Shanghaiist: Pencil this: Life X 3, Lit Fest picks, Street Angels (1937)

Rebekah Pothaar

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:15:50 +0700

Also, LOVED JFK Miller's warning on urbanatomy ABC guide, about LIT FEST pests. From JFK Miller: Can you please, literally, shut up! A word of warning to Lit Fest pests… They stand up to ask a simple question and then proceed to spew acres of incoherent, self-obsessed mouthshit across the room. Who are these delusional imbeciles who attend the Shanghai literary festival each year? And why do they think we care? They’re like drunken tramps shouting in the middle of a street so that other audience members are too afraid to ask them to stop. Well, we’ll say it on their behalf: Ask your question and SIT. YOURSELF. DOWN. Nobody wants to hear your insufferably smug opinions about the re-birth of magic realism, least of all the visiting author. And while we’re at it, if you must rant on for 20 minutes then can you please have the decency to improve your oratory skills; at present you have all the elegance of a dog walking upstairs in high heels. The Lit Fest is not a platform for your insipid grandstanding, nor is it a spotlight to wallow in your own delusional sense of genius. And believe us when we say that everybody in the audience can see through your freshly tailored imperial vestments. Now please, for the love of Christ, sit down and button your piehole. *cue wild applause* Thanks, JFK, you made me laugh...

Rebekah Pothaar

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:42:08 +0700

Thanks Derek. I forgot to make mention of the Joe Stiglitz talk (not SILF related, but also interesting and at Three on the Bund on Sunday at 4:30pm,free entry). From City Weekend: Nobel Prize Winning Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979 and author of "Globalization and Our Discontent", as he gives a talk on "Stability with Growth for China and our World."

Derek Sandhaus

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:32:00 +0700

I thought these were some very helpful suggestions. Thanks for the heads up Rebekah.

David Perry

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:24:51 +0700

Thanks for adding some relevant information.

David Perry

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:14:02 +0700

Thanks for adding relevant info there.

David Perry

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:09:55 +0700

Wrong Zephyr Press link above. This one.

David Perry

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:04:54 +0700

Hey, it's okay to "hate poetry" (it hates you back). But don't you think you should at least mention some relevant information regarding Andrea Lingenfelter and Zhai Yongming? The latter is one of the most important female poets to emerge in China over the last 30 years, and Lingenfelter's translations will constitute the first major collection of her work to appear in English, courtesy of Zephyr Press, one of a handful of US presses regularly bringing quality Chinese literature to readers of English. That's the "buzz."