To my subscribers: I’ve been working on a few essays. One of them is, in fact, already out at The Republic of Letters. Go have a read. Otherwise, I’m soon to be pitching some book reviews and pieces elsewhere. By the way, The Insufferable B******s is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Enjoy! Episode the 2nd Though we had a different recording ready to go, Alanna and I quickly got together for an emergency episode regarding yet another literary A.I. scandal. This one involves UK fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar, which awarded Kavyta Kay a prize for her story Back and Forth. We also discuss prize judge Ruth Ozeki, gatekeeping, the 86 (!) countries in which we have listeners, poetry, Jamaica Kincaid, Joseph O’Neill. Also Derek Walcott, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, curry leaves, the diaspora, Kenneth Koch, more culture pots, wood damp and trousers, school bullying, teaching in prison, the PEN America Prison and Justice Writing Program, cricket, Jewishness, Lawn Guyland, The Tenants by Bernard Malamud, A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid, I Married a Communist by Philip Roth, The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick, Gina Berriault, memento mori, “Ode to my Twenties” by Kenneth Koch. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to The Literarian Gazette at tliterarian.substack.com/subscribe
