This week brought news that Soundgarden is reuniting (and on the heels of the Johnny Cash mention in my last post), I present the weekend visitor of Big Other with “Rusty Cage” the original from Soundgarden, the cover by Johnny Cash
Archive for January, 2010
Side by Side #2
Posted in Uncategorized on January 9, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Brevity, Part 2: Long Takes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Clockwork Orange, Aleksandr Sokurov, Alfred Hitchcock, André Bazin, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andy Warhol, Anthony Burgess, Béla Tarr, Bullets Over Broadway, cinema, Colossal Youth, Conversazioni in Sicilia, Criterion Collection, Danièle Huillet's, Edie Sedgwick, Elio Vittorini, Funny Games, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Hollis Frampton, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jack Warden, Jean-Marie Straub, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Viterelli, John Cusack, Kuei-Mei Yang, Landscapes in the Mist, long take, Michael Haneke, Michael Snow, Michelangelo Antonioni, Miklós Jancsó, My Life as McDull, Nostalghia, Orson Welles, Pedro Costa, Peter Jackson, Red Psalm, Robert Altman, Rope, Russian Ark, Sean Astin, Shiang-chyi Chen, Sicilia!, Stalker, Stanley Kubrick, The Hole, The Lord of the Rings, The Mirror, The Passenger, The Player, The Shining, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Three Times, Toe Yuen, Touch of Evil, Trilogy The Weeping Meadow, Tsai Ming-Liang, Vinyl, Wavelength, Werckmeister Harmonies, Woody Allen on January 8, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Some of us have been discussing long takes in movies, and John mentioned that he’d like seeing a list of films that consist primarily of the beautiful things. So here is a start at such a list. (And here is another one, which like this list embeds many YouTube clips, such as the magnificent opening [...]
Life’s Currents Pulling Her Down, or Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth and So On: Heartless Bastards’s The Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Heartless Bastards, The Mountain on January 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As she climbed up the muddy mountain, Patti Smith rang in her ears. She could barely hear winter’s leftover birds. She was running, running away. If I could just quit tomorrow and tomorrow, she thought, I could be so happy. Running over the hills. Out to the whatever hereafter unknown. Sweet dreams. Concrete, tar, metal, and glass. She had left [...]
mlp sale ends 1.10.10
Posted in Uncategorized on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
pardon the brief self-serving interruption: the 2010 mud luscious press sale ends 1.10.10 all chapbooks are $2, all novel(la)s $10, & the mlp anthology is $13. want to gift yourself something nice in the new year? check it out.
Paula Fox – Desperate Characters
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Borrowed Finery, Desperate Characters, Paula Fox, The Coldest Winter, The Widow's Children on January 8, 2010 | 12 Comments »
I was fortunate enough to interview Paula Fox a few weeks ago for The Rumpus (it should be out in a few weeks or so). I just re-read her most acclaimed novel Desperate Characters, written in 1970. It moved me yet again. The beginning is simple. A childless couple live in a Brooklyn brownstone and the woman, Sophie, [...]
73.36
Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In case you missed my earlier posts, I’m applying to artist residencies this year, and posting about the experience. The number above is the amount I’ve spent applying to TWO residencies: I-Park and MacDowell. It breaks down thus:
Vocabulary Lesson
Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2010 | 5 Comments »
(This post was adapted from a piece developed for “The Rec Room Reads the Dictionary Aloud to You,” an installment of the monthly Chicago readings series The Rec Room which installment was curated by Big Other’s Jac Jemc). I will begin this Big Other post by administering a trivia question from the popular board game [...]
Super Lame!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ann Finger, Call Me Ahab, How Late It Was How Late, james Kelman on January 6, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Something about Adam’s “Brevity, Part 1″ of two days ago, which serves up Duras’s The Malady of Death, and Ryan’s punky post of yesterday has me thinking about things diseased, broken, and, ironically, totally fresh. Probably this is all related to the hunk of cancerous flesh a petite doctor took out of my arm this morning. [...]
“God is watching us, God is watching us, God is watching us…”
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Well, are we God now with facebook, blogs, websites and profiles galore? It seems in the writerly world lately criticism leveled at some person or practice is answered in a matter of days if not hours. Recent examples: Tom Bissell responding on this site. Howard Junker, editor of Zyzzyva responding to Lauren Becker about subscription offers. And [...]
Big Other’s Reading Series #1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eric Burke, Mel Bosworth on January 6, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Check out Mel Bosworth reading two pieces (text below) by Eric Burke whose work can also be found in elimae, Pank, Right Hand Pointing, Otoliths, and nibble, and forthcoming in A cappella Zoo and Heron. Find out more about Eric Burke HERE.
A (Brief) Guide to Exhibiting Your Punk-itude
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Over a year ago I was sitting in a hotel room, thinking I’d get some work done on the novel I’d been writing in a fever pitch. I’d spent the whole day thinking about an article I’d read once again proclaiming punk rock dead. I’d been hearing the sentiment for years, before I started a [...]
Brevity, Part 1: The Malady of Death
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brevity, Margeurite Duras, novel length, The Malady of Death on January 5, 2010 | 38 Comments »
The Grove Press edition of Margeurite Duras’s The Malady of Death (1982, English trans. 1986) is 64 pages long, and roughly 5000 words. It says “A Novel” on the front. At most, there are one-hundred words on any given page. At the time, Duras stood somewhat alone. But today it’s not uncommon to see novels [...]
Nerds Texting
Posted in Uncategorized on January 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
December 24, 2009: Me: Just bought “Prisoner of Love” by Jean Genet at barbaras books at ohaire airport b/c it was sitting randomly out on a shelf & i thought it was a sign. James Tadd Adcox (JTA): It almost certainly was. Me: I mean what the fuck is a genet book abt palestine doing [...]
Fartist Statement
Posted in Uncategorized on January 5, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Does anyone actually like composing artist statements? Or are they simply a necessary evil. They’re required for these residencies I’m applying to, and I find them maddeningly difficult to write, potentially quite misleading, and entirely beside the point.
Big Other Contest #3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Kamby Bolongo Mean River, Part of the World, Robert Lopez on January 4, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Win Robert Lopez’s Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River. All you have to do is write up to three sentences without any hyphens, apostrophes, quotation marks, or periods (the opposite of the “constraint” in Kamby Bolongo Mean River). The best entry will be picked by the Robert Lopez. Deadline: February 12, 2010 [...]
Getting Residency, Pt. II
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2010 | 16 Comments »
I’ll be applying to some artist residencies this year, and posting about the process. So far, I’ve created a list of programs that meet my two simple criteria: allow male writers and provide substantial, if not total, financial aid. (This is not meant to be a complete list—I decided to keep it relatively short rather [...]
Generous MFA Programs
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I know the time has basically just passed for application to most MFA programs, but I wanted to share this nonetheless, because I think it’s a great resource. Seattle writer Angela Jane Fountas has compiled a list of MFA programs she terms “generous with financial aid” – a good category, I think we can all [...]
Interview with Ken Sparling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Artistically Declined Press, Baby Leg, Blood Meridian, Brian Evenson, Cormac McCarthy, Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, Derek McCormack, Gordon Lish, Hush up and listen stinky poo butt, Ken Sparling, Knopf, New York Tyrant, Pas de Chance, Pedlar Press, Philip Larkin, Sean Lovelace, The Border Trilogy, The Haunted Hillbilly, The Quarterly, The Road on January 4, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Sean Lovelace interviews Ken Sparling for Big Other
Do you have siblings?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2010 | 24 Comments »
image source I learned recently that Peter Cole, editor of Keyhole, is the oldest of four boys! I find this fascinating! It makes total sense, doesn’t it? So tell me, do you have siblings? If so, how many? Where do you fit in that roundup? (I, alas, am an only. It is, yes, lonely. Sometimes.)
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