Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 Monday was David Letterman‘s birthday, making this an okey-dokey time to talk about Book Three of The Dark Knight Returns, “Hunt the Dark Knight”… Let’s plunge right into it!
Archive for April, 2010
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 5
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Batman, Batman: Dead End, Corto Maltese, David Letterman, Frank Miller, Hugo Pratt, Neal Adams, Orson Welles, Ronald Reagan, Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, The Lady from Shanghai on April 14, 2010 | 11 Comments »
The Politics of Reading
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Politics, reading on April 14, 2010 | 31 Comments »
So, I’m reading this book. And I’m pretty much liking the thing. As I’m wont to do, I search the author (I found this particular book through it being mentioned in some interview or other), because I’m starting to get intrigued about the other books he’s written, etc. I find out the writer is a [...]
Power Quote
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“A reading is a performance whether we like or not. We’re standing up there and performing so why not see it as a performance in the way that a rock star does. They always wear the costumes.” – Kate Durbin Kate’s costumes
Not-Seeking Exposition, Mud Luscious Press
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2010 | 32 Comments »
Mud Luscious Press has accepted 2 of the 136 submissions received in the last few weeks. & while all of our rejections have personal notes of some sort, the most common reason for rejection is the heaviness or thickness of a writer’s exposition. Some examples from declined work: ‘Unlike so many other mornings, today I feel refreshed [...]
Skype/Live readings
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I’m waiting at this moment to do a Skype reading–live–for South Texas College, and I know this sort of thing is becoming more popular. I wonder if others might share some cool experiences with live remote readings? What type of crazy stuff have you seen/done–especially in the age of chatroullette?
AWP: My Haul
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Some new, some shoulda bought a long time ago: More after cut…
AWP in Texts
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2010 | 9 Comments »
…I sent some really funny ones from the aiport watching writers wait for shuttle, but these were unfortunately pushed out of my outbox before I recorded them… WEDNESDAY: To: Rebekah Silverman & Tadd Adcox Going to walk over to ground zero with MoGa after I get to hotel. Where are y’all? Do you need help? [...]
You should go to this (if you live in NYC).
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jena Osman, John D'Agata, Thalia Field on April 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ll be out of town, but if I wasn’t going to be, I’d be going to this event at Poets House: Friday, April 16, 7:00pm Texts to Argue Through: A Conversation with John D’Agata, Thalia Field & Jena Osman Essayist John D’Agata, cross-genre writer Thalia Field and experimental poet Jena Osman trace how research-based projects can evolve into [...]
Is this a great poem?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged W.S. Merwin on April 12, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Yesterday My friend says I was not a good son you understand I say yes I understand he says I did not go to see my parents very often you know and I say yes I know even when I was living in the same city he says maybe I would go there once a [...]
Spoken Word Artist Peter Wyngarde
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Austin Powers, Chris Claremont, Diana Rigg, Flash Gordon, Helfire Club, Jason King, Jason Wyngarde, John Byrne, Klytus, Mastermind, Ming the Merciless, Morrissey, Music Box, Peter Wyngarde, The Avengers, Uncanny X-Men, When Sex Leers Its Inquisitive Head on April 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
On Saturday, when I couldn’t be at AWP, I consoled myself by attending the Music Box‘s 4th Science-Fiction Spectacular. (It turns out that John Carpenter’s Dark Star (1974) is a wonderful little film—2001 by way of Dr. Strangelove.) But then Sunday found me, just like Ming the Merciless, boooored once again, so I went back [...]
Kubrick: The Great Bully
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Stanley Kubrick, The Shining on April 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »
We all know the stories. 80 takes, 90 takes. Well, you rewrite something that many times, it’s bound to get better, at least a little. Here’s Kubrick and Shelley Duvall somewhat going at it on the set of The Shining, from the Making of The Shining. Does she deserve it? Is he breaking her down [...]
Gender is not sex
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Cloud and Ashes, Fumi Yoshinaga, Greer Gilman, Herland, James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award, Ooku on April 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »
So my stint as a judge for the James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award is now at an end. We have our winners and our Honour List, and a very pleasing result it is too. I have been involved with all sorts of awards over the years, and this was certainly the strangest experience. What follows, [...]
Contest Deadline Extended
Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Technically, the deadline for this very exciting contest you should totally enter was yesterday. But I’ve done not so fantastic a job promoting the thing, so I’m extending the deadline… until after AWP. I’ll tell you how long after LATER. Just to create some drama. Send your entries and send them soon!
is Lamination Colony dead?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
duotrope says so. I wonder if it is true. I hope not.
Unsolicited Edits of a Story by James Franco
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Esquire Magazine, James Franco, Just Before the Black on April 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Actor James Franco has published a story in Esquire. Though I’ve read stories that were once within its pages, all of which were edited by the incomparable editor, Gordon Lish, I don’t think I’ve ever read anything from Esquire while it was in Esquire. Reading Franco’s story, I knew, from the outset, that it would [...]
Politics are Personal
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged George W. Bush, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni on April 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
July 30, 2007 Morning: Bush lied, Bergman died. Evening: Bush lied, Antonioni died.
At Swim-Two-Birds – Week 2 wrap up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Week 2 is now finished. Week 3 read through to end (page 315*). (*239 in some editions)
This Saturday in Brooklyn – alternative AWP event
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alexandra Chasin, Rachel B. Glaser, Sonya Chung, Unnameable Books, Vijay Seshadri on April 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Alexandra Chasin is the author of Kissed By, a collection of short innovative fictions (FC 2). Her creative work has appeared in print in Post Road, AGNI, Denver Quarterly, H.O.W., West Branch, The Capilano Review, Chain, Phoebe, and sleepingfish, and online in Exquisite Corpse, elimae and DIAGRAM, among other places. Chasin’s work has been anthologized [...]
Buzzer Thirty calls on Artists and writers to respond ….no right to assume otherwise
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Buzzer Thirty, Tea Party on April 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Below is an important call for work from Alex and Rob at the Queens-based art organization Buzzer Thirty. I hope that you NYC-area-folks will consider participating. —————————————————————————————————————————– Dear Friends, There has been a great of activity recently by extremist groups across the country–Tea Party rallies and extremist militias. Health care reform seems to have escalated these movements, [...]
Fan Mail
Posted in Uncategorized on April 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Today I was listening to a Rhianna song and thinking about fan mail. Because there’s a part in the song where Rhianna says that she gets “fan mail from 27 million.” And I thought, there’s no way she’s read all of that mail, or has even seen it. And I thought, these people writing to [...]
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