So why are ‘genre’ writers more apt to make money from their writing? Is it simply because more people read sci-fi/speculative/horror/fantasy/romance? Is it ‘easier’ reading? Is is more difficult? Does it appeal because it is not about the daily (hum-drum?) life that has come to be associated with realistic fiction?
Archive for January, 2010
Tell us…
Posted in Uncategorized on January 20, 2010 | 33 Comments »
Video Two Ways.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ballet Mécanique, Mechanical Turk, poetry, Roderick Coover, speakertext, The Theory of Time Here, tool, video, Video Data Bank on January 20, 2010 | 5 Comments »
1. It’s been over a year since I first saw Roderick Coover’s video The Theory of Time Here (there’s a teeny video preview available; click the teeny blinking camcorder icon), created in collaboration with writer Deb Unferth. I still can’t get it out of my head. Footage of London traffic and passersby plays harmony to [...]
What did you do with your thesis?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2010 | 25 Comments »
As I wait patiently to hear back about comments on my MFA thesis, I am reminded about my BFA thesis. I’m not saying academia is even a way to go in writing, my favorite writer (and secret reader/editor) never finished the 8th grade and lives in a shack in the woods in Eugene, Oregon and [...]
Starting a Magazine, by Maryanne Mohanraj
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged magazine editing, Maryanne Mohanraj, payment issues, Strange Horizons on January 19, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Today, editor and publisher Sean Wallace, directs his readers to an editorial by Maryanne Mohanraj from 2001: So You Want to Start a Magazine. Since magazine pay rates are a current topic on this blog — and people on Roxane’s thread were specifically asking about how donation models work — it seemed like this article [...]
Writing/Drawing – what’s the difference?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2010 | 7 Comments »
As much as I hate to think of comics as a bifurcated process, in practice, the truth is that it is. Often you’re in writing mode, and then, at other times, in drawing mode. When you’re drawing, you listen to podcasts and music, and when you’re writing, you don’t. When you’re drawing, you look at [...]
Unpacking Post Heist
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2010 | 14 Comments »
According to at least a few recent articles on book heists — including Margo Rabb’s sassy NY Times essay “Steal These Books” and Jim Milliot’s newsy Publishers Weekly piece, “Attributor Study Finds Pervasive Online Book Piracy” — books are getting ripped off in increasing numbers, possibly due to recession. It all has me wondering about [...]
William Gass & Radiohead
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Radiohead, William Gass on January 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Below are examples of incomparable artists eviscerating, in an eerily similar way, our consumerist society, or, as bell hooks put it in Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, this “white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy” in which we live. First, William Gass from “Even if, by All the Oxen in the World” (Fiction and the Figures of Life, [...]
Writers Stew: Mangla vs. Gerke
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anton Chekhov, Corium Magazine, Gary Lutz, Greg Gerke, Ravi Mangla, Raymond Carver, Recommended Reading, Wigleaf on January 18, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Recently I sat down at my computer and had some exchanges with Ravi Mangla. Ravi lives Fairport, New York (near Rochester). His work has or will appear in Gargoyle, Annalemma, Sleepingfish and others. He created a site called Recommended Reading last May. Close to fifty writers have weighed in with lists and entertaining answers to Ravi’s questions. His [...]
ummm…?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2010 | 8 Comments »
who wants this? anyone?
the wolf and little red riding hood: a note about depiction
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fairy tales, genre, Gustave Doré, Tyler Garrison on January 18, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Below are two illustrations of the moment in “Little Red Riding Hood” when the heroine of the story first encounters the wolf. Both these illustrations are effective in that they reveal as much about the thematic concerns of the artists as they do about the story itself.
these are things you should be reading
Posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
sleeping fish 8 caketrain 7 unsaid v4.n1
What Is Your Writing Worth?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2010 | 136 Comments »
Finding ways to fairly compensate writers is a real challenge for independent publishers. At PANK, one of our primary goals this year or whenever it becomes realistic, is to be able to pay the writers who contribute to both our print and online issues. Achieving the means to do this, however, remains difficult, particularly given [...]
Collapse – A Documentary by Chris Smith
Posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s HERE at Videofeed. Just released, it’s a look at Michael Ruppert and how this former LA police officer has made it his business to know what exactly is going on in the world. Chris Smith (who was a film teacher of mine at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and made American Movie) shows Ruppert detailing the energy crisis, [...]
self-identified
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Artist Michael Asher, a pioneer of the Institutional Critique mode, defines art as this: Art is work done by artists. In contemporary time, when an art product cannot necessarily be defined by gallery space, temporality, means, or end, Asher’s definition is accommodating. I wonder whether you think the corollary is true of writing: Writing is [...]
Notes on Twee, part 1: Music Videos as School Plays
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aaron Stewart, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Bjork, Chris Robinson, Christian Palladino, Crash Test Dummies, Danielson, Darren Doane, Dave Meyers, Dwayne Carter, Fefe Dobson, HORSE The Band, Lil Wayne, Mastodon, Michel Gondry, Mike Maguire, MTV Movie Awards, Of Montreal, Panzervision, Patrick Daughters, Paul McGuigan, Roboshobo, Snow Patrol, The Avalanches, The Brothers Chaps, The Decemberists, The Max Fischer Players, The Shins, Tom Kuntz, Wes Anderson on January 15, 2010 | 11 Comments »
1993: Crash Test Dummies: “MMM MMM MMM MMM”, director unknown.
Literary Death Match Chicago Episode 4
Posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Last night I went to Opium Literary Death Match Chicago, Episode 4. Opium’s death matches are one of my favorite reading series, as the format ensures the event will be entertaining even if the “quality” of the readings — either the texts or their delivery — proves uneven (although last night’s readers all pretty much [...]
Big Other Contributors’ News #10
Posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ryan W. Bradley is co-publisher and editor at Artistically Declined Press. ADP’s first book, Hush Up And Listen Stinky Poo Butt by Ken Sparling (featuring a new preface by Derek McCormack, author of The Show That Smells and The Haunted Hillbilly) is now available for preorder. The book will ship by the last week of January! Click HERE to refresh yourself on [...]
Brevity, Part 4: Journal Titles
Posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2010 | 28 Comments »
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Authors
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John Madera
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John Dermot Woods
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Ryan W. Bradley
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Michael Leong
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Greg Gerke
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J. A. Tyler
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Stacy Muszynski
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A D Jameson
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Tim Jones-Yelvington
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Rachel Swirsky
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Edward Mullany
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Aya Karpinska
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Paul Kincaid
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davis schneiderman
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Amber Sparks
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Tim Horvath
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John Domini
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Elaine Castillo
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Curtis White
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Paula Bomer
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Andrew Taggart
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James Tadd Adcox
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Nick Francis Potter
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Brian Kubarycz
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Gabriel Blackwell
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Janey Smith
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Matty Byloos
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J/J Hastain
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Greg Hunter
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