with a soundtrack ranging from ragtime to bebop to folk music- the film is a celebration of what was America's true bohemia.

Stay tuned for more information or check the Quad website at www.quadcinema.com

Karen Kramer

Jackpot review in ABR

2005-06-29T13:04:00.000-07:00

A new Jackpot review in the current (July/August) issue of American Book Review.

meme baton

2005-06-27T08:59:00.000-07:00

Patry Francis has passed the meme baton to me, and since it's all about books, I agreed. So, here are my answers:

You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do you want to be?
Dostoevesky's, Notes from the Underground

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Yes, quite a few, and most of them female. The protagonists of:
Jelinek's The Piano Teacher
Jelinek's Wonderful Wonderful Times
Ellen Miller's Like Being Killed
Nathalie Sarraute's Do you Hear Them?
Lisa Lerner's Just Like Beauty
Veza Canetti's The Tortoises
Jane Bowles' Two Serious Ladies
Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

The male protagonists:
Jiri Weil's Life with a Star
All of Thomas Bernhard's
All of Samuel Beckett's

The last book you bought is?
Cows by Matthew Stokoe - great book

What are you currently reading?
Addition & Subtraction by Richard McNally - in manuscript form at the moment. Loved his collection of short stories, Velocity (2001, Curious Rooms).

Five books you would take to a deserted island

1. The Bible

2. Wallace Stevens' Collected Poems

3. Musil's The Man Without Qualities

4. Flaubert's Bouvard & Pecuchet

5. Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?

I'm going to pass the meme to Bev Walton, Book Coolie, and S.L. Cunningham, because i think they will pick up the baton and run with it.

Tsipi

go visit

2005-06-26T07:22:00.000-07:00

hello gang,
go visit a great site - http://dog1net.blogspot.com/ - read about Jackpot, and more.
tsipi

Velocity - by Richard McNally

2005-06-24T06:26:00.000-07:00

and an ABSOLUTELY MUST READ, Velocity, by Richard McNally. It's a collection of short stories, a bit difficult to find, but worth whatever trouble you'll have to go through to get your hands on it. It was published in 2001 by Curious Rooms, the ISBN # is: 9710046-1-7. There's a saying in Hebrew that since the Temple was detroyed, prophecy was given to fools and children. Call me a Fool, call me a Child, but I prophesy that McNally will be read long after all of us are gone.
Tsipi

cows by matthew stokoe

2005-06-24T06:23:00.000-07:00

Finished reading Cows - an amazing book from start to finish - read it!
tsipi

Jackpot Review - PaperFrigate

2005-06-23T17:11:00.000-07:00

Pat Cummings, Books Editor of BlogCritics, has posted his review of Jackpot on the following sites:

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/23/155124.php

http://paperfrigate.blogspot.com/2005/06/claustrophobia-in-paradise-jackpot-by.html

These are two good sites for literature, pay them a visit.
Tsipi

Ron Hogan of the Beatrice.com blog - 6/22/05

2005-06-23T08:15:00.000-07:00

This is what Ron said about Jackpot and Book Coolie. Please visit his blog for more about books and literature:

"I also started dipping into Tsipi Keller's blog after reading Jackpot, a tight downward noir spiral of a sexually and emotionally frustrated twentysomething woman abandoned by a friend at a Bahamas resort. From her site, I stumbled onto a guest essay on writing in non-native English at the excellent literary site Book Coolie, which appears to focus primarily on what might most easily be referred to as "world literature."

poetry

2005-06-19T07:12:00.000-07:00

for ye poetry lovers -

http://www.cipherjournal.com/html/greenberg_keller.html

my essay Guest in the House of English on the Book Coolie blog

2005-06-17T07:22:00.000-07:00

For all of you baseball and language lovers: this is what my friend Carol wrote in response to the "bullpen" comment in the essay:

On "bullpen", I found the following:
In baseball(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball), the bullpen is the area where pitchers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcher)warm-up before entering a game. Depending on the ballpark, it may be situated in foul territory down the baselines or just beyond the outfield fence. Also, the group of relief pitchers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_pitcher) for a team is collectively referred to as the bullpen. These relievers usually wait in the bullpen when they have yet to play in a game, rather than in the dugout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugout)
with the rest of the team.

The origin of the term bullpen is debated with no one theory gaining unanimous, or even substantial, prevalence over another. The term first appeared in wide use shortly after the turn of the 20th century
[1] (http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorb.htm)
(http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorb.htm) and has been used since in roughly its present meaning. Some of the most common theories are:
1. The bullpen symbolically represents the fenced in area of a bull's pen, where bulls wait before being sent off to the slaughter. The relief pitchers are the bulls and the bullpen represents their pen.
2. Late arrivers to ball games in the late 19th century were cordoned off into standing room only areas in foul territory. Because the fans were herded like cattle, this area became known as the bullpen, a designation which was later transferred over to the relief pitchers who warmed up there.
3. At the turn of the century, outfield fences were often adorned with advertisements for Bull Durham Tobacco
(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bull_Durham_Tobacco&action=edit)
Since relievers warmed up in a nearby pen, the term bullpen was created.
4. In the 1800s, jails and holding cells were nicknamed bullpens, in respect of many police officers' bullish features -- strength and a short temper. The term was later applied to bullpens in baseball.
5. Casey Stengel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Stengel)
suggested the term might have been derived from managers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manager
getting tired of their relief pitchers "shooting the bull http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shoot_the_bull&action=edit)
in the dugout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugout_(baseball))
and were therefore sent elsewhere, where they wouldn't be a bother to the rest of
the team -- the bullpen. How serious he was when he made this claim is not
clear.
Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullpen
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullpen)

links to JACKPOT reviews

2005-06-17T06:48:00.000-07:00

Review excerpts at: http://spuytenduyvil.net/fiction/jackpot.htm

These reviews are available on line:

http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0972066217.asp

http://www.brooklynrail.org/books/oct04/offtheshelves.html (please scroll down the page to "Fiction")

http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/lection/041205.html

http://trashotron.com/agony/news/2005/06-13-05.htm#061505

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/23/155124.php

http://paperfrigate.blogspot.com/2005/06/claustrophobia-in-paradise-jackpot-by.html

http://dog1net.blogspot.com/

http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/ebbandflow/

http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/shire15/

links to literary blogs

2005-06-16T12:31:00.000-07:00

This list will be updated periodically:

The Agony Column
The Rolling Shelves
Fresh Eyes: A Bookseller's Journal
Alleged Gravitas
Paulmcd.net
About a Girl
Beatrice.com
BlogCritics
Eric Berlin at: http://www.dumpsterbust.com
Buzz, Balls, & Hype by M.J. Rose
Bookangst 101 by Mad Max Perkins
book coolie
bookninja
Booksense
Bookslut
English Space
Ebb and Flow
Flogging the Quill by Ray Rhamey
The Elegant Variation by Mark Sarvas
Rants, Raves, & Random Thoughts
Chekhov's Mistress
LitFreak
Flirty Kitty
Toth World
The Chatelain's Poetics
MobyLives
Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
Inky Girl
Scribequill
Elemental Musings
Southern Comfort
Paper Frigate
Nipposkiss
Summer of Gloves
Likha
Kinja
Throw Novel from the Train
Tequila mockingbird
Publishers Marketplace
Adrian's Lemon Juice Blog
Scarletmuse by Karen Junker, Writer's Weekend
Maud Newton
Galley Cat
Emerging Writers Network
a reader's journal
ArtsJournal
Anthem Book Blog
Toth World

other links of interest:
http://www.thunderburst.co.uk
www.blasmanueldeluna.com
www.theyor.blogspot.com
http://uta.edu/english/tim/lection/041205.html
http://www.scripter.net/backpages/jackpot.htm
The Northshire Bookstore (Vermont)
The St Marks Bookshop (NYC)

new Jackpot review by Rick Kleffel

2005-06-15T13:19:00.000-07:00

For those of you who do come here and take a peek, here's a link to a new review on Jackpot:

http://trashotron.com/agony/news/2005/06-13-05.htm#061505

Also, am reading a fascinating novel: COWS by Matthew Stokoe (Creation, 1999).
Here's the info i cut and paste from Amazon. Apparently, there's another novel after Cows, titled: High Life, which i'm putting on my list.

Cows
by Matthew Stokoe
Avg. Customer Rating:
Rate this item)
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback
Usually ships within 1-2 business days
Used & new from $9.00

2. High Life (Little House on the Bowery)
by Matthew Stokoe (Paperback - July 1, 2002)
Avg. Customer Rating:
(Rate this item)

Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $16.95
Buy new: $11.53
Used & new from $10.49

tsipi

back

2005-06-14T07:38:00.000-07:00

was a little swamped yesterday, but here i am now, tuesday morning, blue skies, a few white clouds, getting ready for work. thanks to those of you who went to Book Coolie and posted comments on my essay, Guest in the House of English. A few friends called these past few days to explain why they WON'T go to Book Coolie, or any blog, mine included. They're anti-blogs, still, and are astonished that i have a blog. So. To work now.
Tsipi

away

2005-06-10T09:50:00.000-07:00

will be away for a couple of days, hope to be back late sunday/early monday.
tsipi

non-bloggers friends

2005-06-09T10:02:00.000-07:00

so, my friends, all writers, came here once, wrote back, by email, to say, Wow!, but never bothered to write comment, and, for all I know, never came back. Blog-shy?
Anyway, for those who do come here, incognito, and want to read a short essay I wrote about Writing in a Language Not Your Own, please visit http://bookcoolie.blogspot.com/
where it will be posted, starting tomorrow.
Adios for now.

physical blogs

2005-06-08T11:11:00.000-07:00

In colorful dream last night, i visit various blogs, not virtual, but physical, like people's homes, and lots of bright colors, and feeling of party and enchantment. And on the reading side: Finished reading Lullaby/Palahniuk - didn't actually "finish" it, read the 1st half - very good - and 2nd half, as often happens, repetition of first, so skimmed the 2nd half to the predictable conclusion. Recommend Will Self to you, who is good from beginning to finish. You may also want to check out Ursula LeGuin's Unlocking the Air. Adios for now.

2005-06-07T14:49:00.000-07:00

hello again,
prepared a glorious list for you, but, to make long short, they allow you space of only 600 characters. So had to shorten the list and take out the author's name. If you want to know author's name, write to me. Also, with Thomas Bernhard, read all his books (except for his memoir) - you can't go wrong. Same goes for all of Samuel Beckett's novels (and plays), Jiri Weil (wrote only 2 great books as his life was cut short by the Nazis), Natalie Sarraute, Jean Rhys, Flannery O'Connor. Also, didn't have room for Cesare Pavese, Juan Goytisolo, Raymond Queneau, Flaubert's Bouvard & Pecuchet, Robert Pinget. Also, Ellen Miller's Like Being Killed, and Lisa Lerner's Just Like Beauty, and Jim Krusoe's Blood Lake.

the tsipi keller book blog: favorite books

2005-06-07T12:38:00.000-07:00

the tsipi keller book blog: favorite books

the tsipi keller book blog

2005-06-07T12:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.scripter.net/backpages/jackpot.htm

favorite books

2005-06-07T12:03:00.000-07:00

hello again,
prepared a glorious list for you, but, to make long short, they allow you space of only 600 characters. So had to shorten the list and take out the author's name. If you want to know author's name, write to me. Also, with Thomas Bernhard, read all his books (except for his memoir) - you can't go wrong. Same goes for all of Samuel Beckett's novels (and plays), Jiri Weil (wrote only 2 great books as his life was cut short by the Nazis), Nathalie Sarraute, Jean Rhys, Flannery O'Connor. Also, didn't have room for Cesare Pavese, Juan Goytisolo, Raymond Queneau, Flaubert's Bouvard & Pecuchet, Robert Pinget. Also, Ellen Miller's Like Being Killed, and Lisa Lerner's Just Like Beauty, and Jim Krusoe's Blood Lake.

couple of announcements

2005-06-06T10:39:00.000-07:00

First, thank-you to Jennifer for her commment re favorite books not listed. Well, i did write in the appropriate box: List too long, will mention favorites as I go along. But, apparently, the program didn't recognize it as answer. So, a list - long long list - will appear shortly.

My good friend and writer Roberta Allen asked me to post this for her:

Roberta Allen is offering a private 4 session Summer Writing Workshop in Chelsea.
Monday evenings 7:30 -10 PM, June 13, 27, July 11, 25.

"Roberta's exercises and insightful comments on my revised work help me discover what is most essential and true about my writing."
-Elizabeth Smith, Writer & Teacher,Brooklyn, NY

Roberta also teaches at New School University.
For info, email Roberta at roall@aol.com and visit her website
http://www.robertaallen.com

And my good friend and artist Helene Aylon asked me to tell you all that she has to move out of her artist studio by July-end. If any of you know of a studio she can rent - she is willing to share - please let her know. The studio must be in Manhattan. Her telephone: 212-924-4133. Thanks.

I moved to West Palm Beach thinking I'll have a nice quiet life - no such luck, but am not complaining.

till later, tsipi

Karen Kramer's new documentary

2005-06-05T10:22:00.000-07:00

Well, back sooner than I thought. Received email from filmmaker Karen Kramer regarding her new documentary, The Ballad of Greenwich Village. I saw it at a private screening and recommend it highly. Please visit her website to learn screening dates in NYC, and more:

www.balladofgreenwichvillage.com

finally doing it

2005-06-05T08:12:00.000-07:00

Morning, Sunday, June 5, and am dipping my fingers in blog waters. I hope to come here once a day, and, on rainy days, maybe more often. Will tell you mostly about the books I am reading, and, occasionally, may vent a little about absurdities, and/or tell you about a bird I saw, or a manatee, on my morning run. Friends, those of you who resisted blogging as I have until now, please reconsider. It's a platform, it's a promotional tool, and it's fun, too. I've said my word.
Tsipi