Best Novella Tina May Hall’s All The Day’s Sad Stories I’m not sure if this came out in 2009 but I read it in 2009 and while I’ve read many brilliant things this year, nothing has moved me more than this book. I loved it so much, I wanted to stop writing for a while [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Roxane Gay’s Best of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Roxane Gay on December 20, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Tell us…
Posted in Uncategorized on December 20, 2009 | 31 Comments »
What was the most you ever revised a story, poem or essay that went on to be published? What did it look like to begin with? What did it become? How did you ‘see the light’ about where to take it?
My Four Favorite New Books of 2009: #4: Jeremy M. Davies’s Rose Alley
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cigarettes, Counterpath Press, Dalkey Archive Press, Harry Mathews, Jeremy M. Davies, John Dryden, Lily Hoang, London, May 1968, Paris, Rose Alley, The Decameron, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium on December 19, 2009 | 11 Comments »
#1 | #2 | #3 #4. Rose Alley by Jeremy M. Davies (Counterpath Press, 2009)
Don’t quit your day job, eh?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2009 | 65 Comments »
I’ve often wished I had a generous benefactress who would financially support my writing habit. Alas, as this is not the case, I work. These days I teach. In the spring I will return again to teaching adults, although I will also have one class of college freshmen. Previously, I taught the GED to post-incarcerated [...]
In the words of Madonna as Evita: You must love me.
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2009 | 22 Comments »
I’m thinking this morning about rejection. When it stings, and why, because at this point, I’m aware that it stings considerably less than it used to, way back when I was writing my best Raymond Carver knockoffs and stuffing them in envelopes with sweaty paws and sending them off to imaginary places like The Paris [...]
Flatmancrooked and Big Other!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Flatmancrooked on December 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m happy to announce that, starting next year, our content partnership will begin with Flatmancrooked. What that means is that Flatmancrooked will share content from Big Other on its two main blogs: Industry and High Horse. It’s all about the community!
Kinesthetic Texts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Young-Hae Chang on December 18, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Young-Hae Chang made THIS and THIS. And she makes more like it HERE.
A (Free) Tip for Interviewers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hemingway, Joyce, Kafka on December 18, 2009 | 18 Comments »
I know, everyone’s all like “where’s Ryan’s best of 2009 list” and frankly I’m way ahead of you. And by ahead of you, I mean next week. And by next week I mean, maybe. The other day I found a t-shirt I thought I had lost six months ago in the trunk of my car. [...]
Top Films of the Decade
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke, Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, Todd Field on December 18, 2009 | 31 Comments »
Robert Altman and a happy Shelley Duvall before she met Kubrick In March 2002 I woke up one morning in a trailer in the south of France, near the city of Carpentras. I worked on a fully organic farm (nothing mechanical, horse-drawn tills). There were no entertainment devices, save a transistor radio that picked up [...]
quick update: Dzanc Write-a-thon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dzanc Write-a-thon on December 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
today is the day, prompt received from Dzanc & writing has begun. this is a 24hr. push for me, so there is still plenty of time to give (even $1). go here to see the growing word list for my piece & all the other details. thanks BigOther for helping spread the word.
A New Big Other Contributor!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Matt Bell has signed on to join Big Other and will begin posting in the new year. As Aaron Burch mentioned here, Matt has a lot of plates spinning like his prolific writing, editing The Collagist, keeping up his own blog, and contributing to Html Giant. I’m psyched to see what he’s going to bring [...]
Thirty Words Is a World
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Joseph Young, Michael Kimball on December 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Michael Kimball and Joseph Young talk about words. Thirty of them. These words from Young’s Easter Rabbit: Eleven As she read essays, she plaited one side of her hair. You’d last forever, he said, up from his puzzle. The green light of some vehicle tracked across the ceiling. I love the kind of obsessive attention [...]
Justin Sirois’s Best of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Justin Sirois on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Justin Sirois is founder and codirector of Narrow House, an experimental writing publishing collective. He received Maryland State Art Council grants for poetry in 2003 and 2007. His books include Secondary Sound (BlazeVOX Books) and MLKNG SCKLS (Publishing Genius). Currently, Justin is trying to find a publisher for his first novel written in collaboration with [...]
Post-It
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Patient H M on December 18, 2009 | 10 Comments »
In college I learned about Patient H M. Two Fridays ago I watched his brain be dissected. Patient H M, who, in his twenties, lost his ability to form memories, died this December 1st. His brain was immediately flown across the country to a lab of research students ready to undertake what amounted to a [...]
Mel Bosworth’s Best of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mel Bosworth on December 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Best Movie: District 9. I think I only went to see 2 movies in 2009 and District 9 was one of them. The other was Inglorious Basterds. I’ve gotten bad about going to the movies. I used to catch all of the Oscar contenders in the theater, and all the arty farty films that win [...]
Catherine Lacey’s Best of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Catherine Lacey on December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Books: I probably only read 10 contemporary books in 2009 but of those, Bluets by Maggie Nelson was the best, most inventive thing I read. Bodies by Susie Orbach was also pretty good.
The wily best cited in 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Best of 2009. A best is a wily creature indeed. As surprising as Sasquatch or even a hummingbird, a Northern Cardinal, a new bud burst and clinging simple to its branch at the kitchen window. And as difficult to trap and keep. Impossible to tame. Perhaps that’s why citing a best is as thrilling as it is…. The chase [...]
Unlisted
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2009 | 11 Comments »
My gift to you. Have you been reading list after list of people’s “Best of 2009″, dismayed to find your name and title of your book or story or poem or essay or anything damn thing you’ve done entirely and everywhere absent from said lists? I am hereby offering my services. I’m putting together my [...]
Big Other Contributors’ News #8
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "We Are Mired In a Kind of Stalemate", "You've Probably Read This Before", Brooklyn Rail, Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, Dan Graham, Dear Everybody, Joanna Howard, Ken Sparling, Michael Kimball, On the Winding Stair, The Collagist, Word Riot on December 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Lily Hoang is a new contributor to Html Giant. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Shya Scanlon will be reading on Sunday, December 20, 2009 in Brooklyn at 440 Gallery, with two other writers Scott Geiger and Micaela Morrissette (a senior editor at Conjunctions). Here’s a link to the details. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… J.A. Tyler‘s fiction has appeared recently in these fine [...]
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