When I set out to blog this year’s Hugo shortlisted novels, I imagined something conventional like a separate post on each book. For the first two books I was able to stick to that modest ambition, but the next three I read set off such resonances and cross-currents that I felt I had to read [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cherie priest, hugo awards, paolo bacigalupi, robert charles wilson on July 14, 2010 | 19 Comments »
César Aira’s The Literary Conference (Guest post by Heather Cleary Wolfgang)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged César Aira, The Literary Conference on July 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
César Aira THE WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND Greg raised an interesting point last week when he asked why short works are not generally considered ambitious. I agree wholeheartedly that the length of a work is no indication of its scope, and was reminded right away of a book I was thrilled to see [...]
Time for Nothing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Henry David Thoreau, Mark Slouka, Quitting the Paint Factory on July 13, 2010 | 4 Comments »
It’s raining outside as I write this, the soft steady pelt of raindrops, its soft shush interrupted intermittently by thunder’s crackling, gently reminding me to be quiet; and I’m thinking about time, about how little I think I have, about how much of it I fill with work, work, work, and more work, about how [...]
GUEST POST: DAVID MASCIOTRA!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bruce Springsteen, David Masciotra, Working On A Dream on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Whenever I give a talk or sign copies of my book, Working On a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen (Continuum Books), a reader inevitably asks me, “what’s your favorite Springsteen album?” I always give the same answer—The Rising—and get the same reaction—shock. Undoubtedly, they expect me to name Born to Run, Born [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 9 / 39, LAND OF THE SNOW MEN
Posted in Uncategorized on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Click through for a review of Norman Lock’s LAND OF THE SNOW MEN, the ninth in this full-press review series of Calamari books.
Soda Series #2 this Sunday in Brooklyn
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amber Sparks, Jeff Parker, John Madera, Matt Bell on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A conversation with: Matt Bell, John Madera, Jeff Parker and Amber Sparks at Soda Bar in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. 629 Vanderbilt Ave. Soda Series website Facebook RSVP. Upcoming readers include: Sasha Fletcher, Eugene Lim and Leni Zumas Matt Bell is the author of How They Were Found, forthcoming from Keyhole Press in October 2010. His [...]
HG
Posted in Uncategorized on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Around 15 years ago I went to an art installation in London called ‘HG’. It was located in what had been the old Clink prison, and the first room was set up like the remains of a Victorian dinner party that had just been interrupted by the arrival of the Time Traveller. From there we [...]
Then & Now: WCW on QWERTY
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "The Simplicity of Disorder", Alphabet, QWERTY, qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm, urban dictionary, William Carlos Williams on July 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Then: This is the alphabet q w e r t y u i o p a s d f g h j k l z x c v b n m. The extraordinary thing is that no one has yet taken the trouble to write it out fully. –William Carlos Williams, “The Simplicity of Disorder” [...]
Your Summer Jam
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ezra Furman & the Harpoons, Summer Jam on July 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
CRANK IT Buy Inside the Human Body by Ezra Furman & the Harpoons.
Why I Loved THE KASAHARA SCHOOL OF NIHILISM
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“They stare sadly at a chink of light in the door. The end and start of everything ever to have ended or started. The room is a hypothetical universe and the chink of light is its beginning. People beat planets thrown out through the thin lick of light and the planets beat them back with [...]
Plugins, Extensions–for text! Not hair!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged plugin, publishing on July 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I get a little thrill upon discovering a new place where literature can appear. From eBooks on the iPad to URLs (see Mai Ueda’s Domain Poems) to… browser plugins. Tumbarumba inserts fragments of a story into the text of regular HTML pages. Clicking the alien fragment reveals another sentence, and another, and finally the whole [...]
The Special Relationship #1 (a guest post by Jarred McGinnis)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bageye at the Wheel, Colin Grant, Discombobulate, Fergus Craig, Grant Gillespie, Granta Magazine, Jarred McGinnis, Justin Chen, Liar’s League of London, Literary Death Match, Opium, readings, Sam Taradash, Taiki Waititi, The Cuckoo Boy, The Rumpus, The Special Relationship, Toby Litt, Tom Basden, Two Cars One Night on July 8, 2010 | 29 Comments »
Jarred and I started talking a while back about readings, and what can be done to improve them. This is a description of an event he recently co-organized. —Adam “Readings shouldn’t be boring.” It’s a pretty simple idea, but amazing how rarely it’s acted upon. This thought occurred to me after I attended one of [...]
Submissions Statistics: Word Riot & Mud Luscious Press
Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Jackie Corley posted the Word Riot submission stats for the month of June (thanks to Submishmash). Their acceptance rate for June 2010 was 3.8% & looked like this: I love that Jackie is this open with her figures, & I would love to see more of this from as many journals as possible. So in [...]
Could somebody smarter than me…
Posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2010 | 5 Comments »
…break down the historical, philosophical and analytic distinction(s) btwn the Judeo-Christian mind-body split and the Platonic distinction between spiritual and physical love? Does the Judeo-Christian have any roots in the Platonic, or are they totally unrelated? I want to write a young adult novel abt a Queer boy who realizes he’s a reincarnated Aphrodite. I [...]
New from Black Radish Books
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Black Radish Books, David Wolach on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just heard about a new book that looks/sounds promisingly beautiful. Press release below. Announcing the release of Occultations By David Wolach Black Radish Books ISBN 978-0-9825731-2-9 Poetry/6”X9”/168pp./May, 2010 Price ($15) Trade Paperback Original This is Wolach’s courage of paradoxical evocation…Facing the man “whose imagined / Misery we call a particular logic / While [...]
SUPER FLY : Poems inspired by Curtis Mayfield’s epic album
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Probability, like time, is its own dimension.” –Jennifer L. Knox, from “Pimp My Ride” I might have to be preparing for my workshop that begins on the 12th, but this looks good for you NYC people… SUNDAY JULY 11 / 5 PM CAKESHOP 152 Ludlow Street / NYC Pimped by Melissa Broder www.polestarpoetry.com
A Sampler of First Lines from Best of the Web 2010
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best of the Web 2010, Dzanc Books, Kathy Fish, Matt Bell on July 6, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Nola is splayed on the wooden floor, her skirt hiked up high above her knees, playing jacks. My son’s first-grade teacher doesn’t shoot heroin anymore. I went to a wedding reception at the house of a man who painted with his ass. When the war was over and all the shelling stopped, Dan Barley set [...]
Open letter to that guy who attended one &NOW conference but gets pissed when he receives an email from &NOW, which is like twice a year, maybe.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged &Now, Debra Di Blasi, Jaded Ibis on July 6, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Hey you—yes, I admit it. We’re not so professional as to really manage our mailing list in the way you seem to want us to because you’re not dealing with Random House here but a few people who have multiple emails lists that we’ve been trying over the years to merge into one. This is [...]
Poetry, Language, and the Visual Arts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "A Heap of Language", "Fragments of a Broken Poetics", "The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi", conceptualism, Hsia Yü, Jennifer Moxley, Mary Kelly, Pink Noise, Robert Smithson on July 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been ruminating today on the aphorisms of Jennifer Moxley’s “Fragments of a Broken Poetics” (from Chicago Review, Spring 2010). Worth taking a gander. This one in particular has got me thinking: XL I have met very few poets who are calm about or accepting of the way visual artists use language in their work. It seems [...]
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