This 113-page novella is the centerpiece of Caponegro’s book of stories. As in the first stories (articles here, here and here), it again presents a family, but a family fragmented by misconceptions and hatred. After a prelude, most of the work takes place on New Year’s Eve and gives off the air of Long Day’s [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Reading Caponegro’s The Complexities of Intimacy: “The Son’s Burden”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mary Caponegro, The Complexities of Intimacy, The Son's Burden on February 28, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Rebekah Silverman wrote a Natalie Portman poem in a comment thread on facebook.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Babies grow strong from the strength of Natalie’s tears Natalie would never part her lips for something as pedestrian as a ‘sandwich’ Natalie doesn’t like foods that remind her of sedimentary rock Natalie’s baby speaks to her in dreams Natalie’s baby says “NO SANDWICHES” and his voice is the voice of a god
Writers Respond: A Conversation with Kristina Born
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Kristina Born, One Hour of Television, Writers Respond, Year of the Liquidator on February 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The always-lovely Kristina Born, whose book One Hour of Television was published by Year of the Liquidator, was kind enough to answer a few questions over these past several months. I am very grateful to her and I hope you’ll read on with interest.
Mezynski’s GLIMPSES available for pre-order
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Shane Jones, Kendra Grant Malone, Matthew Savoca, Neila Mezynski, Scrambler Books on February 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Scrambler Books is a righteous press (says the author whose first book was with them). Shane Jones’s A CAKE APPEARED, Kendra Grant Malone’s EVERYTHING IS QUIET, Matthew Savoca’s LONG LOVE POEM WITH DESCRIPTIVE TITLE, & now, available for pre-order, Neila Mezynski’s GLIMPSES. I’ve been reading quite a bit of Mezynski for awhile now, & I’m [...]
For Your Consideration
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Temple of Texts, William H. Gass on February 25, 2011 | 30 Comments »
Reading William H. Gass has set my mind to fire. In the essay “The Sentence Seeks Its Form” from A Temple of Texts, Gass speaks of breath as giving life to language: Breath (pneuma) has always been seen as a sign of life, and was once identified with the soul. Don’t fall for phrases like [...]
let’s go spelunking
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »
An Interview with Yuriy Tarnawsky, Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alexander Dovzhenko, Bleecker Street Cinema, Claude Simon, Cubism, Curtis White, Danylo Demutsky, Dostoyevsky, E. Power Biggs, existentialism, FC2, Fiction Collective, Glenn Gould, György Ligeti, Heinrich von Kleist, Hwbrgdtse, Iannis Xenakis, IBM, Ingmar Bergmann, Jean-Paul Sartre, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Cage, Like Blood in Water, linguistics, Luciano Berio, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marguerite Duras, Meningitis, Michael Kohlhaas, Michel Butor, Milton Babbitt, mininovel, MoMA, Natalie Sarraute, New York University, Nikolai Gogol, nouveau roman, Roads, Roads to Freedom, Robert Bresson, Ron Sukenick, Satyajit Ray, St. Thomas Church, Symphony Space, Thalia Theater, The Hypocrite, the Met, The Possessed, Three Blondes and Death, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Yuriy Tarnawsky on February 24, 2011 | 15 Comments »
I first encountered Yuriy Tarnawsky‘s writing in 1998, when I stumbled across a copy of Three Blondes and Death (FC2, 1993) in a Philadelphia bookstore. (A college professor, having noticed my interest in less-than-realist fiction, encouraged me to be on the lookout for any books published by FC2 or Dalkey Archive Press.) Three Blondes was [...]
Losing Control
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
One of the first pieces of advice I ever got about novel writing from someone who knew what they were doing was, “You’re going to have to be willing to lose control…” She gave that advice to our whole novel-writing class, but she repeated it to me in particular several times. As someone who tends [...]
On Theresa Cha, kundiman, lost books, why moving hurts, Sappho and archaic love poetry, food poisoning, The Bacchae, Tom Hardy, Hisham Matar, more Veena Das, exhaustion, indebtedness, speaking, showing, writing.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Goodman, auguste rodin, belladonna, dahil sa iyo, Democracy Now!, hisham matar, imelda marcos, jan verwoert, kundiman, libya, nat king cole, paul gsell, paul virilio, simone weil, theresa cha, tom hardy, veena das, Wittgenstein on February 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
If I were in the NYC area on March 5th, I would try to go to this: Belladonna* and Kundiman Celebrate Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Saturday, March 5, 2011; 2 – 3:30 pm On the weekend of what would have been Cha’s 60th birthday (a full life cycle event in the Chinese/Korean lunar calendar), Belladonna* [...]
a new Dark Sky book
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
from Kevin Murphy @ Dark Sky Books: Dark Sky Books is proud to announce the publication of Stephen Sturgeon’s first collection of poems, Trees of the Twentieth Century. Composed between 2005 and 2010, the poems in Trees of the Twentieth Century range in style from classically formalized stanzas on memory and vitality to allusive and [...]
A Journey in Snapshots: Joseph Riippi’s The Orange Suitcase
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2011 | 9 Comments »
The Orange Suitcase is a perfect title for this perfectly constructed book. The reader is packed up by author Joseph Riippi and whisked off on a journey, not through places but through lives–and through objects and connections gathered and treasured and sometimes broken in the duration. The titles of the short pieces that make up [...]
Big Other Contributors’ News, #24
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Amber Sparks, Big Other Contributors’ News, Davis Schneiderman, Elaine Castillo, Greg Gerke, J. A. Tyler, John Madera, Michael Leong, Molly Gaudry, Paul Kincaid, Rachel Swirsky, Stacy Muszynski on February 22, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Radiohead just released a new album; and we’ve got some news to share, too. Thanks for reading!
Look! Look! Sequins!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
[I wanted the title of this post to be: Look! Look! Feathers Sequins! ...which is what Mike Young did to the title page of his book when he signed it for me, but WordPress apparently doesn't allow formatting in titles]. I’m not prepared to call my uncle an artist. Yet every so often a man [...]
Slideshow: Costume Ideas
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A week or so ago, I was on the make for new costume ideas, so I looked at some images I bookmarked in firefox a long time ago. I decided to share them here as an album. There’s some great eye candy here. Keep in mind some of these were strictly “idea” material, so for [...]
What’s your stuff?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2011 | 13 Comments »
On facebook, Laura Ellen Scott says, “Interesting novels have stuff in them.” She suggests that rather than advertising our texts with formal reviews, we make lists of the stuff inside them. So here’s your activity for the day: In the comment thread, let’s make stuff lists. Could be your own book, could be one you [...]
Best Spam? Received this morning.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
DEAR RECEIVER, You have just received a Taliban virus. Since we are not so technologicaly advanced in Afghanistan, this is a MANUAL virus. Please delete all the files on your hard disk yourself and send this mail to everyone you know. Thank you very much for helping us. Thanks & Regards Miss Aileen
On “Deal with the Devil,” a Review by William Logan
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Deal with the Devil, Elizabeth Bishop, John Madera, William Logan on February 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago I twice read aloud Elizabeth Bishop’s complete poems, reveling in their wit, their unusual imagery, their melancholic navigation between detachment and intimacy, their suspicion of a “priceless set of vocabularies.” And then there’s the delight in the noise of birds; take, for instance, the birds in her elegiac poem “North [...]
Never Say Never: A Review (I Think)
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
One of the most striking things about the documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never is that Justin Bieber is not its protagonist. In a film composed largely of first person interviews, Bieber never addresses the camera directly to reflect upon his own career – not even to provide the sort of abstracted, clichéd, content-free sentiments [...]
Bieber Fever
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »
It isnt these lesbians resemble Justin Bieber It’s Justin Bieber resembles these lesbians I for one think of Justin Bieber as a poseable doll with candy-coated skin Coating like that velvet kind on candy-coated cake balls I keep searching the internet to find out what that kind is called, but maybe it’s just called candy [...]
Internet Graffiti and Its Discontents
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anis Shivani, Big Other, Jason Jordan, John Madera on February 19, 2011 | 79 Comments »
So, a friend sent this link to me. Clicking on the link, I discovered yet another one of these rather predictable lists listing so-called overrated writers, and when I read its title: “5 Overrated Writers,” I thought immediately of an article that appeared at Huffington Post, last year, an article which unsurprisingly inspired the list [...]
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