Recently, on Facebook, Lance Olsen mentioned that he’s in the midst of “compiling a bibliography of 100 important experimental texts for [his] in-progress Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing, a book about how to imagine one’s own work as a space of opportunities.” He asks: “[W]hat are some of the texts across place & time [...]
Archive for June, 2011
Toward a “Bibliography of Important Experimental Texts”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing, Big Other, John Madera, Lance Olsen on June 30, 2011 | 24 Comments »
The World’s Twelve Worst Books?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Circe, James Joyce, John Madera, The World's Twelve Worst Books, Ulysses on June 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The Circe episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses is a jeweled phantasmagoria; and it’s filled with incredible inventories, including one where Bloom’s “bodyguard distribute[s] Maundy money, commemoration medals, loaves and fishes, temperance badges, expensive Henry Clay cigars, free cowbones for soup, rubber preservatives in sealed envelopes tied with gold thread, butter scotch, pineapple rock, billets doux [...]
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies—Extra: Linda’s Voice-Over Narration in Days of Heaven
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Days of Heaven, Linda Manz, Roger Ebert, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life on June 28, 2011 | 13 Comments »
I’ve been teaching Days of Heaven on and off for a several years now, and I transcribed Linda Manz‘s voice-over narration because I couldn’t find it online anywhere. Besides being one of the most extraordinary aspects of the film, it ranks as some of the finest poetry of the past 35 years. Director Terrence Malick [...]
Vote! Vote! Vote! or, Warning: Shameless (Sort-of) Self-Promotion Ahead
Posted in Uncategorized on June 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Did you vote yet for your favorite in the storySouth Million Writers Award? Did you know that some of your favorite writers are up for this fabulous award for an online short story they’ve written? Like former Big Other contributor and all around fabulous lady Roxane Gay, as well as writers like Nicola Mason, Daphne [...]
Literary quality?
Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2011 | 14 Comments »
I am in the process of writing a review of a collection of dystopian stories (Brave New Worlds edited by John Joseph Adams), and there is something that is not going to make it into my review because it is really tangential to the subject, but which I still wanted to draw attention to. At [...]
Human Rights Activism and Filmmaking: Glasgow Film Theatre, June 26, 3pm.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apichatpong weerasethakul, digital desperados, glasgow film theatre, refugee week, robert vas on June 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you happen to be in Glasgow this weekend, please check out the Human Rights Activism and Filmmaking event on Sunday, June 26, at the Glasgow Film Theatre. The event will feature multiple shorts and a panel discussion, and is part of the UK-wide Refugee Week. (Tokenization alarm bells should go off here, and [...]
Panopticon
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Reading Alexandra Harris’s curious book on Romantic Moderns, I came upon a chapter describing the attitude of high modernist architects to decoration. This is best summed up in a 1908 lecture by Adolf Loos called ‘Ornament and Crime’. As Harris puts it: ‘Decoration, he suggested, encouraged vices by concealing them; ornament was the beguiling accomplice [...]
Reflections on Reflections on Michael Kimball’s Us
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It’s clear that Michael Kimball’s novel, Us, recently published by Tyrant Books, has affected many writers and readers more deeply and personally than the average novel (whatever that is). I’ve read review after review of this amazing book that turns back on itself and becomes a sort of self-examination by the reviewer. I think that [...]
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 6)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1979, What Were You Doing in 1979? on June 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
James Brown, whose career was about to experience a resurgence, released The Original Disco Man. James Chance & the Contortions released their first and only album, Buy.
Help support Vouched/Big Car, Please Please Please
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Car, christopher newgent, Support Indie LIt, Vouched Books on June 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The following message comes from Christopher Newgent. I hope you’ll give it your consideration! __________ Big Car Arts Collective is in the running for a $25,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant to support our new community space here in Indy called Service Center for Contemporary Culture + Community! The top 15 projects get funded. We are in the final push at 9th [...]
The Great Detective
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I am slowly working my way through the complete Sherlock Holmes stories, something I haven’t done for a few years. There is so much to explore in them. For instance, a post-colonial reading based on the number of adventures that have their roots in America or India; or a republican reading based on the number [...]
Announcing the launch of MadHat Press with a poetry chapbook competition
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, Advanced Elvis Course, CAConrad, chapbook, competition, Deviant Propulsion, Factory School Press, Frank Sherlock, MadHat Press, PACE, Philadelphia, PhillySound, poetry, Soft Skull Press, the book of frank, The City Real & Imagined, Wave Books on June 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
MadHat Press is the non-profit imprint arm of the multimedia e-zine, Mad Hatters’ Review and a production of MadHat Arts Inc. MadHat Press seeks to foster the work of writers and poets: explosive, lyrical, passionate, deeply wrought voices that stretch the boundaries of language, narrative and image, vital and enduring literary voices that sing on [...]
The Gary Wilson / John Cage / David Tudor Axis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ariel Pink, Beck, David Tudor, Gary Wilson, John Cage, The Residents on June 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ve long known that Gary Wilson was a freak (of the most beautiful variety). And I’ve long known about his influence on contemporary musicians like Beck, Ariel Pink, The Residents. But until this morning, I didn’t know about his connection with John Cage and David Tudor. From a 2008 interview with Wilson:
Books lost between California and England. (Also on Head-On, Birol Ünel, blood, Pierre Loti, Lea Salonga, appendicitis in Paris, flirtations, transoceanic accents, impossible eulogies, Patroclus and Achilles, lost things, holes, giving yourself up.)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Viktor Shklovsky, Irma Vep, Anne Carson, simone weil, Homer, masha tupitsyn, birol ünel, gegen die wand, head-on, sibel kekilli, sappho, kim hyesoon, rilke, happy together, wong kar-wai, achilles, patroclus, the iliad, rachel bespaloff, lea salonga, pierre loti, mulan, miss saigon, madame butterfly, fatih akin, mfk fisher, librairie galignani, hôpital cochin, hôtel-dieu, olivier assayas, nathalie richard, maggie cheung, tony leung on June 16, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Nearly two years ago, when I moved to England from California, I had a box of books shipped over from California to England. The box was full of books, some of which were my most beloved books, and some of which were books I needed to finish the novel I was writing. At the same [...]
Calling All Indie Presses: Send Your Books to Croatia!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Croatia, independent publishers, Natalija Grgorinic, Ognjen Raden, ZVONA i NARI on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hi all, I just received the following letter from Natalija Grgorinic & Ognjen Raden, and after corresponding with them a bit I will certainly be sending a few Cow Heavy titles their way, for inclusion in their exhibition and to find a permanent home afterward in a library in a country far, far away, which I [...]
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