Lots of great things happened in 2011 for Gary Amdahl, Donald Breckenridge, Tobias Carroll, Aaron Gilbreath, Johannes Göransson, Dylan Hicks, Christopher Higgs, Tim Horvath, Jamie Iredell, and David Peak. Find Part One, here.
Archive for December, 2011
Best of 2011, Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aaron Gilbreath, Best of 2011, Big Other, Christopher Higgs, David Peak, Donald Breckenridge, Dylan Hicks, Gary Amdahl, jamie iredell, Johannes Göransson, John Madera, Tim Horvath, Tobias Carroll on December 16, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 34 / 41, James Wagner’s THE FALSE SUN RECORDINGS
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged auralgaph poems, Calamari Press, Derek White, homophonic translations, J. A. Tyler, James Wagner, Joyelle McSweeney, The Constant Critic, the false sun recordings on December 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Click through to read the full review of James Wagner’s THE FALSE SUN RECORDINGS, the thirty-fourth in this full-press review of Calamari books.
That Entrepreneurial Spirit
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Frank Zappa, Gordon Lish, J. Edward Reynolds, Mark Z. Danielewski, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Shane Jones on December 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
[Video shamelessly stolen from Shane Jones's Facebook feed] Of course sometimes the hippie with his feet up on the desk actually does have good taste — the example is too often used, but, well, Gordon Lish. (There must be others; good books do still get published.) Still, up until all that “Punker” and “tennis” business, [...]
Merry X-mas…. War is ON!!!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged atheist, carol, christmas, christmas carol, christmas music, christmas pop, christmas song, dance pop, music, pop, rick perry, Tea Party, war, war on christmas on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hello lovelies, I would like to share with you my latest XXXmas classic, a special gift for all my atheist nearest and dearest. This song addresses the question: Have the inclusive language-minded indeed, as Rick Perry and his ilk accuse, declared a war on Christmas? And answers YES! If a war is what they want, [...]
One of Those Rare Artists Who Speaks Well about Art, Including Their Own – Chorerographer Bill T. Jones
Posted in Uncategorized on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s beautiful and painful; which is what I want from art. . . . I’m not afraid of aging, but [I do consider] the idea of what is success in life, what is a life well spent. –Bill T. Jones NPR Music Interviews Winter Songs: Bill T. Jones Picks Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ December 13, 2011 As [...]
Russell Hoban
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Russell Hoban on December 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I wasn’t prepared for this. He was just a couple of months short of his 87th birthday, but still I wasn’t prepared. Russell Hoban has died.
We would gladly have repainted the trees and the sky
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged amputee, car crash, David Cronenbrg, direction, disability, dissociation, eye, flower, L'iceberg, love, narrative, Peter Greenaway, space, torpedo, Writing, Zombie on December 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Peter Greenway’s film A Zed & Two Noughts (A.K.A. Z00) [1985] begins with a swan crashing into a car, killing two people. The driver survives, but lives the remainder of the film as an amputee having lost her right leg. By film’s end, the amputee decides to remove her one remaining leg and falls in [...]
Viarum Hortus Bifucatarum
Posted in Uncategorized on December 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
. . . carnis cancrorum fluviatilium bifurcatarum in mense augusto ab aquis extractarum, sanguinis draconis . . . * * *
Big Other Wants You!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Big Other Wants You!, John Madera on December 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We’re looking for new contributors at Big Other, especially writers who write about things other than writers, writing, books, etc. Do you have compelling things to say about music, film, dance, painting, sculpture, installations, new media, technology, politics, education, sexuality, or whatever else? The posts can be as formal or as informal (within reason), and [...]
Best of 2011, Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Ervin, Big Other, Brad Listi, Curtis White, Eugene Lim, Gabriel Blackwell, Giancarlo DiTrapano, J. A. Tyler, John Madera, Kyle Minor, Samuel R. Delany on December 13, 2011 | 15 Comments »
A few days ago, I reached out to writers and other artists across the country to provide me with a list of some of their favorite books, music, films, events, moments, or whatever from 2011, which needn’t necessarily have happened or been made in 2011. So I’m happy to publish this first installment, featuring lists [...]
New Gary Lutz Interview!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Martin, Big Other, Gary Lutz, John Madera, The Paris Review on December 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Check out Andrew Martin’s excellent interview with Gary Lutz at The Paris Review Daily, their blog. Once again, Lutz shines as he self-deprecatingly answers questions, claiming to “suffer from E.D.—Experience Deficit”; implants the ordinal for zero; and offers glimpses into his perspicacious writing process:
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 33 / 41, SLEEPINGFISH ZZZ
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calamari Press, Derek White, Elizabeth Ellen, J. A. Tyler, Jac Jemc, Norman Lock, Sleepingfish on December 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Click through to read the full review of SLEEPINGFISH ZZZ, the thirty-third in this full-press review of Calamari books.
Requited Prerelease (this Wednesday, in Chicago)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ángel Faraldo, Daniel Godston, Edward Breitweiser, Enemy, Jennifer Karmin, Katrina Schaag, Peter J Woods, readings, Reed Esslinger, Requited Journal, Ryan T Dunn, sound art, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Wicker Park on December 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This Friday, 16 December, Requited will celebrate the upcoming release of its sixth issue at Enemy in Wicker Park. In addition to a few readings, Guest Editor Ryan T. Dunn will curate a series of multi-media / performative works focusing on language as sound. Friday, December 16th 8pm–11pm (please note that the live performances will begin [...]
Sequins is the Reason for the Season
Posted in Uncategorized on December 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
One of my favorite things about the holiday season is the glorious carols that remind us that now is the time to reflect upon the year that has passed, our joys and frustration, all the glorious potential that awaits us in the New Year and the wonderful gift that is our Lord and Savior’s birth, [...]
Disney’s Villain Glamour Icons
Posted in Uncategorized on December 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
THIS. It’s like I said.
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 43 / 41, Vincent Standley’s A MORTAL AFFECT
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calamari Press, Derek White, newpages, Vincent Standley on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Click here to read the full review of Vincent Standley’s A Mortal Affect, the forty-third in this full-press review of Calamari books, which appears at Newpages.com. Copies of A Mortal Affect can be consumed here. Next up: SLEEPINGFISH ZZZ Until then.
So Shiny and Bright: My Picks for the Best Books of 2011
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2011 | 27 Comments »
The last few years, I wrote and wrote. A lot. And read, too, but certainly not as much as I wanted to. This last year, though, was different. I was working on a novel, and I was also busier, more distracted in good and bad ways for all kinds of reasons. But maybe because I [...]
Victims
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers on December 6, 2011 | 5 Comments »
In 1926, Agatha Christie published a short story that introduced the character of Miss Marple, a spinster who solved crime by the ability to talk to anyone, by being the sort of person no-one pays attention to, by her insights into normal human behaviour. In 1927, Dorothy L. Sayers published the third of her Lord [...]
ELC/2 Launch: December 13th @ The Kitchen
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Dave Jhave Johnston, digital literature, Electronic Literature Organization, Illya Szilak, Oni Buchanan, Paul Ryan, Sandy Baldwin, Stephanie Strickland on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Next Tuesday, the Electronic Literature Organization will be launching the Electronic Literature Collection, volume 2 at The Kitchen. 512 West 19th Street /New York, NY 10011 / (212) 255-5793 ELC/2 includes 63 works in 6 languages from 16 countries. An astounding variety of forms and genres are included: text movies, interactive fiction, poem generators, codework, animations, Second Life [...]
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