A few years ago, in Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell produced a startling and often beautiful meditation on human predation. Now, in The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, he has produced what might be considered a companion volume to that earlier novel: a startling and at times beautiful meditation on ownership and being owned.
Archive for June, 2010
Read this: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged david mitchell on June 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Annalemma’s Tilt-a-Whirl
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Chris Heavener of Annalemma is talking about connections, community, & submissions. This is an important conversation (isn’t it?) & I’d love to know what the BigOther community thinks (we are a community, right?). Read up & hit us in the comments. Stir some of this shit.
Amy Hempel’s answer – What’s yours?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Hempel, Aquafina on June 29, 2010 | 27 Comments »
As a writing teacher, and in the interest of all the aspiring writers reading this, what’s the most common mistake young, fresh writers make? AH: This is the young writer mistake question: Wanting to publish more than wanting to write well. Complete Interview
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 6
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apocalypse, Batman, Batman XXX, Corto Maltese, Frank Kermode, Frank Miller, Lynn Varley, nuclear winter, Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, The Sense of an Ending, Theory of Prose, Viktor Shklovsky, Vivid Entertainment on June 28, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 7 | Part 8 Greetings again after much too long a while. Since the last installment in this series, the new pornographers at Vivid have announced, written, shot, and released Batman XXX: A Porn Parody, so it’s well past [...]
(Keep Feeling) Stephin Merritt
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged (Keep Feeling) Fascination, Stephin Merritt, The Human League, The Magnetic Fields on June 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I may be a bit slow to the party, but until tonight, and a chance overhearing in a crowded bar, I hadn’t thought about the influence that the Human League had on the Magnetic Fields. “(Keep Feeling) Fascination” And so the conversation turned Until the sun went down And many fantasies were learned On that [...]
Anatomy of a Flash: Janey Smith (Guest post by Keith Nathan Brown)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Janey Smith, Very Ape on June 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Provocateur and DIY punk mistress, Janey Smith, eschews the conventional channels of publishing for a more personal guerrilla method in order to reach her readers. Case in point, a couple months ago I received an email alluding to a published piece of mine, to which a pdf was attached, Smith’s debut collection of fiction, Very [...]
In memory of Big Al, Little Norm and Average-sized Mrs Swinburne
Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Alan Plater has died. I don’t know how many outside the UK will even recognise the name, but he has been one of the finest and most important writers on British television ever since the days of Z-Cars. Hm, pauses, considers … I have a bit of explaining to do, don’t I?
James Kaelan’s WE’RE GETTING ON is a must have
Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Like all of you BigOther contributors & readers, I am passionate about books. & when I read a book that I love, I have to spread the word. I received Jame Kaelan’s signed, first (seeded cover) edition of WE’RE GETTING ON, & was blown away. I had read some excerpts of this book early on [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 7 / 39, THE NIGHT I DROPPED SHAKESPEARE ON THE CAT
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calamari Press, J. A. Tyler, John Olson on June 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Apologies for the delay, I have been making my way through other reviews but am back on Calamari track now. To play catch-up, read the previous installments here… 1 / 39 P.S. AT LEAST WE DIED TRYING 2 / 39 THE HOUR SETS 3 / 39 GOOD, BROTHER 4 / 39 3RD BED [1] 5 [...]
Elegy to a Bookstore?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lily Hoang, Strand Book Store, Subterranean Books, This Ain’t Rosedale Library on June 24, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Bookstores are still one of my favorite places to hang, and whenever I travel I invariably seek one to roam around in. Recently, when I was in St. Louis I happened upon Subterranean Books, which boasts a gold star (part of a Walk of Fame) for Stanley Elkin on its sidewalk. Here in NYC my [...]
Brevity, part 8: Long Titles
Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Heart of Gass
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, William Gass on June 22, 2010 | 10 Comments »
On William H. Gass’s “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country” I have a strange little love affair with this story. When I was at the University of Oregon I would sit in my teacher’s office and he would read me snippets of literature. James Salter, John Berger and this story by Mr. [...]
Tell us…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2010 | 20 Comments »
…about the most important influence on your writing career. Person or book, feeling or storm.
The Big Other Interview: Rob Stephenson
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Passes Through, Rob Stephenson on June 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Don’t know Rob Stephenson yet? Then get to not-know him even more with his new FC2 release, Passes Through. Along with La Medusa by Vanessa Place, it’s one of the most ambitious FC2 titles of recent years. Structurally complex, this is a symphonic “novel” which reminds me, in its refusal to adapt to the novel [...]
Corium Magazine – Issue 2
Posted in Uncategorized on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The summer issue is live. Short fiction by Jenny Bitner, Roxane Gay, Mark Gozonsky, BJ Hollars, Nate Liederbach, and Gary Percesepe Very short fiction by Nicolle Elizabeth, Jessica Hollander, Mary Miller, Darlin’ Neal, Sal Pane, David Peak, James Robison, Matthew Salesses and Ken Sparling Poetry by Rachel Ducas, Vitor Oliveira Jorge, Uche Obuji, Angela Readman, [...]
Farewell, Nicolle Elizabeth!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Nicolle Elizabeth on June 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Please join me in saying goodbye to Nicolle Elizabeth. We will miss her thoughtful, engaging posts and comments at Big Other. I hope she will still check in from time to time. Be sure to keep up with her goings on (fiction, book reviews, essays, interviews, etc.) HERE.
SPD’s Summer Fiction Sale
Posted in Uncategorized on June 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t miss Small Press Distribution’s Sale! Pick up great books like Gary Lutz’s Stories in the Worst Way or Eugene Marten’s new Firework.
Goodbye to all that
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jose Saramago on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
José Saramago 1922-2010 “I tell them to read my books out loud and then they’ll pick up the rhythm, because this is ‘written orality.’ It is the written version of the way people tell stories to each other.”
Big Other Reading
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2010 | 12 Comments »
The best part of the Big Other event for me was everything. But mainly it reminded me of what astute company I’m in. Everyone is working on such beautiful and diverse projects. Here is a run down. (Now with photos by John Dermot Woods, thanks John!)
A Night with Big Other, FC2, and More in Chicago!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Come out to see Big Other contributors, FC2 authors, and others: Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010 Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm Location: Green Lantern Address: 2542 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, Illinois And here’s the lineup: Rob Stephenson‘s Passes Through is just out from FC2. He is an intermedia artist living in Queens, NY. Cris Mazza writes. Some say [...]
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