From Yahoo Mail: Cf. Antonioni’s 1975 masterpiece The Passenger: (Notice how this clip’s presented by Audi? Even horrible corporations love Maria Schneider!)
Archive for March, 2011
I know I prefer auto ads when they swipe from Antonioni films
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Audi, cars, Maria Schneider, Michelangelo Antonioni, The Passenger, Yahoo Mail on March 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Of A Monstrous Anthology
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Hempel, Brian Evenson, James Harris, Lost Horse Press, Nate Liederbach, Of A Monstrous Child, Rick Moody, Robert Wrigley, Ryan Boudinot, Zachary Schomburg. on March 8, 2011 | 10 Comments »
At AWP I spent 99% of my time at the Artistically Declined Press table at the bookfair. Two tables down from me was the Lost Horse Press table. Lost Horse is one of my favorite presses. Their books are beautiful and they have published some of my favorite people and poets. Anyway, I became friendly, [...]
“The 20 Greatest Liquid Television Segments”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aeon Flux, Chris Cummins, Christoph Simon, geek culture, Liquid Television, MTV, Peter Chung, Television, Topless Robot, Was (Not Was) on March 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I don’t usually link to this kind of thing, but this list, from geek culture site Topless Robot, is worth peeking at for a few reasons: It’s understandably nostalgic for a time when some pretty unusual stuff made it onto mainstream television*—check out, for instance, at number 20, the Was (Not Was)/Christoph Simon video, “Dad [...]
I am now the nonfiction and reviews editor at the online journal Requited.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, book reviews, nonfiction, Requited, Rosemary Horn on March 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
What the title says. (You’ll find Requited here.) Anyone interested in submitting essays, books for consideration, or reviews is invited to email me. (My email address is scattered about this site; you can also find me on Facebook.) A few guiding notes: Nonfiction: I’m looking primarily for creative, daring, compelling stuff. The more out of [...]
Contemporary Verse Novels: Jacques Roubaud’s SOME THING BLACK and Alix Cleo Roubaud’s ALIX’S JOURNAL
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alix cleo roubaud, alix's journal, dalkey archive, Jacques Roubaud, some thing black on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I first heard about these two books from M. Kitchell’s post at HTML Giant. I went to the Dalkey Archives website and read: “In 1983 Jacques Roubaud’s wife Alix Cleo died at the age of 31 of a pulmonary embolism. The grief-stricken author responded with one brief poem (“Nothing”), then fell silent for thirty months.“ [...]
Big Other and Vol. 1 Brooklyn Present: Marcy Dermansky, Norman Lock, and Lincoln Michel
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jason Diamond, John Madera, Lincoln Michel, Marcy Dermansky, Norman Lock, Tobias Carroll, Vol.1 Brooklyn on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:00pm – 10:00pm Brooklyn Winery 213 N. 8th Street Brooklyn, NY RSVP here. Marcy Dermansky is the author of the novels Bad Marie and Twins. Marcy’s short fiction has been published widely in literal journals and anthologies, including McSweeney’s, Indiana Review, Mississippi Review and Fifty-Two Stories. A former MacDowell fellow, Marcy [...]
Learning to read Adam Roberts
Posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Every critic has a blind spot, an author for whose work the general acclaim seems mystifying. Any critic worth their salt recognizes these blind spots. One of mine is Adam Roberts. We were both tutors on the SF Masterclass a year or so back and the experience was electrifying. I have a lot of time [...]
Food as Device
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Art as Device, enstrangement, Fresh Air, Grant Achatz, Terry Gross, Theory of Prose, Viktor Shklovsky on March 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Anybody who knows me knows this passage. I am constantly quoting it: [H]eld accountable for nothing, life fades into nothingness. Automatization eats away at things, at clothes, at furniture, at our wives, at our fear of war. […] And so, in order to return sensation to our limbs, in order to make us feel objects, [...]
Contemporary Verse Novels and Anne Carson’s AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED, Selah Saterstrom’s THE PINK INSTITUTION, and C. A. Conrad’s THE BOOK OF FRANK
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anne Carson, autobiography of red, c.a. conrad, family, Hybrid, Selah Saterstrom, teaching, the book of frank, The Pink Institution, verse novels on March 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been reading and comparing Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, Selah Saterstrom’s The Pink Institution, and C. A. Conrad’s The Book of Frank. What these three books have in common (besides being among my top favorites) is that they offer, through short, fragmented sections, isolated snapshots of a family. It isn’t until the reader finishes [...]
Plunging Puigward: Welcome to La Plata, Mosca
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Fake Fruit Factory, Manuel Puig, William Gaddis on March 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »
If you’ve been keeping up (or, like me, struggling to keep up) with the Big Other Book Club thus far, you’ve at least dipped into Tom McCarthy’s C and a Mary Caponegro story or two. And in so doing, you’ve experienced some delectable, rich, intricately-knotted sentences. McCarthy’s writing felt mechanical at times to me, or [...]
THE IMPOSSIBLE
Posted in Uncategorized on March 4, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I think this concept is cool. While some of us expand our reach, how about some of us also limit it. I’m an all of the above and all of the below kind of guy. I think it would be awesome if the website played this song on a constant loop:
One Foot in the Urn
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A History of English Prose Rhythm, George Saintsbury, Hydriotaphia or Urne Buriall, Sir Thomas Browne, W.G. Sebald on March 3, 2011 | 14 Comments »
“…the iniquity of oblivion blindely scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.” – Urne-Buriall, page 84 Sir Thomas Browne wrote Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall or, A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk in 1658. Just a few months ago New Directions reprinted the book [...]
Sparling in May
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Intention Implication Wind, Ken Sparling, Pedlar Press on March 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Intention Implication Wind from Pedlar Press The back cover contains this quote from Sparling’s Big Other interview (the best author interview I’ve ever read, with incredible insights into Gordon Lish and Cormac McCarthy): No sentence can be subservient. You can’t afford to entertain a sentence that doesn’t have within it the strength of the entire [...]
Adoration of the Mage
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, John Madera, Klee Dead, Pricksongs and Descants, Rob Brezsny, Robert Coover, Seven Exemplary Fictions on March 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Sweet! Actors Reading Writers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ashley Marinaccio, Austin Mitchell, David Loewy, Emily Warshaw, Greg Gerke, John Haskell, Mark Emerson, Mira Ptacin, Molly Gaudry, Susan Tepper, Sweet! Actors Reading Writers on March 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Where Three of Cups, 83 First Ave @ 5th St. (F/V to Second Ave) When THIS THURSDAY, March 3rd, 7:30pm These actors… Mark Emerson David Loewy Ashley Marinaccio Austin Mitchell Emily Warshaw Will be reading these writers… PICASSO’S HEART and other poems by Molly Gaudry FINDING AND FAULTING by Greg Gerke GERMANY by John Haskell [...]
A Review of Norman Lock’s Grim Tales, by Paul Charles Griffin
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Grim Tales, Norman Lock, Paul Charles Griffin on March 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Are kitty fuckers the new faggots?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Kevin Killian’s “Zoo Story” (which appeared in his collection Little Men and was reprinted in 2009′s Impossible Princess) is about a dude with a fetish for big cats and an obsession with Nastassja Kinski’s character in the 1982 remake of the erotic thriller Cat People. Kevin’s story seems to anticipate two items that appeared in [...]
Killian’s Oscars
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Kevin Killian’s hilarious report on the Oscars has all of Kevin’s signature moves — a destabilizing mixture of intellectualism, free-association and straight-up fanboi swoon. Hopefully our friend A D Jameson will draw some pleasure from Kevin’s assessment of Inception: “Then there was Inception, so ill it needs its own paragraph, to isolate it, to quarantine [...]
…and the Discussion on Race and Class Continues…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2011 | 25 Comments »
A few months ago, partly inspired by Roxane Gay’s excellent post in HTMLGIANT, I wrote about class and race and writing here. After reading one of my longish comments on that piece about race and the complexities of writing characters of color as a white woman, writer Michael Copperman emailed me and we had a [...]
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