BIG OTHER

The other week a discussion opened up at HTMLGIANT, in response to Justin Taylor’s post, that raised some interesting questions about the current tone in the independent community, one that – to cop a quote from the post – “encourages people to get awestruck at the drop of a hat.” Hopping around lit sites all [...]

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Lawrence Lessig’s got an interesting review of The Social Network in the New Republic, where, after praising the film’s aesthetics and storytelling, he suggests Sorkin’s fear and incomprehension of the internet lead to a script that counteracts efforts for net neutrality. Or at least misses an opportunity to advocate for a democratic internet. It occurred [...]

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I was both amused and bemused to note that Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Freedom, is rather predictably being touted as the Great American Novel. Let’s face it, we’ve all read read the Great American Novel. It was Moby Dick or it was The Great Gatsby or it was Citizen Kane or it was The Catcher [...]

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I’ve been taking part in an interesting, intense and at times disturbing discussion of the position of women in British science fiction, which some of you may find worth your while.

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Howard Jacobson has an interesting polemic about comedy in serious fiction in the Guardian. I was particularly struck by this sentence: But we have created a false division between laughter and thought, between comedy and seriousness, between the exhilaration that the great novels offer when they are at their funniest, and whatever else it is [...]

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University of Illinois at Chicago. Assistant Professor, Creative Writing (Poetry), beginning Fall 2011. We are currently seeking a poet with distinguished publications (including one book, published or in press) & substantial promise as a writer & teacher. The successful candidate will also complement our existing strengths in Latino and/or African American literatures. PhD preferred. Candidates [...]

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To order send a PayPal payment of $22 for shipping and handling to polemicpress@gmail.com For orders outside the USA send $33 US!!! A few months ago, I interviewed Mark Spitzer for Big Other about his new environmental eco-criticism adventure narrative: Season of the Gar: Adventures in Pursuit of America’s Most Misunderstood Fish (U of Arkansas [...]

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So, not only can you salivate over Ethel Rohan’s forthcoming collection from Dark Sky Books, but you can also now step up to pre-orders of Shome Dasgupta’s I Am Here And You Are Gone from Outsider Writers Collective & Press. That’s right. Spend them dollars.

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I could not be more impressed with the web-facelift of Dark Sky. It makes other websites look tiny & sad. Plus, you can see the cover of Ethel Rohan’s forthcoming collection CUT THROUGH THE BONE. I just did. & damn. Go see this now.

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