In this interview with Der Spiegel, Umberto Eco talks about an exhibition he’s curating at the Louvre. It’s all about…
Break Every Rule, Part 3
It’s easy to fool yourself into thinking that city life is superior to smaller town life, to rural life. In…
Justin Sirois answers all the questions
Guest post by GINNY PARKER WOODS: I read Justin Sirois’s book MLKNG SCKLS (Publishing Genius) last week on the subway,…
Drunk Sonnet Interview
I interview Daniel Bailey about his DRUNK SONNETS. I think his book and its creation (all poems written while drunk)…
Telling Stories: An Anthology?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about stories that tell and don’t show. Guided by Leah Stewart (author of The…
It’s nearly December: Oh, Woe Is I*
* (One of my favorite grammar books is Patricia T. O’Connor’s Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English…
Recovery Project (3) Ron Silliman – The New Sentence (1977)
The qualities of the new sentence: 1) The paragraph organizes the sentences; 2) The paragraph is a unit of quantity,…
Side by Side: An Examination of a Different Type of Cover
The “cover” song is a widespread phenomenon in the world of music, and one that not too many people are…
Big Other Contributors’ News #3
If you are in Baltimore on Friday, November 13, Creative Alliance Moviemakers (CAMM) will screen Dear Everybody, a short film…
Jim Hanas Releases New e-Book
Jim Hanas is releasing Cassingle, his second e-book collection of short stories, on Monday, November 16, 2009. A follow-up to…