“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” —Aaron Copland “Literature—creative literature—unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.” —Gertrude Stein
Archive for March, 2010
Apocalypse Later: A Reading J.A. Tyler’s Inconceivable Wilson
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Inconceivable Wilson, J. A. Tyler on March 3, 2010 | 18 Comments »
SF Criticism Masterclass
Posted in Uncategorized on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is worth pointing out this: Class Leaders: Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Roz Kaveney Justina Robson The Science Fiction Foundation (SFF) will be holding the fourth annual Masterclass in sf criticism in 2010. Dates: 11th June to 13th June 2010 Location: Middlesex University, London (the Hendon Campus, nearest underground, Hendon). Delegate costs will be £180 per person, [...]
Big Other Reading Series, #9
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mel Bosworth, Scott McClanahan, The Chainsaw Guy on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mel Bosworth reads “The Chainsaw Guy,” by Scott McClanahan.
Calamari Press Liquidation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calamari Press on March 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Alas, I can’t make the splurge on the $150 “Shoot the Moon” package. But I would, if I were you and could. Click HERE for the sale. Safe journey, Derek!
For Those Whom God Has Blessed With Fingers: A Ken Sparling Novel
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, For Those Whom God Has Blessed With Fingers, Ken Sparling, Pedlar Press on March 2, 2010 | 6 Comments »
What is Ken Sparling up to? Why does the Toronto-based writer compose novels the way he does? His first, Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, had chapters and a story spiraling in many different directions, told by many different voices. For Those Whom God Has Blessed with Fingers from 2005 is one [...]
things I have been reading & things that need be read
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Things I am reading & Things I am reading the new issue of The Chapbook Review this LWOT panel deal Kim Parko’s Caketrain chapbook CURE ALL Chris Higgs’ THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MARVIN K. MOONEY
(In/Un)troducing Raymond Federman
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Raymond Federman, BlazeVOX, FC2, Aunt Rachel’s Fur, Return to Manure, The Carcasses: A Fable, Starcherone, The Voice in the Closet, My Body in Nine Parts, The Twilight of the Bums, George Chambers, T. Motley, SHHH: The Story of a Childhood, Chut, ted pelton on March 1, 2010 | 10 Comments »
If you have not encountered the work of the recently departed Raymond Federman (1928-2009) through his countless novels, poems, short pieces, surfictions, critifictions, and literary provocations, you haven’t really read, or unread, as the case may be. First step: find a copy of Double of Nothing: a real fictitious discourse (1971)—Federman’s debut. It’s a furious [...]