For the past few weeks, Mike Batt’s “Love Makes You Crazy” has been on constant repetition at my apartment: Like the greatest music videos, this one launches us directly into a fully-realized world that’s simultaneously novel and derivative, four minutes of elaborate production design that ultimately leads nowhere. And it takes its brilliant conceit both [...]
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The Multifaceted Mike Batt
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged John Cage, Lewis Carroll, 4'33", Mike Batt, The Hunting of the Snark, Watership Down, Art Garfunkel, Zero Zero, Love Makes You Crazy, A One Minute Silence, The Wombles, Elisabeth Beresford, Bright Eyes on June 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Language and science fiction
Posted in Uncategorized on June 4, 2010 | 11 Comments »
In a comment to me on this post, John said: “I’d love to see a survey from you of novels where the language is foregrounded”. Well, I don’t have the time right now, but I did write something vaguely on this topic back in around 1996, which might be of interest. So I reproduce it [...]
Postmodernism’s Abundance
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged postmodernism on June 3, 2010 | 28 Comments »
No one, I think it’s safe to say (it has always been safe to say), likes the term postmodern. As Tadd Adcox notes, “It’s a terrible word. It sounds silly, for one thing.” I myself often like silly things, but I agree that postmodern is too silly, and (more problematically) too uninformative; the term simply [...]
Flurry of Colorful Readings in NYC
Posted in Uncategorized on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On June 4th at 7pm KGB Bar in NYC there is a reading not to be missed. Fiction Magazine, Dogzplot, and Sententia are having Elizabeth Ellen, Kim Chinquee, Peter Schwartz, Christopher Kennedy, Robert Lopez, Nicolle Elizabeth, Karen Baddely, Steve Rosenstein, Marie Barrientos, G.D. Peters, Paul Hylan Segar, Ken Sparling, Geoffrey Nutter, Jen Michalski, Mark Mirsky [...]
A Jolt of Sorrentino
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gilbert Sorrentino, The Moon in its Flight on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday in the library I picked up Jeffrey Eugenides anthology of love stories (My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro) and was delighted to find Gilbert Sorrentino’s “The Moon in it’s Flight.” A nice dose of his meta-fiction cleared my head (and sinuses as I snorted with laughter). He takes [...]
Tell us your list
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 20 under 40, New Yorker on June 3, 2010 | 12 Comments »
After the New Yorker posted their list of the top 20 writers under 40 with all large press names I thought it might be time for a counter list. In the spirit of equal opportunity I invite anyone to submit lists of their top writers under 40. Please rank them 1-5. 5 points for first [...]
Memorization?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Memorizing on June 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »
There’s been some talk about memorizing things in a comment thread here and it made me think of how little I’ve actually memorized. What are some things some things you’ve committed to memory?
The Art of Timeliness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dennis Remick, Political Cartoons, Time, Timeliness on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A while back I was thinking about art that gets dated. There are an infinite amount of examples of this, and little reason to try and list them. But there is only one art form where the entire purpose is for the art to be dated. There is only one art form I can think [...]
Guest Post, by D. A. Powell: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Lost Lady, D.A. Powell, Willa Cather on June 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“Mrs. Forrester chatted to Niel with her face turned toward him, holding her muff up to break the wind.” –from A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather
Guest Post, Ben Spivey: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Spivey, Log Of The S.S. The Mrs Unguentine on June 2, 2010 | 4 Comments »
And when the pains finally grew sharp I thought that death should come like that—like childbirth, into the birth of silence and no light—and I stood up one last time and pushed the curtains apart to have a glimpse across the gardens, my fence, to the waves upon waves of velvet green beyond. –From Stanley [...]
Mud Luscious Press Is on the Move!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Borgstrom, Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, Grim Tales, Ken Sparling, Lamination Colony, Mud Luscious Press, Norman Lock, Pindeldyboz on June 1, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Good things are happening at Mud Luscious Press, the brainchild of Big Other’s J.A. Tyler:
In Memory of Kazuo Ohno
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Butoh, Hijikata Tatsumi, Kazuo Ohno, Virginie Marchand on June 1, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Kazuo Ohno passed away today. He was 103. With Hijikata Tatsumi, he founded Butoh. He was one of the most beautiful dancers. You can read a bit more about him here and here. I’ve organized some videos of him performing, below.
Novel Day at Word Riot
Posted in Uncategorized on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jackie Corley will be making full novels available for download on June 7th (and June 7th alone) at Word Riot. An interesting experiment. Authors who’ve expressed interest in posting a novel include myself, Paula Bomer, Steve Himmer, and Jackie herself. I expect others will too. Check out the details.
Got a Long Poem or Novella?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Long Poem, Novel(la), The Seattle Review on June 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
You know you do. (Molly asked me to post this.):
Dick Cavett’s wit
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dick Cavett, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Sly Stone on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I watched so much TV from about 1978- 1995 it was disgusting, but a show I have only vague memories of still delights me. The Dick Cavett Show was on PBS in the late 70′s and early 80′s and my father watched it. Dick’s wit and timing seem to be from a bygone era. Below [...]
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