Criticizing Dwight Garner’s reviews of poets is nothing new at Big Other. Two days ago on Elizabeth Bishop’s 100th Birthday, the New York Times ran his review of her correspondence with the New Yorker. It is a lukewarm take stating the book is more for completists–understandably so. I do find issue with Garner’s gloss on [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Dwight Around Your Lips or the Third Thing that Killed Off Elizabeth Bishop
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dwight Garner, Elizabeth Bishop, New York Times, The New Yorker, Tupac Shakur on February 10, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Reading Caponegro: “The Daughter’s Lamentation”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Giotto, Lamenatation, Mary Caponegro, The Complexities of Intimacy on February 10, 2011 | 19 Comments »
The first story in Mary Caponegro’s book we are reading for February is “The Daughter’s Lamentation.” Caponegro follows the word to its root, as this “story” is more lamentation; that is a song, poem or piece of music that laments–expresses grief or regret. The daughter, unnamed, is a women who has returned to her family [...]
Guest Post: Paula Bomer: McCarthy’s Anton Chigurh and the Meaning of Violence
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men, Paula Bomer on February 9, 2011 | 30 Comments »
When I wake up and drink my tea, I lie in bed and stare out my window. There is a tree outside of my bedroom window that has branches that resemble, to me, a man running forward, with his arms outstretched. I project this onto the tree—this vision—and soon enough I also see other branches [...]
Sequined Like a Baby
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
(after Ito Hiromi as trans by Jeffrey Angles) Right now, I want To focus on the sentence “On days I can wear sequins, I masturbate” At the same time, one could also say “On days I can wear sequins, I do not masturbate” At the same time, one could also say “On days I cannot [...]
This is from a Judith Butler-themed zine from 1993 that my boss found when she cleaned out her office.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
16 Sequined Encounters at AWP
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2011 | 19 Comments »
**edit, re: #8. Turns out the dream conversation and the Ke$ha conversation were two different conversations. Katie Manning had a dream about me. I talked to Carina Finn about Ke$ha. AWP is confusing. Also, I’m adding a photograph at Molly’s suggestion. 1. The high point of my weekend (or one of them, anyway) was when [...]
Free John Waters tickets!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Very limited # of *free* tickets to see John Waters in Lake Forest on March 24, 7:30 pm, brought to you by Lake Forest College. Contact Dolores Lotysz at the college at Lotysz@lakeforest.edu, ext. 6029. http://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/programs/english/lflf.php UPDATE: if contacting via email, send contact info (address and email) and # of tix you want (1 or [...]
Contest! Give us your shittiest love stories! Win an advance copy of J.A. Tyler’s new book.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2011 | 6 Comments »
There are two things you may or may not already know: 1)Our very own J.A. Tyler has an exciting new book coming out soon, from Fugue State Press, A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed. A little bit about the book, straight from the Fugue State site: This is a man [...]
Diabolical Political Art
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“For me, great political art almost always has a diabolical element. And it is almost always fragmented, singular, against the totalizing spirit. It rejects the comfort and pretensions of the first person plural.” –James Pate on political art, at Montevidayo
A few online SF/F recommendations with broad appeal, 2011
Posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been reading like crazy because it’s award season. I wanted to share some links that I thought people might like. I feel like it was a really good year for published sf/f. I found lots of stories I’m enthusiastic about, and lots of new authors. Discovering great new fiction and great new authors is [...]
The Loveliness I Met in Pank 5
Posted in Uncategorized on February 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I have short work in Pank 5. But I don’t read my own writing in journals. I read what else is in them. & in PANK No. 5, holy shit, a whirlwind. Click through to read some of the lovelies I met there:
Save Our Libraries
Posted in Uncategorized on February 5, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I can’t remember the first time I used a library, but I was little and it was housed in a very big very old very ornate building in the middle of my home town, and there were a few years back then when I have more memories of time in the library than of just [...]
Bone Bouquet Volume 2, Issue 1, Winter 2011
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged amy king, Becca Klaver, Bone Bouquet, claire hero, Dana Teen Lomax, James Tate, Krystal Languell, VIDA on February 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In “20 Questions” (which is collected in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book), Barbara Barg ironically presents the following multiple choice question: 12. Women writers a) are only concerned with content b) don’t have happy marriages c) should always have men edit their works d) are naturally gullible d) [sic] are always referred to as “women writers” Obviously, the correct choice is no [...]
In Memory of Maria Schneider
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bernardo Bertolucci, Jack Nicholson, Last Tango in Paris, Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roger Ebert, The Passenger on February 4, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Maria Schneider, the female lead in two of my all-time favorite films, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris (1972) and Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger (1975), died yesterday from cancer. This depresses me quite a bit, actually—Schneider was a tremendous actor who never really got the credit she deserved for her remarkable performances in each of [...]
Happy Year of the Rabbit!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Lynch, Wallace Stevens on February 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Gung Hay Fat Choy! I missed Wallace Stevens week last fall because of a hectic schedule, but here’s “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts” to celebrate the occasion: The difficulty to think at the end of day, When the shapeless shadow covers the sun And nothing is left except light on your fur— There was the [...]
February’s Big Other Book Club – Mary Caponegro
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mary Caponegro, The Complexities of Intimacy on February 2, 2011 | 9 Comments »
This month we will be reading The Complexities of Intimacy by Mary Caponegro. It’s a book of 4 short stories and a novella. I will be posting on each story. Let’s try to do the first three short stories in the next ten days. The 120-page novella we can examine in the second half of [...]
As Chicago Succumbs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cannibal! The Musical, Matt Stone, Trey Parker on February 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Elizabeth Bishop at 100
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Bishop at 100, John Madera, The Fish on February 1, 2011 | 8 Comments »
After taking a detour from my reading of The Portrait of a Lady (with its grand style and intricacies, it’s the best, so far, of James’s novels (I’m reading them chronologically)) to read what turned out to be one of the worst novels I’ve ever read, I flushed out my brain by reading Emily Dickinson’s [...]
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