Mark Spitzer’s new Season of the Gar (University of Arkansas Press) is a travelogue into the world of ancient garfish—those prehistoric “monsters” that in their alligator gar variety look like something out of PT Barnum or an older mythology. These misunderstood fish—which can grow to twelve feet long and a century old—have been hunted for [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Must be the Season of the Gar
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mark Spitzer, Season of the Gar on May 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Guest Post, by Michael Kimball: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged In the Skin of the Lion, Michael Ondaatje on May 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“If he is awake early enough the boy sees the men walk past the farmhouse down First Lake Road.” –Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of the Lion
Guest Post, by Jen Michalski: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Emergency", Denis Johnson, Jen Michalski, Jesus' Son on May 9, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“Later in the afternoon, with sad resignation, the county fair bares its breasts.” –”Emergency,” Denis Johnson, from Jesus’ Son
In Memory of William Lubtchansky
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Bulle Ogier, Claude Lanzmann, Danièlle Huillet, Dziga Vertov Group, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-Marie Straub, Juliet Berto, Philippe Garrel, William Lubtchansky on May 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »
26 October 1937 – 4 May 2010. William Lubtchansky was one of the greatest cinematographers of our time, and of any time. He shot films for Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Agnès Varda, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, François Truffaut, Claude Lanzmann, Philippe Garrel, and many others. Among his many accomplishments was helping to “romanticize” the [...]
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Georgia Coffee Ads
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Lynch, Georgia Coffee, Twin Peaks on May 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Agent Cooper’s not the only one stuck in the Black Lodge. From LynchNet: These commercials were done for the Japanese canned coffee, Georgia. The series was set in Twin Peaks and featured many of the cast from the series. In the ads, a Japanese man searches for his missing wife. Each commercial added more clues [...]
Big Other Contributors’ News, #21
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Ryan W. Bradley‘s “Clean Baby Girl” was published at Metazen along with an interview. A D Jameson‘s story “The Recruiter” was posted at Sidebrow. Adam will be reading on Saturday, 15 May with Kate Zambreno, John Beer, Daniel Borzutsky, Jeremy M. Davies, Megan Milks, and James Pate at Quimby’s Bookstore, Chicago, 7 PM. Free! Paul [...]
Guest Post, by Christopher Higgs: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Marcus, Christopher Higgs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Age of Wire & String on May 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“Every word was once an animal.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guest Post, by Matt Bell: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dennis Cooper, Guide, Matt Bell on May 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“It was like looking at a rock pile and trying to imagine an avalanche.” –from Guide, by Dennis Cooper
I rebel with a raised fist, can we get a witness?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chuck d, copyfight, copyright, flava flav, public enemy, terminator x on May 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Chuck D has been a clear and reasoned voice on the topic of intellectual property from way back. I listened to It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back while I was drawing this morning. I heard “Caught, Can I Get a Witness” for the first time in a long time. P.E. was [...]
The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From potentialbooksbook.com: Dear Internet, We are very excited to announce the coming existence of The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature. The Catalog is to consist of a series of blurbs/short descriptions of books that do not exist. In order to compile that Catalog, we have asked many of the writers, theorists, and [...]
Guest Post, by Zoe Zolbrod: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, Zoe Zolbrod on May 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“I didn’t, couldn’t, catch Sils’s eye—she was standing over with the sopranos—but it didn’t matter, I didn’t have to, because this wasn’t personal, this singing, this light, this was girls, after weeks of rehearsal, celebrating the ethereal work of their voices, the bell-like, birdlike, child-sound they could still make so strongly in unison.” —Lorrie Moore, [...]
Guest Post, by Roy Kesey: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged “Culture, Habitations of the Word, Roy Kesey, Self and Style” on May 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“A sentence is a length of awareness.” –William Gass, “Culture, Self and Style,” Habitations of the Word
A cásus about a cásus I bróðorlufu: Here bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunterbury
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram [...]
here i want to do the sentence thing too
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Not to self-promote here but me and B. Butler and quotes I took from Wes Anderson did this at 3:AM UK last year. There, I hate me. “Suppose you threw a love affair and nobody came.” -Lorrie Moore Self Help -Story of my life starts and ends here. Blake Butler: 12. i need to get [...]
Ba Da Bum Bum Bum
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m hooked on Toni Braxton’s newish single and video, “You Make My Heart,” not only because Toni and I currently have the same haircut (seriously, it’s almost identical, if I had a decent camera I’d show you… I emailed my hairstylist to tell her Toni’s sweatin’ my style, and she responded, “She totally wasted your [...]
&NOW BOOKS / &NOW updates
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
1. When’s the next &NOW conference? Glad you asked. October 2011 (dates TBA), at the University of California San Diego, with our host, Anna Joy Springer. Look for info as we move closer. You bring the funk, we’ll bring the sun. 2. THE &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing 2. Release date: Fall 2012. Nominations [...]
Guest Post, by Steve Himmer: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Flann O'Brien, Steve Himmer, The Poor Mouth on May 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“I do not know whether it was Gaelic or English or a strange irregular dialect which was in the old speech which the gentleman collected from among us here in Corkadoragha but it is certain that whatever word was uttered that night, came from our rambling pig.” ~from Flann O’Brien’s The Poor Mouth, 1941 (page [...]
A Sentence About A Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jack Driscoll, Wanting Only to be Heard on May 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Judge, looking up finally, straight-faced and serious, said, ‘I shit you not,’ as if under oath, and they both went silent as if the naked truth of Houdini and the Irish setter were tempting them to find out.” — Jack Driscoll from “Wanting Only to be Heard” in the collection of the same name.
chance at a free copy of Shane Jones’ LIGHT BOXES
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
via Adam Robinson @ htmlgiant.com: To enter to win the original PG version of Light Boxes, together with the new Penguin version, buy a book from an independent press and forward the receipt to lightboxescontest at gmail dot com. If you buy a book from an indie press at a brick and mortar store, scan [...]
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