Check out this article from the NY Times asking whether “there [is] a difference in the way the brain takes in or absorbs information when it is presented electronically versus on paper? Does the reading experience change, from retention to comprehension, depending on the medium?” Alan Liu, English professor; Sandra Aamodt, author, “Welcome to Your Brain”; Maryanne Wolf, [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Does the Brain Like E-Books?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alan Lie, David Gelernter, E-books, Gloria Mark, Maryanne Wolf, Sandra Aamodt on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Edgar Allen Poe Gets Another Funeral!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Edgar Allen Poe, Funeral on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to Wikipedia, On October 10, 2009, Poe received a “do-over” funeral where “actors portraying Poe’s contemporaries and other long-dead writers and artists [paid] their respects, reading eulogies adapted from their writings about Poe”. The funeral included a replica of Poe’s casket and wax cadaver. Check out the video HERE.
Drawn and Quartered: On Gordon Lish’s The Quarterly, Part One
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Hempel, Amy Hempel, Diane DeSanders, Janet Kauffman, Pamela Schirmeister, Patty Marx, Peter Christopher, Robert Jones, Ansie Baird, Dan Duffy, J.S. Marcus, Jack Gilbert, James Laughlin, John Allman, Matthew Levine, William Freedman, Chris Spain, Darrell Spencer, Don Nace, E.J. Cullen, Gordon Lish, Harold Brodkey, Harvey Shapiro, Jane Smiley, Kaye Gibbons, Nancy Lemann, Pagan Kennedy, Paulette Jiles, Robert Gibb, The Quarterly, Tom Rayfiel, Tom Spanbauer, Yannick Murphy on October 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
What follows is a blow-by-blow account of the first issue of Gordon Lish’s legendary literary journal The Quarterly. Here I’ll examine stories by Amy Hempel, Tom Spanbauer, Matthew Levine, Chris Spain, Pamela Schirmeister, Yannick Murphy, J.S. Marcus, Darrell Spencer, Kaye Gibbons, Peter Christopher, Janet Kauffman, and Tom Rayfiel; a novella by Jane Smiley; poems by Paulette Jiles, Robert Gibb, John Allman, William Freedman, Jack Gilbert, Ansie Baird, Diane DeSanders, and Harvey Shapiro; and letters by Nancy Lemann, Pagan Kennedy, Harold Brodkey, James Laughlin, Amy Hempel, Patty Marx, Robert Jones, E.J. Cullen, and Dan Duffy; and drawings by Don Nace. I hope to eventually cover every single issue of this incredible journal.
More after the jump.
Run Forrest!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Stephen King on October 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Tennessee Williams liked to drink gin and take uppers and throw himself into bed “on the kindness of strangers.” But first he went for a swim. No matter what country/guest house/hotel he stayed in throughout his adult life, he demanded it have a pool. He swam every morning, then wrote, then, well, you know. Simone [...]
Upcoming Conference in NYC: “Beyond the Tangled Web”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Robinson, Audience Building, Conference, Staff management, Web Content Distribution, Web Development on October 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Via Adam Robinson: FACING PAGES 2009 Statewide Convening Beyond the Tangled Web: Envisioning a Comprehensive Technology Strategy for Your Literary Organization Friday, October 30th 2009, 9 am – 5 pm in New York City followed by wine & cheese reception 5:30 p.m. – 7 pm The day will include three panel discussions led by six [...]
American Poetry & The Contemporary Cartoon: From Robert Pinsky to Patrick the Starfish
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Family Guy, Poetry and Cartoons, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Simpsons on October 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Most of my time these days is seemingly spent reading, writing, grading papers, and commuting, so I tend not to have much time for TV but when I do watch TV, I tend to watch cartoons as I find they provide a certain freshness and criticality that is absent from most other TV shows, whether [...]
re: Molly Gaudry & Poe
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Poe on October 19, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I saw this just now, making rounds of the various blogs I try to frequent. I thought about posting it as a comment to Molly’s post about Poe, but thought it deserved as many viewers as possible, so check out this blogpost about some great illustrations from an old edition of Poe’s work.
Voices of possessed children
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Clairvoyance, Direct Voices, Glossolalia, Mediale Musik: Recordings Of Unseen Intelligences 1905-2007, Okkulte Stimmen, Paranormal Music, Paranormal Phenomena, Poltergeist Manifestations., Trance Speech, Xenoglossy on October 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Of course I believe in ghosts. There are ghosts of everything, of houses, clothes, animals, people. I can’t stop listening to this: Okkulte Stimmen – Mediale Musik: Recordings Of Unseen Intelligences 1905-2007. It’s a three-CD collection of audio documents of paranormal phenomena including trance speech, direct voices, clairvoyance, xenoglossy, glossolalia, paranormal music, “rappings” and other [...]
Reading a TINY version of a BIG book about a GIGANTIC whale
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Kindle, Moby Dick, Project Gutenberg, Stanza on October 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’ve never read Moby Dick. Nor have I ever read the electronic version of a full-length novel in its entirety – as a PDF, with a Kindle, an eBook reader – in any way. But I just moved into a house under construction and must leave everything packed in boxes and I’m traveling a lot [...]
Text Off the Page
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jenny Holzer, Joseph Kosuth, Karen Reimer on October 18, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Text that appears in places other than on a piece of paper basically makes me wet my pants. Maybe it’s because I look at paper all day long, so then when I find people writing on un-paper, or un-screen, to limit it even more, my eyeballs start salivating at the thought of a new surface. [...]
Big Other Contest #1
Posted in Uncategorized on October 18, 2009 | 49 Comments »
Write our slogan and win prizes and internet glory! The very short slogan will run at the top of the website’s pages underneath BIG OTHER. Enter as many times as you’d like. Just leave your entries in the comments page. Prizes so far: Gordon Lish’s Quarterly #2 (paperback); Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard [...]
Fuck the Semicolon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Punctuation, Vonnegut on October 17, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Vonnegut Reissue, so maybe he gets his due? He has his due, folks. Vonnegut’s house is near my house. His tiny child’s hand-print is still in the cement. Vonnegut never used a semicolon his entire life. Not one. Let’s all forget the semicolon, shall we?
Summer Reads, Fall Reads, Winter Reads
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2009 | 10 Comments »
With this change of season upon us, I’ve been inspired to write this post, which I’ll keep short and sweet. In the summer, I read romance novels. Every fall, I return to Poe. Question 1: Would anyone like to join me as I revisit some of my favorite Poe classics? Question 2: In the winter, [...]
Because I Was Flesh
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cesare Pavese, Charlie Patton, Crumb, Edward Dahlberg, Giorgio Manganelli, Kansas City, Luca Dipierro, Melville, Poe, Saul Steinberg on October 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I love the word OTHER, which in Italian is ALTRO. OTHER/ALTRO is what I am not, what is different from me, what I move toward and never reach. America, the idea of America, for me, grown up in Italy, has always been OTHER/ALTRO. Even now that I live in America, I am interested in an [...]
Dmitri Nabokov 1, Dying Wish 0
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Augustus, Brod, deathbed requests, Depp, Dickens, Dickinson, Kafka, Nabokov, Thompson, Virgil, Zumas on October 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Vladimir Nabokov made his wife promise to burn his unfinished last novel, The Original of Laura, upon his death. But the manuscript, written on 138 index cards, remained in a Swiss safe-deposit box for over three decades. His son and sole heir, Dmitri, 75, has finally decided to let the world have a look. Knopf [...]
Discussing the National Book Award Nominees, in which I Show Extreme Bias and Very Little Class
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged National Book Award Nominees on October 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The National Book Awards nominations were announced the other day, and here’s how it breaks down for fiction: American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips Far North by Marcel Theroux To be incredibly [...]
Recovery Project
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Erewhon, Horace Walpole, John Hawkes, Samuel Butler, The Castle of Otranto on October 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Hey Everybody! Much is being written on the cutting edge publications happening right now, but I’d like to produce a series of posts here that addresses texts from the past that I feel have been either lost or forgotten or ignored. My hope is that by resurrecting them they might inspire the contemporary generation. Obviously, [...]
Music As Children’s Lit: Flaming Lips
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Flaming Lips, Music As Children's Literature on October 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s only natural for us to begin to view the world in association with our environment. I still see the world in ways that relate to my past jobs, especially working on a construction crew in the Arctic. But for the last nineteen months or so I’ve been running a children’s bookstore. I could write [...]
Marathon or Sprint?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Craft, Gestation on October 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What’s the quickest you have ever created a piece you considered finished (a notorious word, so let’s say published, recorded, performed, painted and dried–uh, abandoned.)? Fourteen minutes, fourteen days, fourteen years? “The poem came whole and I changed no word. I sent it to the Atlantic Monthly at once.” Richard Eberhart “It took me 13 [...]
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