Did you know that Roxane Gay has started a press? No, not her involvement with PANK, which we all know is a great press & a stellar journal (both online & in print). This is Tiny Hardcore Press, something entirely new. So I asked her some questions that perhaps our BigOther audience might like to [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Tiny Hardcore Press, an interview with Roxane Gay
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2010 | 5 Comments »
On Lavender-Smith’s From Old Notebooks
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Avatar, Blaze Vox, Evan Lavendar-Smith, From Old Notebooks on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If one ever wondered what happened to the guys in high school who sat around reading philosophy and fancying posey, From Old Notebooks (Blaze Vox) gives a good facsimile of what their life might be like in their thirties, married with children and living in the work-a-day world. If the character of Evan Lavender-Smith in the novel, created by Evan Lavender-Smith [...]
Mario Is the New Mickey
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dave Bondi, Disney, Mario, Mickey Mouse, Nintendo, Super Mario Bros., The Wizard on December 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I never understood Mickey Mouse’s appeal. He frightened me as a child, always striking me as a freakish fellow. I like his early movies (still some of the best experimental cartoons ever made!): …but since then he’s really become a creep:
Finally a Cogent Definition of Avant-garde, care of Monsieur Hawkes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged John Hawkes on December 30, 2010 | 24 Comments »
My own concept of “avant-garde” has to do with something constant…this constant is a quality of coldness, detachment, ruthless determination to face up to the enormities of ugliness and potential failure within ourselves and in the world around us, and to bring to this exposure a savage or saving comic spirit and the saving beauties [...]
“Froth” and “Cloud Formations”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, Artists, Frost, John Madera, Thomas Bernhard on December 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“You know,” the painter said, “that art froth, that artist fornication, that general art-and-artist loathsomeness, I always found that repelling; those cloud formations of basest self-preservation topped with envy…Envy is what holds artists together, envy, pure envy, everyone envies everyone else for everything…I talked about it once before, I want to say: artists are the [...]
All The Best For You, To You: My 2010 Best in Lit List
Posted in Uncategorized on December 29, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Best Small Press Books: Matt Bell’s How They Were Found, Lindsay Hunter’s Daddy’s, Patrick Somerville’s The Universe in Miniature in Miniature, Ben Mirov’s Ghost Machine, and Lily Hoang’s Evolutionary Revolution, Xiaoda Xiao’s The Visiting Suit, Jeff Parker’s The Taste of Penny, and Jim Shepard’s Master of Miniatures. Best Books That Would Probably be on The [...]
On Loving Henry James
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Frost, Henry James, John Madera, On Loving Henry James, Roderick Hudson, The American, Thomas Bernhard, Watch and Ward on December 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Start Suffering
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cormac McCarthy, dalkey archive, Flannery O'Connor, John Hawkes, Leslie Fletcher, Louise Gluck, Mock Orange, The Lime Twig on December 28, 2010 | 21 Comments »
“You suffer The Lime Twig like a dream. It seems to be something that is happening to you, that you want to escape from but can’t.” – Flannery O’Connor *** The stakes get raised again. After reading John Hawkes’s The Lime Twig I’m of a mind with Louise Glück lines from “Mock Orange”: How can [...]
Best of 2010, Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Borgstrom, Big Other, Cooper Renner, David Shields, Eugene Lim, Gabe Durham, John Madera, Kevin Prufer on December 26, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I spent a large part of today playing with my five-year-old daughter in the snow, and I’m thinking that might have been my best moment of the year. Here are some other bright and shiny things that have caught the eyes, and in some cases the ears, of Andrew Borgstrom, Gabe Durham, Eugene Lim, Kevin Prufer, [...]
Attempt, endeavour, meditation
Posted in Uncategorized on December 26, 2010 | 9 Comments »
The essay is a European form, originating in the writings of Montesquieu and Bacon, but of late it has come to seem something of an American speciality. Certainly, there is no equivalent of, say, John McPhee, writing in the UK (McPhee’s books aren’t even published in Britain). And a big-name popular novelist like Michael Chabon [...]
Holiday Cheer: How Reindeer Fly
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reindeer seek out and consume hallucinogenic mushrooms as a palliative for Seasonal Affective Disorder. MORE at Huffpo…
Holiday Cheer: NIGHTMARE DEMON CREATURES
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Thanks to a Boing Boing blog post shared by Matt Bell in Google Reader, I’ve just discovered KRAMPUS, the mythological creature who accompanies St. Nicholas in Alpine countries and punishes poorly-behaved children. Wikipedia doesn’t specify the punishment. Does he eat them? How did I not know about this? PEOPLE, THIS IS A REAL THING, I [...]
Holiday Cheer: Hair Metal Edition
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
c/o omg blog
Holiday Cheer, Part… Wait, What Number Are We On?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This one care of BO’s own Jac Jemc.
Your Christmas Quiz
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
1: Why does ‘monosyllabic’ have five syllables? 2: How long is a sentence? 3: How many novels begin: ‘I’? Why? 4: Just how big is the other? Only write on one side of the internet at once. Your time starts … now.
Holiday Cheer, Part 4
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
CONFERENCE ROOM, a very short fiction by Tim Jones-Yelvington (A “Best Of” List)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
CONFERENCE ROOM When I drink, I can feel that the world cares about me, revolves around me and my misdeeds. I’m lying down, he stretches his body out on top of me, his hind legs on my groin, his front paws touching my neck, he’s so excited he drools on my chest, all fifteen pounds [...]
Holiday Cheer, Part 3
Posted in Uncategorized on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(hat tip James St. James, World of Wonder).
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Announcing the Book Club Schedule!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Big Other, C, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, Djuna Barnes, Gilgamesh, Gordon Lish, Helen Vendler, John Barth, John Gardner, John Hawkes, John Maier, Lyn Hejinian, Manuel Puig, Mary Caponegro, Mo Yan, My Life, Nightwood, Peru, Searches and Seizures: 3 Novellas, Stanley Elkin, The Complexities of Intimacy, The Sotweed Factor, Tom McCarthy, Travesty on December 26, 2010 | 9 Comments »
The votes are in, and the winner of the poll for the first book to be discussed in the Big Other Book Club is Tom McCarthy’s C. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, hailed by many and knocked by maybe even more, McCarthy describes the book as dealing with technology and mourning. I’m excited to have, as [...]
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