Mel Bosworth reads “What if I Told You I Lost the Baby Again,” by Christy Crutchfield.
Archive for March, 2010
Big Other Reading Series #10
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christy Crutchfield, Mel Bosworth on March 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Coll-ab-o-ration
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged collaboration, fanfic on March 9, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Sorry for not posting much, and the likelihood is that will continue–I normally don’t travel that frequently, but this year is hectic. (Relatedly, I will definitely be in New Orleans, Cocoa Beach, Chicago, Iowa City and Madison over the next few months in case anyone wants to meet up.) Anyway, I know there was a [...]
Brevity, part 7: Slow Motion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew & Lana Wachowski, Andy Warhol, Arthur Penn, Blake Edwards, Brian De Palma, Bullet-Time, David Lynch, Douglas Gordon, Dziga Vertov, Eadweard Muybridge, Erik Satie, Godfrey Reggio, Interpol, Jean Cocteau, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Vigo, John Woo, Joseph Cornell, Kar Wai Wong, Kenneth Anger, Martin Scorsese, Maya Deren, overcranking, Pixies, René Clair, Rouben Mamoulian, Sam Peckinpah, slow motion, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Macmillan, Time-Slice, undercranking, Velouria, Wes Anderson, Zack Snyder, zoopraxiscope on March 9, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Note: This post is partly a reply to a question someone asked me, back-channel, about slow motion, but also partly due to my general interest in how time works in narrative, and in brevity and stasis (and “the ongoing”). Slow motion is created by presenting film footage at a slower rate than it was shot [...]
Nisi Shawl & Cynthia Ward guest blogging at Booklife Now
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Booklife Now, Cynthia Ward, Jeff Vandermeer, Nisi Shawl, Writing the Other on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jeff VanderMeer’s Booklife Now blog has two very exciting guest writers this week–Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward. Nisi and Cynthia are the authors of Writing the Other, a practical text aimed at helping authors write characters unlike them. The book is an excellent teaching tool, full of practical advice, and supplemented with exercises. VanderMeer writes: [...]
Exactly What I Want: Art In Non Sequiturs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Non Sequiturs on March 8, 2010 | 11 Comments »
I find myself lost more frequently in recent days. Which is a poor excuse for not posting here as often as I’d like. I’m in the midst of a tiring job hunt, mounting work frustrations, and laboring at a story collection that feels like all my writing hopes are pinned to (and yes, I recognize [...]
Unattributed Quotes #1
Posted in Uncategorized on March 8, 2010 | 25 Comments »
“It is indeed becoming more and more difficult, even senseless, for me to write in official English. And more and more my own language appears to me like a veil that must be torn apart in order to get at the things, or the Nothingness, behind it. Grammar and Style–to me they seem to have [...]
Fantasy
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I was going to write a long response to Adam’s latest dyptych, but my ideas started spinning off tangentially, so I thought it best to just give in and put it down as a separate post. My attention was snagged by Adam referring to fantasy as a form of Romantic literature. (No, I know that’s [...]
Prose and …
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2010 | 13 Comments »
We talked, not so long ago, about poets who had also written novels. I was reminded of this today as I sorted through our poetry shelves and I realised how many works of poetry we had by writers normally recognised for their fiction: Peter Ackroyd, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, Alasdair Gray, Nikos [...]
The Dominant and the Longue Durée
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annales School, Ben Marcus, Bob Perelman, Brian McHale, Brom, Dick Tracy, fantasy, Fernand Braudel, Frank Frazetta, Jen Bervin, Ken Edwards, Language poetry, longue durée, Modernism, opera, parataxis, postmodernism, Roman Jakobson, Romanticism, Ron Silliman, Shakespeare, Shrek, sonnet, Stephen Moore, the dominant, The Lord of the Rings, The New Sentence, Ulysses, Wordsworth, Yury Tynyanov, Yvor Winters on March 6, 2010 | 23 Comments »
It’s a very familiar story: Romanticism began in 1798 and ended in 1900, when it was replaced by Modernism. …Although maybe it wasn’t replaced until 1901; it must have taken a while back then, in those days before cellular phones and email, to “get the memo,” as we say today. How long did it really [...]
Highlights from Artifice Magazine, Issue One
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Farkas, Artifice Magazine, Blake Butler, Carol Berg, Christopher Phelps, Cynthia Reeser, David Silverstein, Davis Schneiderman, Derek Phillips, Elisa Gabbert, Gregory Lawless, Jefferson Navicky, Jessica Bozek, Kathleen Rooney, Kelly Haramis, Kristine Snodgrass, Kyle Hemmings, Lance Olsen, Maureen Seaton, Neil de la Flor, Ori Fienberg, Roxane Gay, Susan Slaviero, Tim Jones-Yelvington, William Walsh on March 5, 2010 | 17 Comments »
It’s always nice to get a beautiful art object in the mail, and so I was happy to receive Artifice Magazine, Issue One with its classy satin cover and embossed title, and, more importantly (I soon learned), its content, content that mirrors the form in which it’s contained. Christopher Phelps’s “Word†” is a playful, reflexive piece, [...]
Big Other Contributors’ News, #15
Posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Mel Bosworth appeared on the Prick of the Spindle Podcast, and had a poem in the new edition of elimae. Ryan W. Bradley read an excerpt from my unpublished novella, Who Killed Owen Wilson? HERE as part of the first Orange Alert podcast. Greg Gerke‘s story “Chrissy Likes the Dolphins ” is at elimae. His interview with Paula Fox appeared at [...]
What do you want to be? Who are you? Now what do you want to be?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Albert Camus, John Gardner, Samuel Beckett, Susan Sontag on March 5, 2010 | 84 Comments »
Anne K. Yoder recently pointed out this Susan Sontag quote to me (it’s from the opening of her review of Camus’ notebooks, written in 1963): Great writers are either husbands or lovers. Some writers supply the solid virtues of a husband: reliability, intelligibility, generosity, decency. There are other writers in whom one prizes [...]
Introducing my new literary journal: Fuck Off And Die
Posted in Uncategorized on March 4, 2010 | 51 Comments »
Adam’s list of literary journals (no doubt already out of date) is testament to the astounding range of names people come up with for their journals–everything from the sober and literal to the smart and arty to the cute and cloying to the downright outrageous. Adding “Review” or “Quarterly” or “Literary” or any combination of [...]
Mad Hatters’ Review contest, judged by Cris Mazza
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged carol novack, cris mazza, mad hatters' review on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Check it out…. THE FIRST MHR KNOCK OUR HATS OFF CONTEST Mad Hatters’ Review will consider submissions in FICTION or POETRY commencing on MARCH 1ST, 2010 (12 a.m. USA EST) and ending on June 30th (11:59 p.m.).
Brian Evenson’s Baby Leg
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baby Leg, Brian Evenson, New York Tyrant on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Baby Leg, like last year’s Last Days, starts in medias res. Kraus: the protagonist, the wrong man and the man caught in the middle, is in a cabin alone. He is waiting for someone to come and kill him, though he doesn’t know who—his memory fails. Night after night, he dreams of a woman with [...]
Most Likely to Remain the Same
Posted in Uncategorized on March 4, 2010 | 12 Comments »
In anticipation of the Oscars, which I normally enjoy, but this year, have little interest in, I’ve been following “The Carpetbagger” blog on the New York Times website, trying to get it up. In the context of the Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier’s smear campaign against big budget movies, Avatar specifically, the blog interviewed Matt [...]
The *other* anxiety of influence
Posted in Uncategorized on March 3, 2010 | 72 Comments »
Man, there are a lot of smart writers out there! It seems like they just keep getting smarter. Better read, better educated, better schooled in the rich variety of literary theory. And more able, finally, to situate their own work within an historical continuum, to explain who they’ve been influenced by, and how their own [...]
Log(orrhea)
Posted in Uncategorized on March 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Madera’s reading list is longer than his hair. Go check out the inaugural post of John’s new monthly column at The Nervous Breakdown: A Reader’s Log(orrhea), where he reads circles around titles both new and old–J.A. Tyler gets some words, as do Joanna Howard, David Peak and Joyelle McSweeney–but throughout he leaves plenty of room [...]
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