Comments on: A Literary Flyover

By: Tyler Gobble Interview: An Interview With a Gentleman and a Scholar | Creativity is fun

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:16:43 +0000

[...] Also, I was reminded of Roxane Gay (a Midwest gem!) and her essay about all the cool writers not from New York City: http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/21157/a-literary-fly-over.html [...]

By: Bo

Bo — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:13:16 +0000

Love how so many of these people are her friends.

By: Abraham Lincoln Loved a Good Shawl and Russell Crowe Sported a Monoface | I Have Become Accustomed To Rejection

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:00:38 +0000

[...] A literary flyover at Tin House. [...]

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:44:22 +0000

Terrific list, some favorite writers included here, and some new ones I’m excited to check out.

By: Bloomers At Large: Finding Their Way | Bloom

Bloomers At Large: Finding Their Way | Bloom — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:54:00 +0000

[...] New York’s most important living writers with a celebration of her own, in the form of “A Literary Flyover”: a “great sprawl” of writers from various regions forging unseen creative paths outside of [...]

By: You’re A Failure | Rewriting Life

You’re A Failure | Rewriting Life — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:05:12 +0000

[...] read this piece, A Literary Flyover by Roxane Gay, that reminded me how distorted our views are. It’s about how this notion that [...]

By: Philip Graham

Philip Graham — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 06:11:50 +0000

Well, there goes my Christmas money . . .
On the other hand, lots of great reading ahead. Thanks for so many tips!

By: Annonie Muss

Annonie Muss — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:19:20 +0000

“We tend to love rankings, ferreting out the best of everything.” Speak for yourself. There are few things in print that irritate me more than listicles. I don’t ever click on them intentionally, and I avoid shit-show sites like Flavorwire that publish them over and over again. I would never in a million years view one as representing “the best” of anything, and it bewilders me that people take them seriously in any capacity at all, let alone seriously enough to respond to in print. Listicles like the one you’re responding to here are very obviously (to me, at least) written by careerist tossers who inexplicably feel entitled to a readership despite not having anything interesting to say, and who are inexplicably utterly shameless about writing crap listicles for a living. It’s an extremely unimaginative format, and it also happens to be an utterly worthless one unless it’s coming from an author whose opinions you hold in high esteem. The opinions of some nobody-20- and 30-somethings who will write literally anything for a very small check and a byline are important to you? Just because they appeared in print someplace? I don’t get it. The most amusing part of all this is that the only people I ever see taking this stuff seriously are people who write similar crap for a living. It amuses me to no end that they seem to think that the general public, readers who aren’t trying to scrounge a living as freelancers, take it seriously too. Come on! It’s just a tawdry echo chamber mechanism whereby an endless stream of useless content that no one really wants is generated: one crap listicle begets another in response, so on and so forth.

By: Links: 24 Dec. 2012 | MonkeyMoonMachine

Links: 24 Dec. 2012 | MonkeyMoonMachine — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:29:10 +0000

[...] Writers who don’t live in NYC. Sometimes I wonder how living in a city with an actual literary culture would’ve affected my [...]

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:09:14 +0000

Coming from Park Slope, Brooklyn I did not expect to land among such literary riches here in Colorado: Bhanu Kapil, Anne Waldman, Selah Saterstrom, Laird Hunt, Dan Beachy-Quick, Elizabeth Robinson…