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ship free from powell’s today only

Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

in case you didn’t know: no shipping $ today from powell’s if you enter SHIPFREE as a coupon code. no minimum purchase. go get some stuff.

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Reading Rituals

Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2009 | 16 Comments »

I’ve always had moments of déjà-vu while reading, but over the last few months I’ve been having them more frequently. It’s not an unpleasant experience—on the contrary, it brings me closer to the text, makes me feel like we’re on familiar terms. It hits me like a moment of insight, the doubling of the words, [...]

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Genre Genre Genre

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 30, 2009 | 20 Comments »

I teach undergraduate and graduate writers. I read a lot of applicant writing samples, as writers apply to enter our grad program. Etc. More and more, I have seen the percentage of fantasy and fantasy/horror material greatly increase. It seems as the years pass, I am now getting about 25% of student writers who only [...]

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If I Had a Theory It Would Be About Books

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on November 30, 2009 | 14 Comments »

Ever read a book and loved it, then read the same book later (in a different edition, from a different publisher, etc.) and thought, hm, well, maybe not? I read the Future Tense Books chapbook PLEASE DON’T KILL THE FRESHMAN by Zoe Trope and was blown away. I loved its style, its pressure, its pinning-down [...]

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At the Sound of the Tone…

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on November 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »

What do you remember from things you’ve read? Oftentimes, I find that as little as a week or two after I read something, all I’m left with is the tone of a piece of writing, or the general feeling it called out in me while I was reading it. I’m a pretty slow reader, not [...]

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Writers of the Lost Art

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on November 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »

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A New Target

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 27, 2009 | 12 Comments »

Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post has trashed the movie version of The Road. And the fault lies with – the book’s author?? Yes, read below: Even with the momentary visual relief of flashbacks to an earlier happier life (featuring a lambent Charlize Theron), “The Road” finally resembles little more than a highfalutin’ zombie movie [...]

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Big Other Contributors’ News #5

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Lily Hoang will be reading in New York City on Dec. 2 with Uwem Akpan & Juan Felipe Herrera for the PEN celebration, titled “Crossing Over.” The reading will be followed by a panel discussion with Norton editor Brendan Curry & NBCC President Jane Ciabattari. This is happening at Housing Works Bookstore & Cafe, 126 [...]

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women on bicycles

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

this interview with paul auster from New York Magazine is hilarious. no other word for it. read it. tell me what you think… one day, i hope people read my books & ask me questions about how similar i am to my characters. oh paul auster: by the way, are you a pedophile, do you [...]

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Tom Drury Film!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on November 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Mediabistro just announced that David Lynch will be backing a movie made from a story Tom Drury published in the New Yorker.  As someone who loves Tom Drury, this is great news.  And as someone who loves Lynch, I’m hoping he chose to back the film because the director shares his diabolical vision.

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The Bat Segundo Show

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on November 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Here’s some news from The Bat Segundo Show. I’ve only listened to his interview with Brian Evenson but if this is any indication of the quality of his interviews, then they are all worth checking out.

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Rick Moody Twitter Fic

Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Next week I’ll be participating in an interesting project created by Electric Literature.  A few days ago, I received an email with the following: Electric Literature would like to invite you to be an official co-publisher of Rick Moody’s “Some Contemporary Characters,” a short story written expressly for Twitter. We want to break down the [...]

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Fuck Black Friday

Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »

You want some mud luscious press? Shoot me your address here & I will pop a free volume in the mail. I am thankful for readers, writers, & the like. Enjoy the holiday, J. A. Tyler www.aboutjatyler.com

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A New Story by Don DeLillo

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on November 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »

On occasion, The New Yorker gets it right. This time, it’s “Midnight in Dostoevsky,” a story by Don DeLillo. Lots of choice sentences here like this subtle observation of when reading becomes total absorption, how a book can metabolize you,  remake you in its own image: I placed the book on a table and opened [...]

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Are You Someone’s Favorite Writer?

Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

A number of years ago I was asked “Are you someone’s favorite person?” In a very short period of time this question–what surely could be best described as a meme–came up again and again in disparate contexts. Sometime later, I found out that Miranda July had released a video called “Are You the Favorite Person [...]

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The Compulsion to Collect makes “Novels”!

Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2009 | 14 Comments »

Books are difficult to write.  Long, uninterrupted projects are daunting to my hyper-mediated constitution.  To push forward I always need to feel that a goal is imminent.  So, I mentally separate my projects into series, or sets (with subsets), not unlike the Topps and Donruss baseball cards I once collected.[1] I write books as a [...]

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Hemingway Interview Yawn

Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Funny thing is how many think everything Hemingway is cliche, or known. I just re-read the Paris Review interview and these made me think. All bold print are Hemingway’s words. First I wrote “The Killers,” which I’d tried to write before and failed. Everybody my age had written a novel and I was still having [...]

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Best of the Decade: Music

Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2009 | 14 Comments »

Without apology I present the top ten albums (plus a few ties) of the first ten years of the 2000′s: 10: Gnarls Barkley: St. Elsewhere tied with: Sebastien Grainger: Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains

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what you read what i read, part ii

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »

because folks liked my last version of this, for your viewing pleasure, below are the books i read last week. it’s a pretty exciting list: 1. Patrik Ourednik’s Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century (Dalkey Archive, 2005): The twentieth century boiled down to painstakingly concise and shocking truths. No one is left unscathed [...]

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Cassavetes, for the Spirit and Dialogue

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on November 23, 2009 | 8 Comments »

John Cassavetes is still better known for being in The Dirty Dozen in 1967, Rosemary’s Baby the following year. But he used his acting fees from those movies to make his own. He wrote and directed nine films from 1959-1984 so fearless and individual (he is credited with three others but they were not from [...]

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