I Time present and time future are both surely expressions of time past. I first encountered T.S. Eliot as a small act of rebellion. Our poetry set book for O-Level English was a collection called Ten 20th Century Poets, of which we were supposed to read just five. Those on the syllabus – Edwin Muir, [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Quartet
Posted in Uncategorized on November 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Soda Series #4 Sunday 7pm Brooklyn, NY
Posted in Uncategorized on November 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The fourth edition of our conversation brings together five writers from the cities of Baltimore and Providence. Soda Series RSVP
CCLaP Hosts An Evening with Nathan Rabin
Posted in Uncategorized on November 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
via Jason Pettus @ CCLaP: The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (cclapcenter.com) is proud to announce its last live event of 2010, a long and informative talk with Nathan Rabin, head writer of the pop-culture guide AV Club (avclub.com), on Monday, November 29th at Stage 773 (formerly the Theatre Building Chicago), just west of [...]
Month of Gratitude: Democracy Now!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, Juan Gonzalez on November 12, 2010 | 6 Comments »
You might call Democracy Now! a peoples’ history of the United States and the world, as it provides its “audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace [...]
The Stranger features Jaded Ibis Press
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just wanted to point you all to this profile of Jaded Ibis Press and it’s founder Debra DiBlasi in The Stranger. Debra has an incredibly innovative approach to publishing that looks for new revenue (that’s right, REVENUE) models, and brings together music, visual art, and literature in each book project. She’s a print aficionado (in [...]
Is This What it’s Come To?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ArtVoice, Buffalo, Forrest Roth, Greg Gerke, Josh Smith on November 11, 2010 | 32 Comments »
A new tactic in the war between rejected writer and editor came to my attention yesterday. In the following video, one Josh Smith of Buffalo, NY calls out myself, fiction editor of Artvoice, (a Buffalo publication) and former editor Forrest Roth. From the details below the video: At an reading in 2009, Josh Smith spotted [...]
The Big Other Interview #87: William Gillespie (Oh what a tangled webwork we weave!)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Harry Stephen Keeler, Keyhole Factory, Spineless Books, Steve Tomasula, VAS: An Opera in Flatland, William Gillespie on November 11, 2010 | 5 Comments »
11/11/10 is not only Armistice Day/Veterans Day, but the day the world-as-we-know-it ends—one year before it happens—in William Gillespie’s stunning new novel Keyhole Factory. The novel’s intersecting narrative structure draws from the “webwork” plot composition method of all-but forgotten mid-twentieth century writer Harry Stephen Keeler, and is perhaps the most fully realized postmodern version of [...]
Side by Side #8 (The Return of Side by Side?)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Iron & Wine, New Order, Side by Side on November 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a long time. I’ve been searching for the right combo to make this comeback. Here we have “Love Vigilantes.” The original by New Order, and the cover by Iron & Wine.
Wallace Stevens Week(s) begins
Posted in Uncategorized on November 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
There will be interviews with and tributes by James Longenbach, James Robison, Ken Sparling, Eleanor Cook (author of the Reader’s Guide to Wallace Stevens), Cooper Renner, Christopher Higgs, William Walsh and Jamie Iredell among others, including posts by Big Other contributors. If anyone else feels called to contribute some words about the man, please send [...]
Bradley Sands
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bradley Sands on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bradley Sands has a new collection: Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy, from the always interesting Eraserhead Press. The book includes the “In the Restaurant,” which appeared in The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing. Sands’ work has a delightful surreality about it, so this is on my list to check out…if this d&^% semester ever [...]
1 of 100
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dalkey Archive Press, Stanley Elkin on November 8, 2010 | 13 Comments »
I’m giving a lot of thought to the 100 titles I’m going to order from Dalkey Archive Press this year. I think I’ve just found my #1: Stanley Elkin’s Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers. Here’s an excerpt from “A Poetics for Bullies”: Suddenly I raise my arms and he stops. I feel a power [...]
Down with Mel Bosworth
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brown Paper Publishing, Grease Stains Kismet and Maternal Wisdom, Mel Bosworth on November 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Mel Bosworth is one of the tireless soldiers of indie lit. He seems to live and breath support for writers and small presses. He writes with romantic abandon. And his novella, Grease Stains, Kismet, and Maternal Wisdom is not only a testament to his skill as a writer, but his love for writing. The Boz [...]
The Productive Side of Despair: An interview with Edward Mullany
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Edward Mullany on November 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Figures for an Apocalypse In a house at the end of a street of deserted houses, a dog sleeps. The sun begins to come up, or the movement of the earth lets the sun appear to come up. *** Edward Mullany’s stories, poems and pictures have a strange power. They confront what is going on [...]
CFS from Sententia
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Sententia, Shya Scanlon on November 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
For Sententia 3 we’re throwing out the preconceived conceptions of what a literary journal is. We’re bringing in a guest editor/curator, the fantastic Shya Scanlon, author of In This Alone Impulse and Forecast. The key word for issue 3 will be “uncontained.” There will be no poetry in issue 3, only novel excerpts. But not just excerpts on their [...]
Firewheel/Sentence Deadline: November 17, 2010
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Firewheel Chapbook Award, Sentence Book Award on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Full details HERE. The Firewheel Chapbook Award is given to a collection of no more than 20 manuscript pages in any genre. Preference is for innovative work (liberally interpreted), work that crosses genres, work that combines images and text, work in formats other than the traditionally bound book, or work that may have difficulty finding [...]
See Emily Play
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler on November 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Studying botany from an early age, some believe she was better known as a gardener than a poet during her lifetime. When our friends at HTML Giant recently asked what people thought was the all-time overrated piece of literature the first comment was, “Anything by Emily Dickinson,” and I think I felt a cleaving in [...]
Looking at Movements, part 5: New Wave (US)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blondie, Brian Eno, Camille Saint-Saëns, David Bowie, Devo, Glenn O'Brien, Gong Show, Joey Arias, Klaus Nomi, Kristian Hoffman, Mink DeVille, Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, New Wave, Oingo Boingo, Saturday Night Live, Talking Heads, Television, The B-52's, The Cars, TV Party on November 7, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Part 1 (The Post-Punk Revival) | Part 2 (post-punk) | Part 3 (No Wave) | Part 4 (UK New Wave) In this installment, I’ll be looking at the late 70s American side of New Wave. Whereas British New Wave (The Stranglers, The Jam, The Boomtown Rats, e.g.) strikes me as emerging from punk, or at [...]
ECCOLINGUISTICS
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ECCOLINGUISTICS on November 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
[this looks like an exciting new project...details below...] CALL FOR WORK / WRITINGS, VISUAL ECCOLINGUISTICS exists to give to Mars what happened. It must consider itself a/n historical log. Otherwise the mere sic art of the ear. It seeks one thing—hoary labor in “Elegy / Churchyard” (impersonal pastorals, Wordsworth’s bone-headed “language used by real men”), [...]
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