There’s a new GrubHub ad in my subway stop: In case you can’t quite make it out, the freakishly anthropomorphic hot dog is offering a flower to the similarly grotesque female bun. (We know she’s gynecomorphous due to the employment of a convention tried and true since the time of Ms. Pac-Man: she’s wearing a [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Oh, C’mon, GrubHub!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advertising, GrubHub, Little Murders, Logan Square, Ms. Pac-Man on September 27, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Did you know people are occupying Wall Street? Right now?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Occupy Wall Street, Susan Sarandon on September 27, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Mainstream media will have you think not, but just since yesterday Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, and as I write this, Susan Sarandon have joined the forces. The livestream of what is going on is here. Their website. I am heading there this afternoon. It’s the closest thing in this country to anything that is trying [...]
Daniel Green’s The Reading Experience
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daniel Davis Wood, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Gospel of Anarchy, Infinite Patience, Justin Taylor, The Reading Experience, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis on September 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The blog, The Reading Experience, is a wonderful place. Daniel Green’s articles are very informed, looking at literary works and literary questions from many perspectives. This is from the “about” page: I was an academic scholar and critic before I began writing for this blog. I still write the occasional “academic” essay, and my approach [...]
The Sot-Weed Factor: A Duet, Part III
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2011 | 7 Comments »
The third installment wherein our Hero & Heroine contemplate, to the Best of their Feeble Abilities, the NOVEL’S conclusion, its Far Reach, Revolutionary Folderol, & Altogether Righteous Fun. Or, a conversation between Amber Sparks & John Domini on One Kickass NOVEL. AMBER: Now that I’ve finished this terrific book, I’m finding it hard to stop [...]
A Sudden Huge Overpowering Nostalgia for Libraries
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2011 | 31 Comments »
The other day, Matt Bell posted a nice status update about a childhood library experience, and it quickly become clear from the comments that followed how much libraries shaped our literary childhoods–well, at least for those of us of a certain age. I remembered my elementary school librarian’s kindness, and that warm memory triggered the [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 27 / 41, Robert Lopez’s PART OF THE WORLD
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Click through to read the full review of Robert Lopez’s PART OF THE WORLD, the twenty-seventh in this full-press review of Calamari books.
Thoughtcast Features Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2011 | 5 Comments »
For those of you participating in (or following the discussion on) the Big Other book club, we’re going to be reading and discussing Helen Vendler’s Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries in November. So we thought you might be interested in a little sneak-peek, if you will: a really terrific podcast by Thoughtcast, featuring host Jenny [...]
Will Alexander’s Exobiology As Goddess: A Word-Hoard
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Exobiology As Goddess, John Madera, Solea of the Simooms, Will Alexander on September 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Will Alexander’s Exobiology As Goddess is a book-length paean to Solea of the Simooms, an invented divinity—is there any other kind?—who is a “blazing heresy within absence”; who is “void & negation as density / spiraling / through scorched titanium as emptiness”; who “roams in a zone without mass.” The book’s complex, polycrystalline textual surface [...]
Other Worlds
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alexandra Harris, Cecil Beaton, Evelyn Waugh, John Piper, Juliet Gardiner, Virginia Woolf on September 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
That we live in different worlds was brought starkly home to me earlier this summer when I read, in succession, two books about the 1930s. The first was The Thirties: An Intimate History by Juliet Gardiner, an exhaustive account of Britain in the decade that begins in the working class streets of Glasgow, and though [...]
Why Do So Many Writers Want to Teach Writing?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2011 | 45 Comments »
Disclaimer: this is not about MFA programs as a whole. I have never attended an MFA program, I cannot speak with any authority about MFA programs, and I have many, many friends who are fine writers and fine teachers who have attended MFA programs. Some of my friends are fabulous teachers, instructors, professors, the kind [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 26 / 41, 3RD BED [4]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Click through to read the full review of 3RD BED [4], the twenty-sixth in this full-press review of Calamari books.
POLESTAR POETRY, SUNDAY OCTOBER 2 2011, NYC
Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
POLESTAR POETRY SERIES SIAMESE DREAM poems inspired by the epic album
Indigene
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged England, Jeremy Paxman, Peter Ackroyd, postcolonial theory, Roger Maaka, Simon Jenkins on September 15, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I was born in Oldham and grew up in what was then Lancashire and is now Greater Manchester. My parents were both from Lancashire. Does that make me English?
The Kind of Machine That Tragedy Is
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aristotle, catharsis, clerks, Freud, Greeks, machines, Marx, mimesis, Plato, Rene Girard, reverse-engineering, scapegoat theory, the Poetics, therapy, tragedy, truth, universalization on September 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last time, I explored Plato’s theory of art; this time, I’d like to focus on Aristotle, particularly the Poetics, and see how Aristotle’s thought lines up with that of his former teacher Plato. Plato has a tendency towards universalization that comes up again in the likes of Kant and Hegel; Aristotle tends to approach things [...]
Soda Series: Recap of Mary Caponegro, Tim Horvath, and Gary Lutz and Preview of John Domini, Claire Donato, and Christine Schutt on September 25th
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christine Schutt, claire donato, Gary Lutz, Gary Lutz Interview, John Domini, Mary Caponegro, Soda Series, Tim Horvath interview on September 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Gabriel Blackwell on Stanley Elkin’s Boswell
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Boswell, Dalkey Archive Press, Gabriel Blackwell, Searches and Seizures: 3 Novellas, Stanely Elkin on September 12, 2011 | 4 Comments »
ABOUT BOSWELL I am, by way of introduction, perpetually adjunct; not quite ad hoc, still not joined. Inessential. A barnacle, an on-looker, a modifier. I worry. What encomiums for the adjunct? I am a “Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing.” This is already my second year of visiting, my reunion with familiarity, a second chance [...]
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