Before I say anything else, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Chris Newgent for all of the time and energy he has put into our efforts to bring you the next nine words: WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE LIT PUB! I’d like to also thank Matt Bell for his excellent advice during [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Welcome to The Lit Pub . . .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Robinson, christopher newgent, Corey Beasley, Dan Wickett, Dave Kiefaber, David Blomenberg, Elizabeth Taddonio, Erika Moya, Ethel Rohan, Fuzzco, Jacqueline Kari, Jordan Blum, Kevin Sampsell, Kristina Born, Lidia Yuknavitch, M. M. Wittle, Mark Cugini, Matt Bell, Michael Griffith, Mike Bushnell, Mike Young, Nicelle Davis, Ofelia Hunt, Richard Nash, The Lit Pub, Zach Dodson on May 31, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Poetry vs. Pop Culture (or, Does Anyone Dance to John Berryman?)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged B.S. Johnson, Brian Wilson, confessional poetry, Craig Finn, Daniel Radcliffe, Gil Scott-Heron, Harry Potter, Jack Kerouac, John Berryman, Kanye West, Los Campesinos!, Michael Leong, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, NME, Okkervil River, On the Road, Paula Bomer, Pitchfork Media, readings, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, The Dream Songs, The Hold Steady on May 31, 2011 | 36 Comments »
I was going to post this as a comment on Michael’s wonderful post from yesterday, but then it got too long (big surprise), and then I wanted to embed a couple of videos (bigger surprise). Paula commented there: Although I understand the annoying snobbery of the Times review and other critical writing, I think the [...]
In Memory of Gil Scott-Heron
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bill Callahan, Brian Jackson, Brook Benton, Common, Gil Scott-Heron, Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Robert Johnson, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised on May 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I just found out that Gil Scott-Heron passed away last Friday, at the age of 62. That’s really too bad. A poet and pioneer of hip hop, Scott-Heron was also the originator of the phrase “the revolution will not be televised,” in the song of the same name, which appeared on his classic album Small [...]
Pop culture & “the anxiety of contamination”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged After the Great Divide, Andreas Huyssen, Dana Jennings, Days of Our Lives, Dean Young, Dorianne Laux, Jim Moore, Laura Kasischke, ninjas, Pirates of the Caribbean, poetry and popular culture, Stieg Larsson, Tom Sexton on May 30, 2011 | 15 Comments »
There’s a curious poetry review that appeared in yesterday’s online New York Times by Dana Jennings entitled “Five Poets Seasoned By Life”; it covers new books by Dean Young, Dorianne Laux, Jim Moore, Tom Sexton, and Laura Kasischke. What caught my eye was the way Jennings insistently framed the books as alternatives (and antitheses) to the summer blockbuster: Any one of [...]
Do You Know Who Wrote Big Fish?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Fish, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, Pierre Bayard on May 27, 2011 | 11 Comments »
I’m teaching it at the moment. And, inspired by Pierre Bayard’s How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, I’ve been encouraging my students to read the cultural context surrounding the book in addition to the words on the page. Today, we conducted a very unscientific survey. Of the 26 people my students spoke with…
Experimental Thread #4: “Taking a Line for a Walk”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beanie Babies, Britney Spears, dogs, insects, moa, Paul Klee, soup, Sting, Wolf Blitzer on May 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Dogs have fur.
Cotner and Fitch are making Juice on YouTube!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Robinson, andy fitch, cooking the books, emily gould, jon cotner on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My neighbor Jon Cotner just shared this video of his recent appearance, with his writing partner Andy Fitch, on Emily Gould’s Cooking the Books. In the vein of Adam Robinson’s rumored, but yet-to-be-aired, Culinary Genius, Gould’s show features writers in her kitchen. (She assures us the writers are famous, though, unlike Robinson.) Jon and Andy [...]
A poem for Thursday: “Present Tense,” Harryette Mullen, from Sleeping with the Dictionary.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged harryette mullen, poetry, present tense, sleeping with the dictionary on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Now that my ears are connected to a random answer machine, the wrong brain keeps talking through my hat. Now that I’ve been licked all over by the English tongue, my common law spout is suing for divorce. Now that the Vatican has confessed and the White House has issued an apology, I can forgive [...]
Art as Inheritance, part 3: Reverse Chronology
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2000AD, 500 Days of Summer, 5x2, Alan Moore, Annie Hall, Atom Egoyan, Bakha satang (Peppermint Candy), Betrayal (play), C. H. Sisson, Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Homm, Christopher Nolan, Coldplay, David Bordwell, David Hugh Jones, Dead Island, Doom House, Edward Lewis Wallant, ER, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, François Ozon, Gaspar Noé, George Furth, George S. Kaufman, Goodbye to the Past, Happy End, Harold Pinter, Iain M. Banks, Irréversible, Jamie Thraves, Jane Campion, Jay DiPietro, Jean Epstein, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jonathan Nolan, Kenneth Biller, Kurt Vonnegut, La glace à trois faces, Lee Chang-dong, Leon Prochnik's short film The Existentialist, Luis Buñuel, Marc Webb, Martin Amis, Memento, Merrily We Roll Along, Michel Gondry, Mike White, Mood House, Moss Hart, Oldrich Lipský, Peter and Vandy, Pull My Daisy, Quantum Leap, reverse chronology, Russell Banks, Sealab 2021, Seinfeld, Shrabster, Slaughterhouse-five, Spike Jonez, Star Trek: Voyager, Stephen Sondheim, Techland, The Bridge at San Luis Rey, The Human Season, The Pet Shop Boys, The Pharcyde, The Reversible Man, The Sweet Hereafter, The X-Files, Thornton Wilder, Time's Arrow, Two Friends, Use of Weapons, W. R. Burnett, Woody Allen on May 25, 2011 | 19 Comments »
I’ve been doing some research into reverse chronology (for the follow-up to my post “From ‘Doom House’ to ‘Mood House’”), and I thought I’d compile the results here. Reverse chronology is probably as old as narration itself. Once one has the idea of telling a story forward, it’s a simple enough matter to tell it [...]
Two new books that are on my shelf and now I just need time time time to read them:
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Carrie McLaren, chuck d, Craig Baldwin, Danger Mouse, David Banash, David Tetzlaff, Davis Schneiderman, Douglas Kahn, Duke University Press, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Gábor Vályi, Hank Shocklee, Jeff Chang, Jonathan Lethem, Joshua Clover, Kembrew McLeod, kembrew mcSpuyten Duyvil, Lloyd Dunn, Lorraine Morales Cox, Marcus Boon, Multifesto: A Henri d'Mescan Reader, Negativland, Philo T. Farnsworth, Pierre Joris, Rob Latham, Rudolf Kuenzli, Three Sea Monsters, Tod Thilleman, Warner Special Products, William S. Burroughs on May 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »
1) Three Sea Monsters: Our History of Whose Image, Tod Thilleman. Spuyten Duyvil. Thilleman, the Maurice Girodias behind Spuyten Duyvil (publisher of my novel Multifesto: A Henri d’Mescan Reader), always intrigues me with his probing take on modernism-into-postmodernism and his careful attention to the rhythmic packaging of language. 2) Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist [...]
For Your Consideration IV – Gass/Stein/Music
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Temple of Texts, Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, Henry James, Joyce, Three Lives, William H. Gass on May 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
“Why hadn’t I known long before reading Stein–was I such a dunce?–that the art was in the music–it was Joyce’s music, it was James’s music, it was Faulkner’s music; without the music, words fell to earth in prosy pieces; without the music, there was only comprehension, and comprehension may have been analysis, may have been [...]
Amazing Adult Fantasy Release Party & Reading
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Amanda Marbais, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Giant Slugs, Halle Butler, H_NGM_N, Jeremy M. Davies, Matt Dube, Mutable Sound, New Wave Coffee, readings, Rose Alley on May 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I hope that those of you in the Chicagoland area can make it out to a release party and reading for my first book, Amazing Adult Fantasy: Friday, 3 June, 7–9pm | New Wave Coffee, 3103 W. Logan Blvd. / 2557 N. Milwaukee Ave., Logan Square, Chicago | 773-489-0646 There will be readings by:
Malick’s Tree of Life wins the Palme D’Or and a great look at Lynch and Mulholland Drive
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cannes Film Festival 2011, David Lynch, Mulholland Drive, Terrence Malick, Tree of Life on May 23, 2011 | 29 Comments »
Tree of Life opens this Friday in the United States. Wonderful behind the scenes footage of Lynch orchestrating Mulholland Drive:
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 3)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1979, What Were You Doing in 1979? on May 21, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Bauhaus released “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.” Brooke Shields was starring in The Blue Lagoon.
On New York, a Philosophical City
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
New York is a philosophical city, a city of love and strife, of ruthless ambition and holy luck, of fluid social mobility and clotted social distinctions. Here there is refinement which is then papered over by the new nouveau riche. And there is always the new nouveau riche: the barbarians supplanting the decadents. A philosophical [...]
Announcing My First Novel, Giant Slugs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, A Defense of Poetry, Action Yes, elimae, Epic of Gilgamesh, Gabriel Gudding, Giant Slugs, Lawrence and Gibson, Michael Kelly, Rhode Island Notebook, Richard Meros, Shane Fairhall, Stephanie Nadeau, The Collagist, Ulrich Haarbürste's Novel of Roy Orbison in Cling-film on May 19, 2011 | 13 Comments »
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