I’ve been reading quite a bit of Anne Sexton lately, and I noticed that on the back of all my tattered, spine-taped copies of her books there is a photograph of the lovely woman smoking. Always smoking. She was a woman who enjoyed a cigarette, apparently. (And she wasn’t the only one. There is a [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Writing & Smoking
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anne Sexton on December 11, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Thomas Bernhard’s House – A Visit
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Thomas Bernhard, Thomas Bernhard's House on December 11, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Got 7 Lines of Awesome?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s pretty much my responsibility as namesake to spread the word about Opium Magazine’s 3rd round of the Shya Scanlon 7-line Story Contest. This one will be judged by Amy Hempel! (the first two were judged by Christopher Kennedy and Brian Evenson). The 7-line prose block form is a fun restriction to work in–roughly 100 [...]
Matthew Kirkpatrick’s “Light Without”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Light Without", Matthew Kirkpatrick, Web Conjunctions on December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Matthew Kirkpatrick has an inventively constructed story (“Light Without”) with some refractive and still oddly lyrical syntax at Web Conjunctions. Some choice bits: She feels best in dim light listening to her parents’ footsteps in the kitchen above invisibly tapping their toes to different silent beats. Her parents are always moving away from one another, [...]
From Annalemma:
Posted in Uncategorized on December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Jacked from the Annalemma blog: In the winter of 2007 editor, author, and activist Anne Elizabeth Moore was invited to live to Phnom Penh to teach Cambodian young women how to make zines. She plans to return December 24th to continue her ongoing project. We think this is awesome. We want to help her out [...]
Eliot’s Nocturnal Hackery (or, Moriarty in a Catsuit)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "The Final Problem", Captain John Smith, Lily Hoang, Macavity, Moriarty, Old Possum, opossum, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, T.S. Eliot on December 10, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Lily’s appropriation thread reminded me of something that I had been reminded of only yesterday (but had since already forgotten). Have you heard of the poet named T.S. Eliot? He apparently wrote a poem about a cat (of all things), and it contained some appropriation: Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macacity, There never was [...]
William Gass at The Millions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dana Goodyear, David Shields, Nick Flynn, Reif Larsen, Rosecrans Baldwin, Stephen Elliott, The Millions, Victor LaValle, William Gass on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
William Gass is included in the “A Year in Reading” feature at The Millions. He writes about Rose Macaulay’s Pleasure of Ruins. An excerpt: Macaulay does everything well, but scarcely does one of her pages pass than she has quoted from another and let those words fall into her own concoction like just the right [...]
Kirkus, we hardly knew ye. Or did we know ye too well? I forget. I’m feeling strange.
Posted in Uncategorized on December 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Kirkus Reviews in its prime. So Kirkus is closing. Is this the regrettable end of a venerable literary institution–a guiding light–or is this another happy blow to an elitist, canonical institution that will place greater power in the hands of smaller review venues and make way for the continued democratization of the written word? Or [...]
Farewell Luca DiPierro!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 60 WRITERS/60 PLACES, Big Other, Little Burn Films, Luca Dipierro, Michael Kimball on December 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Please join me in sending off Luca DiPierro who will be leaving Big Other. Luca’s leaving to concentrate more of his time on his writing, filmmaking, and painting. Luca’s film (in collaboration with Michael Kimball) 60 WRITERS/60 PLACES will premiere later this week in New York City. There are two screenings: Friday, December 11 at [...]
Appropriate Appropriation?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Appropriation, plagiarism on December 10, 2009 | 13 Comments »
What is appropriation, & when does it cross the line into plagiarism?
A New Big Other Contributor!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Danielle Adair, First Assignment, From JBAD: Lessons Learned, Les Figues Press, Models for a Building Block, P S Books on December 10, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Please help me welcome Danielle Adair to Big Other. Danielle is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. She is the author of From JBAD: Lessons Learned (Les Figues Press, 2009), and her chapbook Models for a Building Block is forthcoming from P S Books. Most recently, she has produced solo performance and exhibitions [...]
The Easter Rabbit Is Here!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Robinson, Caleb Stine, Christine Sajecki, Easter Rabbit, Graham Coreil-Allen, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, Joseph Young, Kathy Fahey, Lauren Boilini, Linda Franklin, Luca Dipierro, Magnolia Laurie, Nancy Murray, The Pants on December 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From Adam Robinson: Heya, Tis the season to celebrate the birth of Joseph Young’s first book, Easter Rabbit. The party is at the Hexagon, in Baltimore (1825 N Charles St) THIS SATURDAY NIGHT. It opens at 7pm, the show starts at 8:30. It’s free, and the book will be available at a discount. Before the [...]
Interview: James Kaelan of FMC
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A GOOD FALL, Aimee Bender, Alyssa Knickerbocker, Benjamin Percy, Brian Evenson, Californication, Christoper Robinson, Daniel Grandbois, Deena Drewis, Elijah Jenkins, Emma Straub, FIRST WINTER, Flatmancrooked, FLY-OVER STATE, George Saunders, Ha Jin, HyperLimited, J. David Stevens, James Kaelen, Kevin Best, Kevin Walsh, Matt Bell, Matthew Yost, N. A. Jong, NOT ABOUT VAMPIRES, NOT ABOUT VAMPIRES: An Anthology Concerning Everything Else, Rick Moody, Shya Scanlon, Stuart Dybek, THE ANTHOLOGY OF GREAT NEW WRITING DONE DURING AN ECONOMIC DEPRESSION, The Nervous Breakdown, The Zero Emission Book, Thomas McCafferty, WE'RE GETTING ON, WordHustler, YOUR RIGHTFUL HOME on December 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Yep, that’s right, had the wonderful opportunity to interview James Kaelan, managing editor of FLatmancrooked. Tons of good info, new news, & in-depth coverage - read more after the break
Why, Hello, Friend
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged friendship, reading on December 10, 2009 | 24 Comments »
It’s a small world, that’s for sure, and it’s inevitable that as writers, we get to know each other. We form friendships, etc. etc. Over at HTMLg, they’ve had discussions about friends publishing friends, which is a question worth exploring, but let’s not beat a tired horse. So I’ll reframe their question: How do you [...]
Why I Dig Dennis Cooper
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dennis Cooper on December 9, 2009 | 11 Comments »
..Hello all! I am excited to participate in the conversation here at Big Other. Thanks to John Madera & crew for inviting me. ~tim… Recently, I wrote a tiny reflection for my local activist rag AREA Chicago on the work of Dennis Cooper and (what I believe to be) its relevance for social justice activists. [...]
If You Like Avant-Garde British Cinema
Posted in Uncategorized on December 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One of my favorite presses, University of Minnesota, just released this new (potentially very interesting) book called Derek Jarman’s Angelic Conversations by Jim Ellis: Derek Jarman’s Angelic Conversations analyzes Jarman’s work—including his famous films Caravaggio, Jubilee, Edward II, Blue, and Sebastiane—in relation to his critiques of the government and his activism in the gay community, [...]
An Essay on William Gass’s “The Pedersen Kid”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Let Me Make a Snowman: John Gardner, Nick Ripatrazone, The Pedersen Kid, William Gass on December 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Check out “Let Me Make a Snowman: John Gardner, William Gass, and “The Pedersen Kid,’” an essay by Nick Ripatrazone that gives Gass’s famed novella a highly-scrutinized treatment and incorporates Gass and Gardner’s differing approaches to the understanding and writing of fiction. An excerpt: “The Pedersen Kid” is the genesis of William H. Gass’s canon. Composed [...]
A New Big Other Contributor!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Tim Jones-Yelvington on December 8, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Please welcome our new contributor Tim Jones-Yelvington. Tim lives and writes in Chicago. His work has appeared in Sleepingfish, Annalemma, Pank, Keyhole, Monkeybicycle and others. He works for Crossroads Fund, a foundation that supports grassroots community organizers and activists working on issues of social and economic justice. Visit him online HERE.
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