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Archive for December, 2009

Writing & Smoking

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 [...]

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Got 7 Lines of Awesome?

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 [...]

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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, [...]

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From Annalemma:

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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What is appropriation, & when does it cross the line into plagiarism?

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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

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Why, Hello, Friend

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 [...]

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Why I Dig Dennis Cooper

..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. [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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Here’s a link to Publishing The Unpublishable, an incredible project that’s “edited” (although I would call it curated) by Kenneth Goldsmith. Goldsmith writes: What constitutes an unpublishable work? It could be many things: too long, too experimental, too dull; too exciting; it could be a work of juvenilia or a style you’ve long since discarded; it could [...]

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J.A. Tyler‘s book THE ZOO, A GOING has officially been contracted for publication with Dzanc Books, 2013. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Molly Gaudry has received four Pushcart Prize nominations this year! For “Beneath mosquito netting I imagine,” from PANK #3; “Parts,” from Whiskey Island Magazine; “Potpourri,” from Emprise Review; and “Excerpts from We Take Me Apart,” from Mud [...]

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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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