Jim Hanas is releasing Cassingle, his second e-book collection of short stories, on Monday, November 16, 2009. A follow-up to 2007′s Single, Cassingle is a collection of five stories that originally appeared in McSweeney’s, Fence, Twelve Stories, and elsewhere. You can preview it HERE.
Archive for November, 2009
Jim Hanas Releases New e-Book
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cassingle, Jim Hanas, Single on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Astrophil Press Poetry Prize for First or Second Book of Poetry
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Astrophil Press, Eleni Sikelianos, The Astrophil Press Poetry Prize for First or Second Book of Poetry on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
JUDGE: Eleni Sikelianos The purpose of this prize is to make available a book of poetry from a new and exciting writer. We encourage all manner of poetry, but have particular interest in work that is adventurous, playful, insightful, and pushes boundaries of convention. The prize of a published book with distribution will be awarded [...]
Invisible cinema: 7 p., cuis., s. de b.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, essay, film, house, invisible cinema, Luca Dipierro, naked body on November 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
7 p., cuis., s. de b. … a saisir Agnès Varda directed this short in 1984. Sept pieces, cuisine, salle de bains …a saisir (Seven Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom …a Bargain) is a film about a house. It’s an essay, in the erratic sense of the word, about time and space. The camera moves in the rooms [...]
What’s In A Cover?
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was told once that to sell, to catch a person’s attention, a book cover should either have a person’s face or the color red. I heard this second-hand, and clearly it’s a broad statement, but it’s never far from my mind, especially when looking at books. I think it’s an entirely different ball game [...]
Persona Fiction or Not…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Charlie Brown, Michael Martone, Persona Fiction on November 10, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Frank Miller’s Charlie Brown I call them persona art. You enter an already established persona, and work from their viewpoint. I think the formula is PERSONA + WRITER = A THIRD THING. You aren’t trying to write of the celebrity/persona/entity, but rather through it. I am recalling a Sontag quote about not writing to find [...]
wittgenstein, emoticons, & the death of email
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Facebook, Html Giant, Wittgenstein on November 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
yesterday, i was schooled by my friend austin choi-fitzpatrick. apparently, email is dead. email is “so 2006.” according to choi-fitzpatrick (wtf? i’m citing him like he’s the fucking scholar he is), email had it’s heyday from 1996-2006. now, email is a dead form. for him, email is only his inbox: subject headings, nothing more. for [...]
BlazeVOX 2k9 Fall 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BlazeVOX on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The new issue of BlazeVOX’s e-journal is now up!
The Futurisms of American Poetry: A reading/performance event featuring Charles Bernstein and John Yau, 11/14
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Charles Bernstein, Chris Alexander, Defne Ayas, John Yau, Kristen Gallagher, Tan Lin on November 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »
For all you New York City folks, this looks like a fantastic event featuring Charles Bernstein and John Yau. With an introduction on Futurism in China by Performa Curator Defne Ayas. Introduction by Chris Alexander and Kristen Gallagher. Organized by Tan Lin. Museum of the Chinese in America 215 Centre Street (between Grand and Howard), New [...]
Discovery: VeRT
Posted in Uncategorized on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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WALLS (ANAMNESES) by Marcel Cohen, translated by Brian Evenson & Joanna Howard (Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail, 2009)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Black Square Editions, Brian Evenson, French Literature, Joanna Howard, John Yau, marcel cohen on November 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »
For the past few years, Black Square Editions, run by John Yau, has been putting out beautiful paperback books in translation such as Pierre Reverdy’s rollicking work of short fiction Haunted House (translated by John Ashbery) and Reverdy’s Prose Poems (translated by Ron Padgett). Its latest venture is Brian Evenson and Joanna Howard’s translation of Walls (Anamneses) [...]
Break Every Rule, Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrey Tarkovsky, AVA, Break Every Rule, Carole Maso, he American Woman in the Chinese Hat, James Joyce, Jean Luc Godard, Lyric Novel, Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Virginia Woolf on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whereas the first chapter of Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule (I wrote about it HERE) is a kind of travelogue where cities or towns in Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts, as well as in France, inspire reveries on home and language, the second chapter unfolds much differently. “Notes of a Lyric Artist [...]
PUSH (a novel) and Precious (the movie)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gabourey Sidibe, Lee Daniels, Mariah Carey, Mo'Nique, Oprah, Push, Sapphire, Tyler Perry on November 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This past August, I read Sapphire’s novel, Push. It is an incredible story–brutal, heartbreaking, and inspiring. More interesting and impressive, its prose is provocative and, toward the end of the novel, becomes highly stylized. Here is the first paragraph: I was left back when I was twelve because I had a baby for my fahver. [...]
An Electronic Literature Primer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brian Kim Stefans, Electronic Literature, Stephanie Strickland, The Dreamlife of Letters on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In “Born Digital,” poet Stephanie Strickland, a “poet in the forefront of the field explores what is—and is not—electronic literature.” When you’re there, be sure to check out the links to all sorts of incredible projects like Brian Kim Stefans’s “The Dreamlife of Letters.”
Hiding in Public.
Posted in Uncategorized on November 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Everything hits at once. I haven’t written a post here in a minute, because I was temporarily paralyzed by the effects of seeing the documentary We Live in Public. Nah. I’m lazy. I’ve been updating my facebook, but not saying anything of any length or substance anywhere. But really, if this movie is in a [...]
a single *blank* that kills
Posted in Uncategorized on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
tonight, one french horn destroyed an entire symphony, and not just any symphony: tchaikovsky 5. first movement was fine. i was pleasantly impressed. second movement: disaster. if you know the piece, it starts with this lovely melody given to the french horn. she played it like it was half-time in notre dame stadium: short, blasting, [...]
Big Anticipation
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009 | 18 Comments »
Quite possibly my most anticipated book of 2010 is Brady Udall’s The Lonely Polygamist, due in April. I’ve read Brady’s other two books, Letting Loose the Hounds (which is getting a sharp looking re-release in April as well) and The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint which is one of the funniest books I’ve read. I [...]
The Dreaded Q&A Session
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009 | 9 Comments »
When you give/attend a reading, what questions do you want to ask the writer? What questions do you actually ask the writer? What are the questions that make you wince?
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