The first is ASYMPTOTE, which I can tell you now has an incredible lineup for its forthcoming first issue. As there’s still time to submit, you should know the journal is: interested in encounters between languages and the consequences of these encounters. Though a translation may never fully replicate the original in effect (thus our [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Two New Journals You Should Know About
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged asymptote, country music on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Davis Schneiderman Suggests Recursive, Provides Concrete Example
Posted in Uncategorized on December 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Good Old NeonLeaks: Transparency in Politics and Literature
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Foster Wallace, Good Old Neon, Hamlet, Liar Liar, transparency, WikiLeaks on December 13, 2010 | 22 Comments »
The WikiLeaks story is dramatic on so many levels, with a character at center stage, Julian Assange, worthy of Shakespeare: accused of sexual impropriety and putting lives at risk, touting an idealistic mission of transforming global geopolitics by turning them inside-out, inspiring the creation of a hall of mirror-sites and spawning cyber-attacks on his behalf [...]
This is Some Awesome Shit.
Posted in Uncategorized on December 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Check this out — Cathy Day’s students (I think she’s at Ball State? Colleague of Sean Lovelace?) are creating these brilliant little micro-narratives in Google Maps. hat tip: James Tadd Adcox.
We Know Best What’s Nearest (Living Art Backwards)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Céline, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Jackie Wang, James Joyce, Jonathan Franzen, Kurt Vonnegut, Lydia Davis, Symbolist poetry, Thomas Pynchon, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Ulysses on December 13, 2010 | 28 Comments »
A quick follow-up to Tim’s post here, which was itself in response to Jackie Wang’s post here. Wang had asked: Do you feel a duty to read and acknowledge your literary, theoretical, and musical foremothers? I’d argue that most people have no idea who their artistic forebears are. For example: students tell me all the [...]
Stay Classy, Literature
Posted in Uncategorized on December 13, 2010 | 20 Comments »
There are more vampires, zombies and werewolves than working-class protagonists in American literature today. Does anyone else worry about this? I worry. I worry about the relative absence of workers or work or people without money depicted in literature. I worry that most of the people without money in literature are young privileged students working [...]
Generationality (In Which I Pirate Jackie Wang’s Groove to Prevent my Becoming BO’s Most Absentee Contributor)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 13, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday at htmlgiant, Jackie Wang asked folks to discuss where they stand re: issues of lineage and generationality, acknowledgment vs. non-acknowledgment of forebears, contextualizing her questions w/ quotations from Judith/Jack Halberstam and Joyelle McSweeney, among others. It’s pretty much impossible for me to consider these questions outside the context of Queer and feminist aesthetics and [...]
Remembering Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abortion, Grace Paley, Just As I Thought, women's reproductive rights on December 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What’s your favorite Grace Paley story? I have The Collected Stories and am ready to get started. Meanwhile, I’ve been reading Just As I Thought, and although I’m only about halfway through Part One, I know I want to teach these essays one day, particularly “The Illegal Days,” which begins: It was the late thirties, [...]
What’s So New about New Wave?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Blondie, Caroline Coon, Devo, Duran Duran, François Truffaut, garage rock, Gary Numan, glam, Jacques Rivette, Jean Luc Godard, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Malcolm McLaren, Minimalism, Mod, New New Wave, New Wave Coffee, Post-Punk Revival, power pop, punk, Sex Pistols, synthrock, Talking Heads, Television, The B-52's, The Boomtown Rats, The Human League, The Nouvelle Vague, The Only Ones, The Pretenders, The Stranglers on December 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’ve outlined some of the following in my Looking at Movements series of posts (more of which are forthcoming), but here I want to examine the New Wave tradition exclusively, and from a different direction. I’m increasingly fascinated by how that simple two-word term has been used over the past 50 years to describe [...]
Ten Words about Each of Them: A Spiraling Summary–Type Review of Bradley Sand’s Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy
Posted in Uncategorized on December 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
‘Seth Schultz’: Seth ruins an orgy by coming dressed as a bear. ‘Eggs Benedict’: A Tyrannosaurus rex, hollandaise, & the second story containing teeth. ‘Refrain’: He wore an eye patch over his eye. He saw. ‘Brave Contestant of Faith’: A game show, God or No God, & earwax-flavored Starburst. ‘Temporomandibular’: A made-up word & a [...]
Announcing My First Book, Amazing Adult Fantasy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Malcolm Felder, Mutable Sound on December 11, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Please excuse this bit of self-promotion, but my first prose collection, Amazing Adult Fantasy, will be put out by Mutable Sound in early February 2011. It will be available for pre-order starting this week. One of the pieces from the book’s second half, “Rock Albany!”, just went online at the Mutable site. Other pieces are [...]
Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Emily Dickinson, John Madera, Wallace Stevens on December 10, 2010 | 7 Comments »
John Domini has reminded me that 180 years ago today Dickinson was born. Recently, I was told by someone that he or she had read somewhere something about overrated writers and writing, and that someone at that somewhere said something like, “Anything by Emily Dickinson is overrated,” which brought to mind somebody saying something to [...]
In Memoriam: Cami Park
Posted in Uncategorized on December 9, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Today, the online lit community is mourning Cami Park, whose fierce very short fictions could be read all over the place in web and in print. View her full archive here — it’s a pretty fantastic mix of stuff. Cami is one of those people who ought to have had a book by now, but [...]
facebook new narrative
Posted in Uncategorized on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Experimental Thread #2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Husher of Slugs", A D Jameslug, Amber Slugs, Aya Sluginska, Big Slugger, cute slug, davis slimerman, edward mucuslany, giant slug, Greg Slugke, how to hush a slug, hush slug, J. Slug. Tyler, Jac Slemc, John Dermot Wood Slug, John Dominslug, John Slug Era, massive slug, Michael Long Slug, Molly Slugry, Night of the Agile Slug Gymnast, Night of the Jumping Slug, Night of the Nimble Slug, Night of the Slug, Night of the Slug Who Can Leap, Paul Slugcaid, Rachel Slugsky, Ryan W. Slug, slug, slug gif, Slug Scanlon, SLUG WILL NOT HUSH, slug-hushers, Stacy Slugzynski, this kills slug dead, Throbbing Gristle, throbbing slug, Tim Slug-Yelvington, Tim Slugbath on December 8, 2010 | 24 Comments »
The Big Other (Skype) Interview #71: Dave Kress
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Counting Zero, Dave Kress, Hush, Lake Forest College, Mammoth Books, The Pixies on December 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Way back on October 6, I tried a bold experiment for Lake Forest College: a Skype reading/discussion with former chemist/adhesive inventor and person extraordinaire Dave Kress, author of the challenging and wonderful novel Hush (Mammoth Books, 2010). Kress beamed in to converse with my fiction-writing workshop, and I present the results below in five installments. [...]
“Salesses makes it happen—confidently and with style.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chapbooks, Matthew Salesses, Our Island of Epidemics, PANK on December 7, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Our Island of Epidemics By Matthew Salesses 40 pp. PANK. Paper, $10.00 ISBN 978-0-9824697-3-6 Our Island of Epidemics is a collection of short, interconnected fictions that offers readers the collective consciousness of an island people who suffer from short-term memory loss, unrequited love, obsession, upstoppably growing hearts (or farts), delirious joy, confused identities, ganglions, lost [...]
Figment.com: A New Technology for the Culture Industry?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adorno, figment.com, Michel de Certeau, the culture industry on December 6, 2010 | 14 Comments »
I’m in a bit of a pessimistic mood tonight, so bear with me as I revisit some Adorno: …although the culture industry undeniably speculates on the conscious and unconscious state of the millions towards which it is directed, the masses are not primary, but secondary, they are an object of calculation; an appendage of the [...]
Which Lit Journals Publish Drama?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I’m going to look through my records, but I thought I’d ask here as well, in case anyone has suggestions. A playwright friend of mine wants to try publishing excerpts from his unpublished/unproduced plays…. Thanks!
A Reading … with Food
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
James Yeh, the hungry genius behind Gigantic, put these two ideas together. I don’t know why this doesn’t happen more often. Gigantic will be sponsoring one Brooklyn leg of this weekend’s nationwide Indie Lit Roadshow (check that link for all of the other cool stuff happening). I’ll be reading along with John Haskell and Anelise [...]
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