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Archive for April, 2010
Guest Post: Chris Heavener: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Lonesome, Chris Heavener, Jim Ruland, The Eggman on April 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Guest Post, by Andrew Borgstrom: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Borgstrom, David Lee, The Porcine Canticles on April 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“John’s red sow won’t go / out of labor so we stay all night / and John brings coffee and smokes / and flashlight batteries and finally Jan / can feel another pig but John’s red sow’s / swole up tight and she can’t grab hold / but only touch so I push her side [...]
Big Other Contributors’ News, #20
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Greg Gerke has a story, “My Little Life-Fully Steamed and Mixed”, at A cappella Zoo. It’s a tale of a young good man who is in love with steamers, mixers and cuisinarts. Also a very very short story at the Sonora Review blog, “You, Your Keys and I.” A D Jameson‘s prose piece “Wrong” appeared [...]
(In/Un)troducing Raymond Federman’s SHHH: The Story of a Childhood
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just received the official word that Raymond Federman’s final novel, SHHH: The Story of a Childhood has been released—from Starcherone Press. If you don’t know Federman, check out my last post on the subject. If you don’t know Starcherone, one of the workhorses of the indie press scene, then it’s time to get acquainted. [...]
Partial Study of These Pathologies
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Ryan Bradley posted a quick & smart micro-review of Matt Bell’s WOLF PARTS (read it here), & so I thought I would tackle the other limited-edition mini-book recently released from Keyhole Press: William Walsh’s PATHOLOGIES. I am a big fan of William Walsh’s work – WITHOUT WAX is an amazing book, somehow bringing a new [...]
Guest Post, by Derek White: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ampère's circuital law (with Maxwell's correction), Derek White on April 29, 2010 | 8 Comments »
—Ampère’s circuital law (with Maxwell’s correction)
Guest Post, by Jamie Iredell: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Henry David Thoreau, jamie iredell, Walking" on April 29, 2010 | 10 Comments »
“In Wildness is the preservation of the world.” —Henry David Thoreau, in “Walking”
Flowing in the Gossamer Fold by Ben Spivey
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Spivey, Blue Square Press on April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ben Spivey’s debut novel, Flowing in the Gossamer Fold, is available for pre-order from Blue Square Press. People have nice things to say about the novel! “Reading like the troubled offspring of Claire Denis’s L’Intrus and the surreal ending of Jim Thompson’s Savage Night, Spivey’s Flowing in the Gossamer Fold creates a deliberate and satisfying confusion between the habitations [...]
Guest Post, by William Walsh: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged “Araby", Dubliners, James Joyce, William Walsh on April 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed.” —James Joyce, from “Araby” Dubliners (1914)
Guest Post, by David Peak: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Autumnal", David Peak, Thomas Ligotti on April 28, 2010 | 6 Comments »
From Thomas Ligotti’s story, “Autumnal.” “And we are always dreaming of the day when all the fires of summer are defunct, when everyone like a shriveled leaf sinks into the cooling ground of a sunless earth, and when even the colors of autumn have withered for the last time, dissolving into the desolate whiteness of [...]
Art as Experience
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Allan Kaprow, Arnold Schoenberg, Art Institute of Chicago, atonal music, conceptual art, Dar Williams, Elvis Presley, Happenings, Jackson Pollock, James Franco, John Cage, John Dewey, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko, Meet Joe Black, Out One, performance art, Roger Ebert, Space Invaders, the dominant, Video Games, Yves Klein on April 28, 2010 | 18 Comments »
In the comments section of my last post, Can Video Games Be Art?, I sketched out a definition of art as experience, or even as an attitude, rather than as a thing or a collection of things (see here and here). At the risk of repeating myself, I’d like expound on that position, in case [...]
Presence in Work
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »
In light of the new Marina Abramovic exhibition at MOMA, The Artist is Present, and having just read Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, the transcripts of a three-day interview with David Foster Wallace from 1996, I’m thinking a lot about the person behind the work; about identity and the pitfalls and perils associated [...]
Kate Zambreno reads on Friday in NYC
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Kate Zambreno reads from her debut novel O Fallen Angel (Chiasmus Press) at Bluestockings Radical Books–a very cool progressive bookstore in the LES–along with Masha Tupitsyn (Beauty Talk and Monsters) and Kim Rosenfield (Good Morning Midnight). The Deets: Friday, April 30 at 7pm at Bluestockings, 72 Allen Street, New York, NY. Kate’s novel is an [...]
‘On Reading’, if you were ever curious
Posted in Uncategorized on April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Shome Dasgupta has started a new series on his blog: ‘On Reading‘, where writers talk very briefly about what reading means to them. Check it out – great snippets from William Walsh, Molly Gaudry, Jac Jemc, & so to be many many more.
What are people in the NYC subway system reading?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Animal Farm, Hobgoblin, Macbeth, Paul Newman, Robert Benton, Steig Larrson on April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This week’s leading book is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larrson. Did you know the book is a crime novel? Did you know that Mr. Larsson is dead? Did you know that he wrote his novels in the evenings for his own pleasure? This week’s top five: 1. The Girl with the [...]
Assorted Notes on (or a Kind of Review of) Shya Scanlon’s In this alone impulse, (Noemi Press, 2009)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged In this alone impulse, Shya Scanlon on April 25, 2010 | 13 Comments »
The fifth piece of this collection, “Go beside, and speak,” begins: “I am from I have been thinking. I am from it feels like. I am from seeing through something.” We have anaphora here, yes, but this passage (as well as a great deal of the book’s beginning) is also a great display of anacoluthon. [...]
Partial Thoughts for a Partial Wolf
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Wolf Like Me", Fairytales, Keyhole Press, Little Red Riding Hood, M. Night Shymalan, Matt Bell, Molly Gaudry, Robert Coover, The Village, TV on the Radio, Wolf Parts on April 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I received my copy of Matt Bell’s Wolf Parts yesterday. Read it last night. It made me want to say things about it. I didn’t really know what to expect. I’ve read a healthy dose of Bell’s work, but hadn’t read this piece. With a title like “Wolf Parts” so many things come to mind. [...]
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