Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, in a run which lasted from December 8th through 10th, presented Prism, a showcase of the choreography of Charlotte Boye-Christensen. Since 2002, Boye-Christensen has brought state-of-the-art dance to Salt Lake City, and Prism continued to do nothing less. True, the first two pieces of the evening had been performed previously by the [...]
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Best of 2011, Part 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Dawn Raffel, John Madera, Joseph Riippi, Lance Olsen, Penina Roth, Ravi Mangla on December 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Euphorbia Rhizophora: A Harvested Ginger Rhizome I love reading lists, especially lists from smart people who are paying attention and have insightful things to say. Hence, these lists from Ravi Mangla, Lance Olsen, Dawn Raffel, Joseph Riippi, and Penina Roth. With all these choices of amazing things to check out and revisit, 2012 is looking very [...]
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 »
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.
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:
Big Other’s new image
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other on November 15, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I just want to state for the record that I had that pretty banner image up at my personal blog before John put it up at the top of the page here, and so my comment at said blog, that “This is a dead zon(e),” should not be read as any kind of comment about [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 42 / 41, Gary Lutz’s DIVORCER
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Divorcer, Gary Lutz, J. A. Tyler on November 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Click here to read the full review of Gary Lutz’s divorcer, then (leap ahead) forty-second in this full-press review of Calamari Press, which appears at The Rumpus (but with full love reflected back to Big Other). & copies of divorcer (a truly phenomenal book) can be had here. Pending: VAAST BIN & 3RD BED [6] [...]
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 [...]
Introduction/Aesthetics
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aesthetics, Aristotle, Big Other, British Empiricists, Edmund Burke, German Idealists, Gottlieb Baumgarten, Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, james tadd adcox, John Madera, Longinus, Martin Buber, Nicholas Brown, Plato, purposiveness, The Critique of Judgment, Walter Ben Michaels, Walter Benjamin on September 6, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Hi, Big Other. I’m new here, at least as a contributor. My name is James Tadd Adcox. I’m kind of an aesthetics geek. I’m planning, over the next several weeks, to present a series of posts on aesthetic theory, tracing a certain line of aesthetic thought from classical philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Longinus) through the British [...]
Michael Kimball’s Upcoming Reading in Brooklyn
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Franklin Park Reading Series, John Madera, Michael Kimball, Penina Roth on August 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Kimball is one of my favorite writers. He’s also one of my favorite readers. If you’re in New York City next week, be sure to check him out at the fabulous Franklin Park Reading Series, hosted by the fabulous and indefatigable Penina Roth. More details HERE.
Mini-Review of Paolo Portoghesi’s Nature and Architecture
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged John Madera, Big Other, Wallace Stevens, Nature and Architecture, Paolo Portoghesi on August 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Take shelter from the rain under a leaf. Look toward the light pouring from a dome’s oculus. Here ears become tunnels, eyes portals, and mouths doors. Huts echo bower birds’ nests. Phallic spires court vaginal apertures. Towers mirror the mullein’s vertical inflorescence. In his 528-page tome, Nature and Architecture, famed architect and theorist Paolo Portoghesi, [...]
Gary Lutz’s Divorcer: A Word-Hoard
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Word-Hoard, Big Other, Divorcer, Gary Lutz, John Madera, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on August 9, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Gary Lutz is easily one of my favorite writers. I’ve read each of his collections at least twice, and I find myself revisiting stories from them from time to time; and I’ve sought out and found much, I think, of what has yet to be collected, like small pieces in various issues of The Quarterly, [...]
John Berryman: Poems Selected by Michael Hofmann: A Word-Hoard
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Word-Hoard, Big Other, John Berryman: Poems Selected by Michael Hofmann, John Madera on August 1, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I tend to be skeptical whenever somebody recommends a writer to me, especially, for some reason, when it’s a poet being recommended; and it’s usually a contemporary, or near-one, that I am usually having foisted upon me—my perception of the dynamic here duly noted—so when a friend, who hardly reads much literature of any kind [...]
Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William Gass
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Birthday tribute, Daniel Green, John Madera, Luca Dipierro, Malcolm Sutton, Michael Leong, William Gass on July 30, 2011 | 23 Comments »
I would imagine that a certain amount of anxiety accompanies any attempt to write about William Gass and his work, a lifework where every sentence has been carefully tooled, poetically, no, lovingly rendered; where a distinct refusal to settle for a messy glibness, to trot around ideas like some propped up and thoroughly beaten and [...]
Travels with My Aunt: A Look at Satire and Outsiderness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Graham Greene, Paula Bomer, Philip Roth, Satire, Travels with My Aunt on July 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’m in the Dominican Republic, sitting on the porch of the cabin we’ve owned for six years now. We dream of the expatriate life, but there literally is no high school here and I have two teenage sons. I have no doubt that the next few years I have with them will pass quickly and [...]
Wallace Stevens: Poems Selected by John Burnside: A Word-Hoard
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Word-Hoard, Big Other, John Madera, Wallace Stevens: Poems Selected by John Burnside on July 25, 2011 | 9 Comments »
I’m in the middle of meandering, moving from place to place, preparing to move to Providence, so it’s fitting that my reading would reflect this kind of movement: my reading has been full of interruptions and digressions, even more than usual. My browsing of great libraries, like the one belonging to my friends in Far [...]
E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News: A Word-Hoard
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Word-Hoard, Big Other, E. Annie Proulx, Hart Crane, John Madera, The Shipping News on July 23, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Once I’d encountered the word “hive-spangled” (a hyphenated compound that I’d imagine Hart Crane would have enjoyed using if not inventing outright—later I would come to find other gems like “blind-wrapped” and “ice-scabbed”) in E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News I knew I’d enjoy reading it. In fact, the book’s weaving of muscular bluntness with [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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