Archive for April, 2011
Kimiko Hahn’s THE NARROW ROAD TO THE INTERIOR
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Carole Maso, Kimiko Hahn, Rachel Blau du Plessis, The Narrow Road to the Interior, Virginia Woolf on April 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
The Narrow Road to the Interior by Kimiko Hahn, 128 pp, $14.95 1. First Impressions This book is both less and more exciting to me than the others I’ve discussed here (The Artist’s Daughter and The Unbearable Heart). It is less exciting because it’s not as penetrable, but it is more exciting because of this [...]
Joanna Russ, 1937-2011
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged farah mendlesohn, joanna russ on April 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Joanna Russ died yesterday. She wasn’t important, she was essential! I couldn’t write much about her here, I never met her, knew her only through stories by others who did. So in memory I am appending my review (first published at SF Site) of On Joanna Russ, edited by Farah Mendlesohn, a good collection of [...]
About Awards
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged arthur c clarke award, bfs award, bsfa awards, carl brandon award, Clareson Award, hugo awards, James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award, John W Campbell Memorial Award, Locus Award, nebula award, orange prize, Pioneer Award, science fiction canon, sfra on April 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It’s the awards season (honestly, I hadn’t noticed), so it is also, and inevitably, the season for debates about awards. By which I don’t mean the standard ‘how did he win?’ ‘she was robbed!’ sort of debate. More the perennial philosophical puzzle that the very existence of awards always seems to arouse (in this iteration [...]
How Do You Pronounce That Writer’s Name?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apichatpong weerasethakul, pronunciation, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives on April 29, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Last week I saw Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest magnificent film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. (It should be assumed by now that all of that man’s films are magnificent.) Of course the subject of how one pronounces his name came up…
DOOLITTLE : POEMS INSPIRED BY THE PIXIES’ EPIC ALBUM
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Art as $$$$$$$$
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Felix Salmon has an interview and piece today on a couple of art buyers/sellers that I found fascinating and sad. An excerpt: Lindemann is a fascinating character: he treats the art world as a game, with the score kept in dollars. And Dayan, of course, is a great enabler — the lesson of looking at [...]
“don’t return to a man out of loneliness” (Kimiko Hahn’s THE ARTIST’S DAUGHTER)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged don't return to a man out of loneliness, how to get laid, Kimiko Hahn's The Artist's Daughter, sexy poems on April 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’ve written about Kimiko Hahn before for Big Other, but I couldn’t help but also write a little bit about this book, too, The Artist’s Daughter. Try this poem on for taste: Not all insects but certain insects spiral above bodies of water in their courtship, the male carrying a stone fly or mayfly in [...]
WTF is The Source? WTF is Conceptual Writing? WTF do I do with The Source?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Denver Public Library, Futurepoem Noah Eli Gordon, how to teach poetry to kids, In celebration of prostitution, Kenneth Goldsmith, Moses and the Torah, the life of letters, the number 26, The Source Noah Eli Gordon, the value of libraries, What is conceptual writing, What is sadomasochistic on April 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The Source by Noah Eli Gordon, 144 Pages, 6 X 8, $16.00 1. WTF is The Source? The Source celebrates both prostitution and the life of letters. It is a touch sadomasochistic because it suffers a sense of its own belatedness, hates fussing with nature, and would like the world to be all weeds. Some think it [...]
Vote Bull
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bull, Dockers, Fiction for Thinking Men on April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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Call for Submissions: Chessstories
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Artspire, Chess, Chessstories, David Moscovich, Louffa Press, NYFA, Zeami on April 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
CHESSSTORIES Ongoing submissions are now being accepted for this visual arts/micro-fiction anthology crossbreed. The Chessstories project (sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts) is announcing an open call for submissions for vaguely chess themed works. Stories should be fifty words or less, punchy, brave, and finely crafted. That’s correct, [...]
Yuriy Tarnawsky’s Interview with Steve Tomasula
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Rain Taxi, Steve Tomasula, Yuriy Tarnawsky on April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
is now up at Rain Taxi. FYI.
Oh Death, Up Yours! (R.I.P. Poly Styrene)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ari Up, Peter Christopherson, Poly Styrene, punk, X-Ray Spex on April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s been rough recently for the punks: we lost Ari Up last October, and now comes the very sad news that Poly Styrene passed away yesterday. At least we still have the music. In memory of Ms. PS, I’ve assembled videos for the entirety of X-Ray Spex’s only but brilliant album, Germ Free Adolescents (1978).
Guest Post: Hilma Wolitzer on Stanley Elkin
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hilma Wolitzer, Stanley Elkin, Summer and Reading, The Rabbi of Lud on April 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It was such glorious fun to be Stanley Elkin’s friend as well as his reader. He was always wonderfully irreverent and free of sentimentality. Hence the questionably qualified rabbi (in The Rabbi of Lud) who attends an offshore yeshiva in the Maldive Islands, and likens the services of a “Traveling Minyan” to Meals-on Wheels and [...]
Ethics and aesthetics are one (House sitting in Brooklyn)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The curtains are pulled back, and the magnolia stands in full bloom, its petals like painted seashells collecting below. It takes up the bedroom window, only softly. In the yard off to the right, bikes, baskets, handle bars lean against a chainlink-wooden fence. A pumpkin, small and orange, sits half-submerged in the spring marsh. Through [...]
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