British poet Aidan Dun will be reading tonight, Friday, June 8 at 7:30 pm at Shakespeare and Sons Books in Malá Strana.

The Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann is best known for her poetry, but it is Die Radiofamilie, a collection of Bachmann’s writing, including scripts of radio plays that aired shortly after the conclusion of World War II on American sponsored radio stations in Austria and Germany, that is causing critical tongues to wag in recent days.

Now that summer is officially here, check out this group of poems for summer – slow reading for those long, hot afternoons.

Prague’s Microfestival of literature returns next week for its third installment – a week of readings and discussions in Czech and English from a number of Prague-based and international writers. Colophon talked to festival organizer Louis Armand about the purpose of the festival and its place on the Prague literary landscape.

With Kerouac fans in cold sweats about the upcoming film version of On the Road, your friendly blogger has decided a rundown of admirable portrayals of writers on the big screen is in order.

The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced and there are several pleasant surprises among the winners.

American writer Tony Rauch places himself squarely within the loosely defined genre of “Bizarro” fiction. His latest book, a collection of short stories entitled eyeballs growing all over me…again is a raucous ride from reality to the uncanny, often over the course of a single sentence. The Prague Post recently interviewed Rauch by email to get to the bottom of the Bizarro genre and probe the source of his twisted imagination.

The Prague Post recently reviewed The Ghosts of Europe by Anna Porter, finding it lacking in depth and conclusive arguments. Porter is certainly not the first author to try her pen at capturing the spirit of the Continent in writing. Here are a few selections from the work of poets, essayists and fiction writers who successful describe the genius loci of Europe in their era.

For readers who have facility with the Czech language, HOST has recently published an enjoyable anthology of the best Czech poems of 2010, a collection of poems gleaned from a number of books and journals. This 143 page anthology, expertly edited by Miloslav Topinka and Jakub Řehák, provides a cross section of contemporary Czech poetry.

After the success of Howl, in which he played Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, James Franco is set to direct and star in another film about an American poet. Franco has reportedly purchased the rights to The Broken Tower, based on Paul Mariani’s eponymous biography of Hart Crane.