In honor of Valentine’s Day I will name all of the books with sex scenes I can specifically recall in the next ten minutes, in the order in which they appear in my head: American Psycho – and then every other Bret Easton Ellis book! Anais Nin – Little Birds and Delta of Venus! The [...]
Archive for February, 2010
In Honor of Valentine’s Day: Sex!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Walking Man Press
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Experiment on February 11, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Over a few of these, a painter friend of mine, Matt Pinney (who would love to sell some work if any of you have cash and are interested), brought up Alberto Giacometti’s “Walking Man,” which recently sold at Sotheby’s for $104.3 million. Here’s a question posed by Matt: What’s keeping you from just writing a story or [...]
The Impending Holiday: In Which I Tell a Secret
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ted Kooser, Valentine's Day on February 11, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Every one knows Valentine’s Day is coming up. And no, I’m not talking about the movie. More than any other holiday, Valentine’s Day comes with a lot of baggage. More than a lot of people don’t really care for it. But I do. My big secret is that I’ve always been a romantic. Probably since [...]
All hail the ILLiad (not to be confused with that other Iliad)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aimee Parkison, Antonio Negri, Bernadette Mayer, David Foster Wallace, Frank Stanford, Gary Young, Gordon Lish, Helene Cixous, ILLiad, Jacques Roubaud, Janet Mitchell, Ken Sparling, Marilyn Hacker, Mark Halliday, Michael Hardt, Nina Shope, Peter Handke, Sara Greenslit, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Zachary Mason on February 11, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Do you know of ILLiad? It’s an interlibrary loan system from which I’ve recently requested and received the following books (that my own university library does not have): Gordon Lish’s Mourner at the Door and My Romance and Krupp’s Lulu Helene Cixous’s Coming to Writing and Other Essays Ken Sparling’s Dad says he saw you at the [...]
Marvin K. Mooney
Posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2010 | 69 Comments »
Did you know something was coming? …the complete works of… Did you see this? I know a secret (I think), check it out here (you really should), & there is talk of a collage / audio something something (believe it) Did I mention something is coming? …this is cryptic, keep on it… gogogogogogogogogogo
The Buzz hit…
Posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
What’s the writing on your wall?
Peter Schwartz’s OLD MEN, GIRLS, AND MONSTERS
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Achilles Chapbook Series, Old Men Girls and Monsters, Peter Schwartz on February 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Peter Schwartz’s chapbook, Old Men, Girls, and Monsters, is now available for purchase from the Achilles Chapbook Series. Check out the blurb action: “Restless and visceral — the poems in Old Men, Girls, and Monsters howl like prisoners in dark cages as they mutate one’s perception of reality from under their bandages and punctured-origami fragility. [...]
Women and Men
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ingmar Bergman, Mary Magdelene, Michelangelo Antonioni, Oscars, Terms of Endearment on February 10, 2010 | 36 Comments »
Kathryn Bigelow and her film The Hurt Locker are on tap to win Oscars and make history for becoming the first woman to win best director. The largest irony is that it would be for a film that is totally devoid of any significant female characters. It is a MAN’s film, a war film. [...]
Short story writer takes the long haul
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2010 | 27 Comments »
I’ve written dozens of short stories, but I’ve never completed a novel. Oh, I’ve ventured a few, but I’ve never seen them past 15,000 words. I’m just a short form writer. Poems? Easy to produce. Flash fiction? You got it. Short stories and novelettes? Now we’re talking months of time, but I can manage it. [...]
Big Other Reading Series #6
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lauren Becker, Mel Bosworth on February 10, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Mel Bosworth reads “The Girl,” by Lauren Becker.
Bob Brown and the Readies/Bibliomania for the masses
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged André Breton, Bob Brown, Craig Saper, Gertrude Stein, Gutenberg, Lake Forest College, Rice University Press, Studs Lonigan, The Readies on February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My humble bigother debut… Tomorrow, University of Central Florida Text/s and Technology Prof Craig Saper visits Lake Forest College. I’m psyched. His topic is Bob Brown, the largely unknown super-modernist-friend-of-GertrudeStein/pulp magnate/inventor of a future-feeling reading machine that startlingly predates/predicts the new media technologies that are unsettling the act of reading from its pre-Gutenberg roots. [...]
Side by Side #4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Born Ruffians, Grizzly Bear, Side by Side on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today I’ve been listening to a lot of Grizzly Bear. And Born Ruffians happen to do one of my favorite covers of all time of GB’s “Knife.” Enjoy
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Batman, Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Detective Comics, Dick Giordano, Frank Miller, Hergé, Klaus Janson, Lynne Varley, Ronin, scott mccloud, The Dark Knight Returns, Tintin, Understanding Comics, Watchmen, X-Men on February 8, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 Frank Miller released the sixth and last issue of Ronin in August 1984. Not everyone was sure what to make of the limited series, but Miller and his colorist, Lynn Varley, emerged from the project [...]
marilyn manson and the veil of veronica
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christianity, Domenico Fetti, Marilyn Manson, St. Veronica, Trismegistus on February 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Marilyn Manson, the musician, painted ‘Trismegistus’ (Thrice-Great) in 2004. See how it both draws on, and departs from, religious iconography (as evidenced by the painting below it).
New Big Other Contributor!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Davis Schneiderman on February 7, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Please welcome Davis Schneiderman to Big Other. Schneiderman is a multimedia artist and writer whose works include the current or forthcoming novels Drain (Triquarterly/Northwestern), Blank: a novel (Jaded Ibis), Multifesto: A Henri d’Mescan Reader (Spuyten Duyvil), DIS (BlazeVox) and Abecedarium (Chiasmus, w/Carlos Hernandez); the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game (Nebraska, [...]
The Lost Booker
Posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A short piece by Tobias Hill in the Guardian Review cleared up something I hadn’t quite realised about this curious Lost Booker enterprise. In case you missed it, someone has apparently noticed that a rule change for the Booker Prize in 1971 effectively meant that everything published in 1970 had no chance to be considered [...]
Fun stuff
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2010 | 7 Comments »
‘Fishing With John’ (John Lurie) was a short lived TV show on Bravo in the early 90′s. Tom Waits, Jarmusch, Dennis Hopper and Matt Dillon are in the other episodes.
Big as Life
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged doctorow on February 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Let’s start with an absence. Some years ago, we were in Berkeley, wandering from secondhand bookshop to secondhand bookshop. We had a good haul but, as always, there was one book I was looking for that I just couldn’t find. In one shop, as we chatted with the shopkeeper as he added up the damage, [...]
Some Thoughts on Agnès Varda’s “Vagabond”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Citizen Kane, Cléo from 5 to 7, formalism, French New Wave, Left Bank, Nouvelle Vague, Orson Welles, realism, Rive Gauche, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sans toi ni loit, The Beaches of Agnes, The Gleaners and I, Vagabond on February 5, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Vagabond (Sans toi ni loit), is a 1985 film by the Belgian director Agnès Varda. Varda was part of the French New Wave (with Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, Chabrol, and Rivette), although her first film predates that movement; some critics regard her as belonging more specifically to the simultaneous Rive Gauche (Left Bank) movement (alongside Alain [...]
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