This has been under my hat for some time now. Glad to share it: (via the Starcherone news feed here) “Starcherone and Dzanc Books have agreed to partner beginning in 2011, with Dzanc providing production and distribution support to Starcherone, and Starcherone editors maintaining editorial control. The first titles under our new arrangement will be [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Starcherone to become an imprint of Dzanc
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2010 | 4 Comments »
‘…she breaks my heart with terrible ease…’ an interview with Adam Robinson about Mairéad Byrne’s THE BEST OF (WHAT’S LEFT OF) HEAVEN
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I buy every Publishing Genius Press title. No matter what. So I didn’t know Mairéad Byrne. So I’m not a huge fan of most poetry. So what. I bought THE BEST OF (WHAT’S LEFT OF) HEAVEN anyway, & I was truly & honestly exploded by this book. There is unmistakable craft here, unflinching language, & [...]
Sex and the City & Gay Male Misogyny
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2010 | 6 Comments »
In her recent film review “Sex and the City 2: Materialistic, Misogynistic, Borderline Racist,” Hadley Freeman makes a pretty convincing argument re: the Sex & the City film franchise’s betrayal of the television series’ (marginally more) feminist roots. Although I’d probably be a lot more measured in my praise of the series, I agree w/ [...]
One Year of Sunlight at Midnight, Darkness at Noon
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Memorial Day is the one-year anniversary of SUNLIGHT AT MIDNIGHT, DARKNESS AT NOON by Christopher Cunningham & Hosho McCreesh (published by Orange Alert Press) & to celebrate there is a sweet video by Hosho McCreesh & Kim Foscato here & the book on sale for $11 here. Enjoy & partake.
The family showroom
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged narrative, performance, video on May 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Guy Ben Ner’s excellent video Stealing Beauty (2007, about 18 minutes) was featured in an architecture talk that my husband attended. When he came home I was eager to hear about what invited speaker Vito Acconci had to say. The reply? “Forget Acconci, watch this!” In the video the narrative imitates a typical American sitcom, [...]
Farewell, Pindeldyboz!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged J. A. Tyler, Pindeldyboz, Whitney Pastorek, Whitney Steen on May 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A few days ago, J.A. Tyler shared the sad news with me that after ten years, Pindeldyboz is shutting down. It’s official now. Stay tuned for my interview with Pindeldyboz’s executive editor Whitney Pastorek and web editor Whitney Steen.
Currently Reading: Impossible Princess, by Kevin Killian
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dennis Cooper, Dodie Bellamy, Impossible Princess, Kathy Acker, Kevin Killian on May 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Do you ever catch on a sentence while reading, one that no matter how many times you reread it, you just can’t derive any meaning from it, it sort-of remains more or less completely… algebraic, but instead of reading ahead to something that does resonate, you keep reading the sentence, over and over, hoping to [...]
Tarpaulin Sky’s Almost-Summer Sale
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tarpaulin Sky is a righteous used-car salesman. 2 for $20, 3 for $30, 4 for $40 et cetera. & free shipping too. It is hot, or getting hot, or you need something to read, or you shouldn’t be spending the money but you will. Go forth & Almost-Summer it up.
Aaron Belz’s Lovely, Raspberry
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aaron Belz, Lovely Raspberry, Persea Books on May 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Aaron Belz has created a world all his own with Lovely, Raspberry from Persea Books. Let’s call it Belzland. In both traditional and free verse poetry, he populates this world with strange sounds, strange sights and stranger fascinations. In Belz’s playground people ask Al Gore about the muse, turn their face into a glowing pear [...]
OK, Goodnight: A Review
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Emily Kendal Frey, Future Tense, Goodnight, OK, Zachary Schomburg. on May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
OK, Goodnight By Emily Kendal Frey and Zachary Schomburg. $5.00, 32 pages ISBN-13: 978-1-892061-37-9 “so we get inside a well together / it is quiet” To read this new chapbook from Future Tense Books is to crawl into something deep and full. It is non sequiturs and quick images subverting and then fattening themselves. It [...]
A Pause in the Calamari
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I have been catching up on a back-log of reviews, though I will return to my full press review of Calamari Books in just a bit. But in the meantime, this is a bad-ass book that I read last night: AMERICAN GYMNOPEDIES by Scott Garson (Willows Wept Press, 2010). Here are some excellent quotes from [...]
Novels not written
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Every so often I find myself playing with ideas for novels I know I’m never going to write. For years I toyed with the idea of an Arthurian novel in which Mordred was the hero. More recently I’ve found myself wondering about an epic fantasy which has the tag line: “The war between Good and [...]
Numbers
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24, 2010 | 20 Comments »
It would be interesting if online literary journals released their traffic stats.
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: On a Sentence from “My Final Best Feature,” by Gary Lutz
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gary Lutz, My Final Best Feature on May 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I was going to lay off those years for a change, but here were people in what might have been asking attitudes, and from the whole of what I might have told them, I said only that in me they had yet another girl who had gone as far as she could get in life [...]
Guest Post, by Matthew Kirkpatrick: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Matthew Kirkpatrick, The Recognitions, William Gaddis on May 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. – William Gaddis, the last line of The Recognitions
Guest Post, by Thomas Cooper: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, The Paperhanger, William Gay on May 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“The vanishing of the doctor’s wife’s child in broad daylight was an event so cataclysmic that it forever divided time into the then and the now, the before and the after.” –From “The Paperhanger,” by William Gay
Half Reactionary, Half Introspective
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2010 | 43 Comments »
Listen: goodreads has a rating system of ____ out of 5 stars, translating as 1 = I didn’t like it, 2 = it was okay, 3 = I liked it, 4 = I really liked it, & 5 = it was amazing. My question(s): Is goodreads a way for us to brag about what we [...]
On Amy Hempel’s “Greed”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Hempel, Greed, Mrs. Mean, William Gass on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I sat in the library today writing and reading. A rank odor would intermittently hit me, and I didn’t know the source until I had observed a man raise and lower one and the other and then both of his armpits. This was certainly not conducive to uninterrupted work. In spite of this, I did [...]
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