BIG OTHER

One more week before Big Other’s 3rd contest ends. Details HERE.

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Recently I’ve been culling the blogs I look at regularly, and adding some new ones. Refining my daily internet reading to create intellectual and creative clarity. The thing I find myself anticipating most each day is a new drawing from Renee French. If you’ve never seen her work, French is THE living master of graphite [...]

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I’d like you to pause for a moment and try to imagine beginning a review with this sentence: There are 15 or 20 better poets in America than Tony Hoagland, but few deliver more pure pleasure.

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If you’d like to review In This Alone Impulse, please send me your contact info, and your proposed review outlet, and I’ll get you a copy. Thank you.

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I am in the throes of a new story. And it’s been the most patient I’ve been with a story from inception on. Part of that is due to the intensity of the topic, etc. But that’s not really the point. As I’m getting close, or close-ish, to final revisions it has me thinking about [...]

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I went to school with a writer named Joanna Ruocco whose facility with language made me nervous and envious and happy. Everything she brought into workshop was wondrous and big-hearted and brilliant and funny and flawed in charmingly perfect ways. I’ve been meaning to write something about her book, The Mothering Coven, and I will [...]

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I’ve spent my last couple weeks reading short stories, novelettes, and novellas so that I can nominate for the Nebula and Hugo awards. This is my first year doing either, although I’ve been eligible to vote for the Nebulas for a couple of years now. I’ve made my nominations for short stories, novelettes, and novellas [...]

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AD Jameson commented recently that, upon encountering the literary theory of William Gass, fiction itself was opened up to him in a way it hadn’t been before. In other words, Gass’s thoughts about literature directly changed Jameson’s work. This made me wonder how many of us have had this experience, or something like it, and [...]

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…your top novels. Blindness, Jose Saramago, 1995 Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, 1985 Desperate Characters, Paula Fox, 1970 Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee, 1999 G, John Berger, 1972 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson, 1980 Light Years, James Salter, 1975 The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald, 1995 Stoner, John Williams, 1965

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Ryan W. Bradley has a story at Annalemma and a poem at WORK. Greg Gerke and Molly Gaudry have work in  KillAuthor. Paul Kincaid‘s review of two reworkings of tales from the Mabinogion is at Strange Horizons, and his review of The Rapture by Liz Jensen is at SF Site. John Madera reviewed John Haskell’s [...]

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There’s a brief interview with Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson in The Cleveland Plain Dealer. It’s the first he’s done since 1989. Interesting that this interview was published the week J.D. Salinger died. He doesn’t say much, but I’ve always been grateful that Watterson retired when he did. He never let himself have an [...]

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