Have you ever pretended to read someone’s book–perhaps a friend, perhaps a signed copy–when you have not, either from lack of time or lack of interest?
Archive for May, 2010
have you read _____ book?
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2010 | 13 Comments »
I now have even more love for Black Ocean
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
from Julie Doxsee’s OBJECTS FOR A FOG DEATH: Dear Drowning ‘After I poured you I wrapped you in a little black coat & washed the salt water out of your hair. You took 17 globes & cut them each into 4 eye shaped slices at the seams where oceans meet & said relax we’ll wing [...]
Is it September yet?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Coffee House Press, Kate Bernheimer, Lydia Millet on May 1, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Coffee House Press does it again! To be released in September, 2010, Kate Bernheimer’s Horse, Flower, Bird is illustrated by none other than Rikki Ducornet and blurbed by Pulitzer finalist Lydia Millet. Here’s the scoop: In Kate Bernheimer’s familiar and spare—yet wondrous—world, an exotic dancer builds her own cage, a wife tends a secret basement [...]
Death to February
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Light Boxes, Shane Jones on May 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In a recent blog post, “Human,” Shane Jones writes: Anytime I read something positive about my book I get a very short (maybe like 30 second happy feeling) and then it’s gone and I don’t remember it really. When I read something negative, or get a negative email from someone, it lasts much longer, and I [...]
Guest Post, by Gary Amdahl: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gary Amdahl, Henry James, The Jolly Corner on May 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“He projected himself all day, in thought, straight over the bristling line of hard unconscious heads and into the other, the real, the waiting life; the life that, as soon as he had heard behind him the click of his great house-door, began for him, on the jolly corner, as beguilingly as the slow opening [...]
Guest Post, by Jeff Parker: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged “View from a Headlock”, Jeff Parker, Jonathan Lethem on May 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Mothers calling kids inside, the bus lit inside now, fat ladies coming home from offices at the Board of Education, on Livingston Street, their weary shapes like black teeth inside the glowing mouth of the bus, the light fading, street lights buzzing as they lit, their arched poles decorated with boomeranged-up sneakers, and Mingus Rude [...]
Guest Post, By Kyle Minor: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Child of God, Cormac McCarthy, Kyle Minor on May 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“They came like a caravan of carnival folk up through the swales of broomstraw and across the hill in the morning sun, the truck rocking and pitching in the ruts and the musicians on chairs in the truckbed teetering and turning their instruments, the fat man with guitar grinning and gesturing to others in a [...]
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