Ben Loory‘s Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day is one of the nicest-looking, nicest-feeling books you will ever hold in your hands. But do not be fooled. The tales inside are not nice stories. Even the ones that sort of end up happily–they don’t behave and play by the rules at all. Loory’s [...]
Archive for August, 2011
A Summary of Everything I’ve Written at Big Other
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Roman Jakobson, Russian Formalism, the dominant on August 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The shifting, the transformation, of the relationship between individual artistic components became the central issue in Formalist investigations. [...] It was the Formalist research which clearly demonstrated that shifting and change are not only historical statements (first there was A, and then A1 arose in place of A) but that shift is also a directly [...]
Ken Sparling and Jonathan Goldstein at CBC
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CBC, Intention Implication Wind, Jonathan Goldstein, Ken Sparling, Lenny Bruce is Dead on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
CBC has a great new series that “looks into the symbiotic relationship between writers and their editors.” One of the first pairings is Ken Sparling and Jonathan Goldstein. Sparling edited Goldstein’s work and his take on the experience is here. Goldstein’s is here. Goldstein’s debut novel was Lenny Bruce is Dead. Sparling’s latest is Intention, [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 25 / 41, Miranda Mellis’ THE REVISIONIST
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calamari Press, J. A. Tyler, Miranda Mellis on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Click through to read the full review of Miranda Mellis’ THE REVISIONIST, the twenty-fifth in this full-press review of Calamari books.
Cecilia Vicuña’s SABORAMI (Chain Arts, forthcoming)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cecilia Vicuña, Chain Arts, SABORAMI on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
First published in 1973, two months after the military coup in Chile, Cecilia Vicuña’s SABORAMI is a document of the times and the way in which history can change art. It is filled with the urgent hope that art, too, can change history. Put together when Vicuña was just twenty-five years old, the poems, paintings, [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 24 / 41, Derek White’s POSTE RESTANTE
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calamari Press, Derek White, J. A. Tyler on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Click through to read the full review of Derek White’s POSTE RESTANTE, the twenty-fourth in this full-press review of Calamari books.
Requited Journal is now publishing reviews
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gregory Feeley, Kentauros, NHR Books, Paul Kincaid, Requited Journal on August 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
As I mentioned a while back, I’m now the nonfiction and reviews editor at Requited, an online journal. My first issue as nonfiction editor went up at the beginning of July. This week, the reviews section was established, and I’m pleased to announce that the first review is up: Paul Kincaid’s take on Gregory Feeley’s [...]
In Memory of Raúl Ruiz (a guest post by Jeremy M. Davies)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, J. Hoberman, Jeremy M. Davies, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Mysteries of Lisbon, Poetics of Cinema, Raúl Ruiz, Raoul Ruiz, Three Crowns of the Sailor on August 20, 2011 | 8 Comments »
These are the days that try cinephiles’ souls, and I suppose one may give one’s penchant for hyperbole a little extra elbow room on such mornings. Suffice to say that if I had a favorite living filmmaker, Ra(o)úl Ruiz was he. The only film course I’ve ever taught was on Ruiz; I’ve proselytized for him [...]
My Personal Literary Aesthetic, Laid Out Nicely for Me By Harold Bloom
Posted in Uncategorized on August 19, 2011 | 26 Comments »
When people ask me why I write what I do, or read the things I do, I tend to use the word ‘mystery’ a lot. Not as in ‘gumshoe’ or ‘whodunnit. I mean, I guess, the sort of mystery that you feel in the back of your head when you watch Kubrick, or listen to [...]
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 16)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1979, What Were You Doing in 1979? on August 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Werner Herzog released Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. Walter Hill released The Warriors.
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 15)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1979, What Were You Doing in 1979? on August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Jam released Setting Sons. The Kinks released Low Budget.
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 14)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1979, What Were You Doing in 1979? on August 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The B-52′s released their debut album, The B-52′s. Talking Heads, who were breaking into the mainstream, released Fear of Music.
Litseen: The Complete Guide to the Bay Area Literary Community
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Evan Karp, Litseen, Quiet Lightning on August 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Litseen is the brain child of Evan Karp (who also founded the enormously popular Quiet Lightning Reading Series). It’s a wonderful site with extensive run-downs of readings, features, as well as book reviews (and books you are invited to review). Check it out!
The cover of Roxane Gay’s AYITI reminds me of the opening credits for PANIC ROOM
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alfred Hitchcock, AYITI, David Fincher, North by Northwest, Panic Room, René Magritte, Roxane Gay, Saul Bass, Voice of Space on August 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Which is also to say—
Marianne Moore/Gary Lutz
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gary Lutz, John Latta, Marianne Moore on August 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There is a wonderful article by John Latta at his blog about Marianne Moore, Gary Lutz, and their aesthetics. “…it occurs to me that the inheritor of…Moore’s lovely rhythmic sense…is Gary Lutz.”
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