“When someone wears sequins, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.” — Billy, age 4 “Sequins is what makes you smile when you’re tired.” — Terri, age 4 “Sequins is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Actual Children’s Answers to the Question: What is Sequins?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Introduction by the Lit Diva Extraordinaire
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
All sequins is false. * All sequins is perfect. * All sequins is a revival. * All sequins is adopted. * All sequins is secondhand. * All sequins is organic. * All sequins is single. * All sequins is sentimental. * All sequins is guilty. * All sequins is sneaking. * All sequins is happy. [...]
this is something something pre-order worthy
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I Know Nothing About Translating(ion), a review of Z213: EXIT by Dimitris Lyacos, translated by Shorsha Sullivan
Posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2011 | 4 Comments »
What I know of translation comes from some naïve college years where I thought I could pick up the original French version of Camus’ THE STRANGER &, by reading it alongside an English translation, learn French. This was a stupid idea & a fruitless endeavor, but I did learn one thing: translating is pivotal. Only [...]
High C
Posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but since Jac has brought up the upcoming book club discussion of C, I want to point out that Maureen Kincaid Speller is in the middle of a series of posts about the book. You’ll find the first two here and here. Go visit, I think [...]
Well flabber my ghast!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I have just learned that my series of four posts on Big Other last summer, Blogging the Hugos: Decline, has been shortlisted for the BSFA Non-Fiction Award. This is unexpected and not a little pleasing.
Dante 2020-3: Cleansing as Carnival, Tree as Anchor.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beatrice, Dante, Dante's Inferno, Divine Comedy, Earthly Paradise, Eunoe, Lethe, Lolita, Lucifer, Nabokov, Nimrod, Purgatorio, Purgatory, Salvador Dalí, terza rime, William Blake on January 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Twice in recent days, I’ve posted stages in a developing idea about Dante’s Divine Comedy. The work is coming up on its 700th birthday, yet its impact seems greater than ever, and we have to ask why. My own answer appeared first, in different form, in Southwest Review. Now, we climb towards salvation, led on [...]
Reminder: Reading of C is Underway!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged C, Tom McCarthy on January 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hey, y’all. I’m about halfway through C by Tom McCarthy, our January book club selection, if you don’t recall. You still have two weeks to join the discussion. I’m going to kick things off with some ideas of who I’d cast in the movie version of this book. I bet there will be a movie [...]
When is the modern?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2011 | 10 Comments »
I am engaging (I think that is the right word, at least if you think in terms of a military engagement) with Gabriel Josipovici’s argumentative essay, What Ever Happened to Modernism? (and I am curious about the refusal to use ‘Whatever’). It’s a book that raises new questions with every page, but the first question [...]
There and then
Posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Many years ago, when I was in my early to mid-teens, I was for a while addicted to the novels of Agatha Christie. I had nearly all of them, in those slim Fontana paperbacks, on the shelves above my bed. Though I’m not sure that I ever read any of them more than once. Christie [...]
Hello. I’m Shelley Duvall.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Notes on Sequins
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Sequins is one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon. Sequins is as well a quality discoverable in objects and the behavior of persons. Sequins emphasizes texture, sensuous surface, and style. Some sequins merits the most serious admiration and study. The more we study sequins, the less we care for nature. All sequins [...]
Hello.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Elaine Castillo on January 14, 2011 | 25 Comments »
Hi, I’m Elaine Castillo. Usually I write over at the PANK blog and my personal one; now it seems I’ll be writing for Big Other, too. Exciting! Many thanks to John Madera for the invitation and to Tim Jones-Yelvington for the recommendation. And a shy hello to the wonderful current contributors, whose posts I have [...]
SMALL PRESS SHOWCASE
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chax Press, EtherDome Chapbooks, Fact-Simile Editions, Flim Forum Press, Highway 101 Press, Instance Press, Lunar Chandelier, Nightboat Books, Toadlily Press on January 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday, February 3rd 7:30-9:30pm at The Fridge 516 8th Street, SE Washington DC http://www.thefridgedc.com FEATURING: Charles Alexander (Chax Press) Amy Allara (Highway 101 Press) Andrea Bates (Toadlily Press) James Belfower (Instance Press) Joe Elliot (Lunar Chandelier) Jennifer Karmin (Flim Forum Press) Laura Moriarty (Nightboat Books) Hoa Nguyen (Fact-Simile Editions) Sarah Suzor (EtherDome Chapbooks) The event [...]
REVOLUTION
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Dante 2020-2: Nothing so Claustrophobic as a Castle
Posted in Uncategorized on January 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
A couple of days back, I posted the first of my thoughts about Dante’s Divine Comedy. With the 700th anniversary of the work approaching, its impact seems greater than ever, and we have to ask why. My own answer appeared first in a different, longer piece in Southwest Review, and my thanks to them. Now, [...]
No Ending to The Recognitions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged The Recognitions, William Gaddis on January 13, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It took nearly five months but I managed to read all the words in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions. In honor of Old Masters use of triptych (Wyatt, the main character forges old Flemish paintings), this is the third in a series about reading the novel. The first concerning descriptions of the sun and the second [...]
New Gass Interview
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Elizabeth Tucker, John Madera, William Gass on January 12, 2011 | 9 Comments »
When Greg Gerke told me that there was a new interview with William Gass, I, of course, was excited, only to be dismayed by the format: brief, and often silly questions (e.g., “8. What’s your favorite color?”), with brief one- to two-line answers; but I was glad to find, unsurprisingly, that Gass still shines within [...]
Writing and Mortality
Posted in Uncategorized on January 10, 2011 | 27 Comments »
A year or two ago, an article made the rounds which had collected ten pieces of writing advice from a number of famous authors. Some of the advice was irritating, some was true but banal, some was presumably profound, and some were amusing for their own sake. One piece of advice that got picked up [...]
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