Here are two quotes by two foreigners about America (the first obliquely-US box office return is the most important marker for studio films). Christopher Nolan, about his upcoming film Inception: When somebody’s spent years making a film and spent massive amounts of money — crazy amounts of money, really, that get spent on these huge [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Said and Unsaid
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christopher Nolan, J.M. Coetzee on July 6, 2010 | 8 Comments »
A Jello Horse and Your Rightful Home
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Jello Horse, Alyssa Knickerbocker, Matthew Simmons, YOUR RIGHTFUL HOME on July 5, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday I read Matthew Simmons’s A Jello Horse (Publishing Genius, 2009), immediately after finishing Alyssa Knickerbocker’s Your Rightful Home (Flatmancrooked, 2010). I remember when A Jello Horse was first published. There was something about a bunch of telephones. There was that cover, which is not my copy’s cover (mine is the one with the pink and the [...]
There and Not There: the World Trade Center Towers in Art
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Man on Wire", "Weather Diaries, "West Side Highway", art, documentaries, James Marsh, Jari Silomäki, Mitch Epstein, Philippe Petit, photography, twin towers, World Trade Center on July 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Below are three works of art that include, as part of their subjects, the World Trade Center towers. I. This picture was taken in 1977. Its effect, for a long time, derived mainly from its symbolism – from what its juxtapositions suggest about modern life. A man rests on a cot beside a large American [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 8 / 39, EVER
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blake Butler, Calamari Press, J. A. Tyler on July 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Click through for a review of EVER, the eighth in this full-press review series of Calamari books.
Big Other Contributors’ News, #22
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Davis Schneiderman, J. A. Tyler, Jac Jemc, John Madera, Michael Leong, Paul Kincaid, Stacy Muszynski on July 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
J.A. Tyler has new pieces in Word Riot, Prick of the Spindle, decomP, and The Diagram, and three pieces at jmww: HERE, HERE, and HERE. And a review/interview of PEE ON WATER, by Rachel Glaser appears in Rumble. And his novella INCONCEIVABLE WILSON was reviewed at The Collagist. Northwestern University Press released Davis Schneiderman’s new [...]
Reading Lily Hoang’s “The Evolutionary Revolution”
Posted in Uncategorized on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“And meanwhile, man had forgotten about the [Evolution] Council’s existence, and so to this very day, we hide. We hide like our forefathers hid. But we are not ashamed. We do this because it is what we have always done. We hide out of habit. We hide with our army of hundreds of poets and [...]
Gabriel Orgrease: On Ritual
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alien, Gabriel Orgrease, ritual, Writing, writing ritual on July 1, 2010 | 7 Comments »
“The dissociation I seek, in writing and in life is where I become to myself something alien and other.”
Anatomy of a Flash: Jessica Hollander
Posted in Uncategorized on July 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Jessica Hollander is pursuing her MFA at the University of Alabama. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Quarterly West, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Sou’wester, and Hobart, among others. You can visit her here. Her flash fiction, The Good Luck Doll appeared in the second issue of Corium Magazine. It’s a magnificent piece–unsettling and darkly [...]
Why isn’t a short work considered ambitious?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 1, 2010 | 34 Comments »
It seems it’s just as ambitious to tell a story succinctly, to have a short amount of pages make up one’s entire enterprise. Novels under 200 pages Albert Camus – L’Etranger Paula Fox – Desperate Characters James Salter – A Sport and a Pastime Short Stories that ‘feel’ like short novels Alice Munro – The [...]
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