&NOW 5 at UCSD as a wild, raucous ride, courtesy of our many participants and the world’s best organizers: Amina Cain and Anna Joy Springer. HERE are some responses. Now, more news: 1) &NOW 6: Paris, June 7-10, 2012: 2) &NOW releases the second Plonsker Prize book, from our 2010 winner: 3) Madeleine P. Plonsker Writer’s [...]
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&NOW announcements
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged &NOW 5, &NOW BOOKS, &NOW Paris, &NOW UC San Diego, Amazon, Davis Schneiderman, Galerie de Difformite, Glen Rowan House, Gretchen E. Henderson, Josh Corey, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest Literary Festival, Madeleine P. Plonsker Writer’s Residency Prize, Northwestern, residency, Robert Archambeau, The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
#AuthorFail: Index
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Ah, #AuthorFail, how we miss you. And how. And how we now present, in your memory, the index of your shame. ** #AuthorFail 1: Mark Spitzer / June 6, 2011 #AuthorFail 2: Sean Beaudoin / June 13, 2011 #AuthorFail 3: Gretchen E. Henderson / June 20, 2011 #AuthorFail 4: Jeffrey DeShell / June 27, 2011 #AuthorFail 5: A [...]
Edward Mullany’s If I Falter at the Gallows
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American Gothic, Edward Mullany, If I Falter at the Gallows, Publishing Genius on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Edward’s book is now available. It’s stark, it’s funny, it’s sad–verse reflected by the book’s cover (also by Edward): American Gothic A woman with a gun, and a man with a gun, and a child with a gun, and a dog with a gun held between its two paws face the camera. One year [...]
the world re-imagined, or a book cover as art, or what snoop dogg taught me about mark leidner
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged factory hollow press, Mark Leidner, snoop dogg, twin towers on October 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I was on the Internet when I first saw the cover of Mark Leidner’s new book, “Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me”. I can’t remember what site I was looking at when I saw it, but I stopped for a minute, my hand on the mouse, which in turn was on the mousepad, [...]
Bram Stoker’s private notebook discovered.
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
read about it here.
The Joy and Hate of and in Baseball
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1981 L.A. Dodgers, 1992 Toronto Blue Jays, 1997 Cleveland Indians, 2003 Florida Marlins, Earl Weaver, Earl Weaver tirade, Game 6, Paul Molitor, Robin Yount, Wade Boggs, World Series on October 28, 2011 | 23 Comments »
I still have mixed feelings about baseball. The 1994 strike turned me off for years until 2004 and the Red Sox. The steroid scandals were and are an embarrassment. The prima donna aspect of many of the players is nettling (did Robin Yount or Paul Molitor [can you tell where I'm from?] ever point to heaven or [...]
General Strike in Oakland on Wednesday, November 2nd
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fox News, November 2nd General Strike, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street on October 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, Part 3: “Strangeways, Here We Come”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Derek Jarman, Johnny Marr, Morrissey, Strangeways Here We Come, The Smiths, Tilda Swinton on October 27, 2011 | 8 Comments »
We continue listening through the somewhat-less-famous Smiths albums, gleaning their better tracks for our ultimate deep cuts playlist. (Already covered: “The Smiths” & “Meat Is Murder.”) Today let’s look at: STRANGEWAYS, HERE WE COME (1987) Now, I won’t go as far as to agree with Morrissey and Marr—what do they know?—that this is “the best [...]
Occupy Oakland Under Attack
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Goodman, Charlie Rose, Chris Hedges, Democracy Now!, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street on October 26, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Here is Occupy Oakland’s website. This morning’s Democracy Now show has great coverage. 13:00-30:00 This is also a very important video. Amy Goodman and Chris Hedges talk to Charlie Rose about the Occupy Movement.
The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, Part 2: “Meat Is Murder”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Johnny Marr, Meat Is Murder, Morrissey, Radiohead, Smiths Night, The Smiths on October 25, 2011 | 6 Comments »
So we’re listening through the Smiths albums that aren’t the three essential ones—The Queen Is Dead, Singles, Louder Than Bombs—looking for standout tracks. Yesterday we combed through The Smiths, and today beings us to: MEAT IS MURDER (1985) Whatever your dietary politics are, we might agree that this one is, alas, the Smiths’ weakest—just like [...]
A Book With a Broken Heart: On Robert Kloss’s How the Days of Love and Diptheria
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Let’s just get this out there: I think Robert Kloss is one of the most exciting writers to emerge from the indie world in the last few years, period. His language-heavy, seemingly-contradictory-but-it-works-perfectly-somehow-post-apocalyptic histories read like a tinted silent film: black and white with the faintest blush of something warmer, stranger. Read Kloss once and you’ll [...]
The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, part 1: “The Smiths”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andy Warhol, Flesh, Jack Kerouac, Joe Dallesandro, Johnny Marr, Morrissey, Paul Morrissey, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Dharma Bums, The Smiths on October 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It’s true what folks say: if you own The Queen Is Dead, Singles, and Louder Than Bombs, then you own most of “the best songs” by The Smiths (the greatest band of all time). But there are still reasons to hunt down copies of their other records—the studio albums The Smiths, Meat Is Murder, and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2011 | 6 Comments »
“i think marie howe just said that all poetry has silence at the center of it. i think i want a breakdancing lemur at the center of my poetry.” — Poet Robb Q Telfer, on Facebook
On Evil Uncles and Power Pumps: Riffing on Johannes Goransson and Joyelle McSweeney’s Presentations at &Now
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
One of the highlights of this past weekend’s &Now Conference was, for me, the “What’s that Mess? It’s Excess!” panel, where Johannes Goransson spoke about watching Disney’s The Lion King with his children (child? …I forget how many), and made a case for the film’s villain, the effete, swishy, nonsensically-accented “creepy uncle” Scar, as supplying [...]
Select Quotes from the William Gibson Talk at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baudelaire, Burning Chrome, Chicago Humanities Festival, cyberspace, invisibility, Neuromancer, quotes on writing, the future, William Gibson on October 17, 2011 | 9 Comments »
“The internet is turning itself inside out.”
Bank Transfer Day and Videos of People Being Arrested for Closing Their Accounts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bank of America, Bank Transfer Day, Citibank arrests, Durbin Amendment, Kristen Christian, Occupy Wall Street on October 17, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Kristen Christian’s Bank Transfer Day has grown. It is not an Occupy Wall Street event, Kristen has done this independently. Just in the last 16 hours or so, over 3,000 people have RSVP’d on Facebook as the total will very soon top 50,000. RSVP An interview with her. Of course, you don’t need to RSVP [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 29 / 41, 3RD BED [5]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 3rd Bed, Calamari Books, Chad McCail, Christopher Kennedy, Derek White, J. A. Tyler, Kathryn Rantala, Kim Parko, Norman Lock, Peter Markus, Robert Coover, Vincent Standley on October 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Click through to read the full review of 3RD BED [5], the twenty-ninth in this full-press review of Calamari books.
NYC Readings this Occupation Weekend
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Golaski, Ethel Rohan, Greg Gerke, Hard to Say, Heather Fowler, Helen Phillips, Jen Michalski, Kathy Fish, Kim Chinquee, Krystal Languell, Le Possion Rouge, Matter Press, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street Library, October 15th Global Day of Protest, PANK, Unnameable Books, Wild Life on October 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On Saturday at 5pm, just at tail-end of the October 15th Global Day of Protest, I will be hosting a reading with Ethel Rohan and Kathy Fish at Unnameable Books – 600 Vanderbilt Ave (between Dean St & St Marks Ave) in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Please come down to here these fine writers. RSVP Kathy [...]
New Gass at Harper’s
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Elizabeth Bishop, Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's, Harper's Magazine, José García Villa, William Gass on October 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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