Big year. The world’s not over, that’s some pretty big news. Lots of words and sounds made me smile this year. I began writing all early-sketched notes on my phone. I have mixed feeling on this new process, but even the notes for this list began there. Reading for 2009: The Failure Six, by Shane [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Matt DeBenedictis’s Best of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Matt DeBenedictis on December 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Too Much Freedom
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Platinum Selling Grammy Winners I have, for better or worse, aligned myself with what is sometimes referred to as “slipstream” fiction. I don’t particularly like the term—it sounds kind of New Age-y, and brings to mind airbrushed silver dolphins leaping over a cloyingly pink moon—but it gets the point across: fiction which does not adhere [...]
DICKLUNG & THE INSURGENT
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blatt Books, DICKLUNG & OTHERS, noah cicero, THE INSURGENT, travis jeppesen on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blatt has new books: DICKLUNG & OTHERS by travis jeppesen THE INSURGENT by noah cicero I don’t have a full-blown review to post here, suffice it to say that I really enjoyed both of these & I think Blatt Books is a good place to keep on the list of indies you want to pilfer [...]
new interview site: ten everywhere
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
a unique & interesting format for interviews. conversations already posted with shane jones & emma straub. read up on ten everywhere here.
Do You Reread?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2009 | 40 Comments »
Because increasingly, I don’t. And I feel sort of, I don’t know, bad about this. But then rereading itself also seems somehow indulgent, when my “to read” list grows ever longer, and I realize that I still haven’t gotten to books I intended to read a year ago. I don’t know what I feel so [...]
Alphabet Updated With 15 Exciting New Replacement Letters
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alphabet on December 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
NEW YORK—Dynamic, sleek, and even sexy is how a panel of typographic and marketing experts described the 15 new replacement letters they unveiled Monday in an effort to reinvigorate interest in the faltering English alphabet.
CW Tip: The First Day of Class.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Creative Writing first day of class, Fabio, Fictional Dream, How to teach Creative Writing, Nard on December 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
You love roller coasters, especially the Flaming Death Nard. On the way to the amusement park, you stop to get gas and immediately win the lottery. You are worth 100 million dollars, you lucky fuck. You want to build your own roller coaster now, in your backyard. You pay to close the park and bring [...]
Herta Müller’s Nobel Lecture
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Herta Müller on December 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Herta Müller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 delivered her lecture on December 7, 2009. Here’s an excerpt:
Eugene Lim’s Best of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eugene Lim on December 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
TOP THREE FOR OH NINE: My favorite book [besides Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY and Joanna Ruocco's THE MOTHERING COVEN] was probably Jennifer Moxley’s CLAMPDOWN. a surprise to me, Moxley is less a wild innovator than a poet who seems perfectly in tune with our current moment. Not that she’s merely fashionable but just that these poems [...]
Farewell Kim!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged elimae, Kim Chinquee on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kim Chinquee has left Big Other to concentrate more on the many different plates she has spinning in the air. I can’t wait to see elimae’s first issue in January with her editing the prose and poetry. Thanks Kim!
Ravi Mangla’s Best of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Everyday Genius, FRiGG, Necessary Fiction, Ravi Mangla, Smokelong Quarterly, The Collagist on December 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am constantly amazed by the dedication and innovative spirit of the online publishing community. There has been a glut of great web writing this year and I wanted to spotlight a few of my favorite issues of online journals. SmokeLong Quarterly, Issue 26: This is one of the strongest and most diverse SLQ issues [...]
Tina May Hall’s Best of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged John M. Carrera, Maira Kalman, Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities, Satoshi Kitamura, The Principles of Uncertainty, When Sheep Cannot Sleep: The Counting Book on December 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My Favorite Picture Books of 2009 The Principles of Uncertainty, by Maira Kalman This book makes me very happy. Especially when paired with a cup of tea and a chocolate cookie.
Dan Wickett’s Best of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Avett Brothers, Big Bang Theory, Chopped, Dan Wickett, Dzanc Books, Fringe, Hesh Kestin, Jim Jarmusch, Joe Henry, Laura van den Berg, Matt Bell, NUMB3RS, Paramore, Sons of Anarchy, Steven Gillis, The Limits of Control, Top Chef on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First on my list for Best of 2009 would have to be seeing each of my three kids take another solid step forward with their lives, each maturing a bit, taking on different responsibilities than they had in previous years, etc.
Video Games and Mythology
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged &Now, David Peak, Matt Bell, Video Games on December 14, 2009 | 12 Comments »
There is a very interesting conversation happening in a comment thread on David Peak’s blog about video games, mythology, nostalgia and personal narrative. In particular, I liked this comment of Matt Bell’s: I was on a panel on “derived stories” at &Now and read my Super Mario Bros. story that was in Barrelhouse a few [...]
Letterpress
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aardvark Letterpress on December 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Next time you need something printed in SoCal… Aardvark Letterpress: this place is like a mini museum. I stumbled upon it a few blocks from my apartment this weekend. In the words of Richard Harrison, “MacArthur’s Park”.
Collaborations
Posted in Uncategorized on December 14, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I just saw this: And thought of this: What kinds of collaborations are you involved in these days?
Musicians You’ve Likely Never Heard
Posted in Uncategorized on December 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, my friend Rachel Swirsky introduced me to an excellent musician named Gabriel Kahane. I am a big fan of singer-songwriter-composer-types who work within a “new music” or “contemporary composition” or “art song” framework, and/or who are heavily influenced by “new music,” etc, but also by pop and rock. Kahane is this sort of artist. [...]
What Makes You Guilty?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 14, 2009 | 24 Comments »
I have a collection with me at work today called 6 Israeli Novellas. I’m itching to read Benjamin Tammuz’ contribution, but it’s the penultimate work in the collection. The point here? I feel incredibly guilty about skipping around in books. Poetry collections, anthologies, even the damn dictionary. I know this has more to do with [...]
us versus them
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged class, gender, race, us v. them on December 14, 2009 | 8 Comments »
in my previous post, tim jones-yelvington brought up this important point (somewhere along the comment stream) about this us v. them dichotomy: “my kind of writer” or not, with us or against us, etc etc. this is important because this isn’t just an “innovative” v. “traditional” writer question. even within our little world, small though [...]
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