Do you actively try to align your metaphors and similes with the general themes of your text? Or do you simply try to write what seems to you to be “the best” metaphor/simile you can think of at any given time. For instance, if you’re writing a story/poem about animal husbandry, and you’re talking about [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Alignment
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2010 | 36 Comments »
The Dull King
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2010 | 32 Comments »
“David Foster Wallace is very good at becoming the whole of boredom.” –Page 33, How Fiction Works, James Woods
kandinsky’s horse
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 'Concerning the Spiritual in Art', Der Blaue Reiter, The Blue Rider, Vasily Kandinsky on January 22, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Here are two paintings from different stages in the career of Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944), the Russian-born painter considered a pioneer of abstract art. He is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Riding Rantipole Into Blind Cupid.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, slash, Victorian Slang on January 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I am writing some Mad Hatter-March Hare slash, which I fully intend to parade past every respectable magazine I can find when I finish. Among the delights of this project, of which there are many, I have been having an excellent time looking up bizarre old-fashioned misconceptions, sifting through internet answers to why ravens resemble [...]
Big Other Contributors’ News, #11
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2010 | 9 Comments »
John Dermot Woods will be reading fiction and showing comics at Freebird books in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, Sunday, January 24, 2010. Info HERE. FRiGG’s “Law and Order”-themed Winter issue will go live any day now, and will feature a story by Tim Jones-Yelvington. Tim’s writing is also available (and can be ordered) in recent print [...]
Look at this fucking writer: Roxane Gay
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Look at this fucking writer, Roxane Gay on January 22, 2010 | 11 Comments »
When my youngest brother was born (he has since been known as The Baby, even until today), my other brother and I had, after years of bickering reached a certain accord because we were in mutual agreement that a third child was not needed. We implored my parents to give The Baby back to wherever he had come from, [...]
Look at this fucking writer: Mel Bosworth
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Look at this fucking writer, me in a bucket, Mel Bosworth on January 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
When I was a kid I liked to sit in a bucket while holding a bucket. And I was really blond too. Lots of sunshine. There was no interweb or videogames and there wasn’t much on TV so I’d play outside and when it rained I’d go inside and when it stopped raining I’d go [...]
Shuck by Daniel Allen Cox
Posted in Uncategorized on January 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The weekend before last, I impulsively purchased Daniel Allen Cox’s Shuck at Women and Children First, Chicago’s feminist bookstore and employer of Big Other contributor Jac Jemc. Shuck caught my interest as one of several books in Women and Children First’s gay and lesbian fiction section published by Arsenal Pulp Press, a press with which [...]
Look at this fucking writer: Jac Jemc
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jac Jemc, Look at this fucking writer on January 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’m the confused blonde kid and my current roommate is the adorable munchkin who actually knows the dance we’re supposed to be doing. In my defense, someone’s maraca had broken down the stage and was spilling beans all over and I was very concerned for everyone’s safety. That was my last dance recital. * * * [...]
Things Writers Hate
Posted in Uncategorized on January 21, 2010 | 27 Comments »
The “blog to book” phenomenon that has been going on for the last couple years is obviously at this point no longer funny–it has become normal, like most signs of the apocalypse. So the announcement of a book deal for the blog “Things Hipsters Hate” wouldn’t have caught my eye were it not for the [...]
Brevity, Part 5: Roundhay Garden Scene
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Crossing Leeds Bridge, Ion Martea, Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, Roundhay Garden Scene on January 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »
This is Roundhay Garden Scene, the oldest surviving movie shot on film:
Look at this fucking writer: J. A. Tyler
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged J. A. Tyler, Look at this fucking writer on January 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Jesus Christ. * * * Want to be a part of “Look at this fucking writer”? Send a childhood photo and caption to molly.gaudry@gmail.com.
Look at this fucking writer: Jamie Iredell
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged jamie iredell, Look at this fucking writer on January 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I think this is a photo from the first grade. My teacher was Mrs. McLaughlin. She lived around the corner from me and my family. There was a bus that bussed me into school. At school, there were mostly Mexicans that did not take busses. This was the opposite thing of what happened to little [...]
Look at this fucking writer: Molly Gaudry
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Look at this fucking writer, Molly Gaudry on January 20, 2010 | 7 Comments »
My folks like to tell the story about when we went to Disney and searched all over for Minnie Mouse. When we finally found her in the late afternoon, my father tried to take the picture but I kept craning my neck to see behind Minnie. Later, when asked why I wouldn’t pose for the [...]
Look at this fucking writer: Shya Scanlon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Look at this fucking writer, Shya Scanlon on January 20, 2010 | 11 Comments »
In fourth grade, one of my best friends was a girl named Thea. I didn’t have consciously romantic feelings for her, but when she began to hold hands with a new kid at school named Jeremy, I purposefully fell down during a game of touch football at recess, and pretended to have twisted my ankle so I’d have a [...]
This Will Probably Incite a Riot
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Avatar, James Cameron, Undeserved Praise on January 20, 2010 | 57 Comments »
Since Sunday night I’ve planned to write a scathing post about the Golden Globes, a once “renegade” award platform, that gets a little closer to being Oscar Jr. every year. But now it’s Wednesday, and Sunday seems like forever ago, and people probably don’t care. Instead of going into depth I’m going to complain about [...]
There’s someone I’d like you to meet.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 20, 2010 | 23 Comments »
There are all kinds of reasons to introduce two people. Maybe they would get along. Maybe they would have an interesting debate. Maybe they would fuck. Sometimes while I’m reading, I have a powerful desire to introduce the author to another author for some reason. Most recently, while reading John Haskell’s Out of My Skin, I [...]
Up for some collaboration?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 20, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Inspired by Blake’s post at HTMLGIANT, I’d like to encourage you to write a short story–it could be, you know, very short–and send it to me. I will put my name on it and submit it as my own. If it’s published, I will send in a bio calling the work “collaborative.”
Long/Lost Loves
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged influences, interview, memory, Paris Review, unreadable on January 20, 2010 | 25 Comments »
I’m sort of nibbling through this four-volume set of Paris Review interviews, a Christmas gift from my sister–a few pages while I wait for water to boil, a few more when I’m making a lesson plan, etc. One of the biggest things I miss about living in NYC is subway-reading, and these interviews would be [...]
A New Big Other Contributor!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aya Karpińska on January 20, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Please welcome our new contributor Aya Karpińska. Aya writes in digital media and is the creator of Shadows Never Sleep, one of the first literary iPhone apps. Aya has Master’s degrees in Interactive Telecommunications (New York University) and Literary Arts (Brown University). She lives in New York City. Visit her HERE. And check out her first post “Video Two Ways” HERE.
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