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 [...]
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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 »
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 | 6 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 [...]
Water, Mater, and Other Matters: A Review of Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, James Joyce, John Madera, Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water, Ulysses on June 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A Review of Susan Daitch’s Storytown
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Dalkey Archive Press, John Madera, Storytown, Susan Daitch on June 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Storytown, Susan Daitch’s first collection, is a singular achievement, displaying a virtuosic command of technique in service to a kind of fractured narrativity, one privileging ellipsis, ambiguity, and odd displacement over the merely episodic, that is, the kind of predictable pit-pat pit-pat of the pitiful stuff that passes for fiction these days. These open-ended investigations [...]
A Review of Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne Buriall, or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, George Saintsbury, John Madera, New Directions, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne Burial, Urne Burial or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk, Urne Buriall or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk, Virginia Woolf on June 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Ostensibly a history of the ways humanity has, across history, housed the mortal remains of its dearly, or otherwise, departed, Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne Buriall is a lyrical, voluptuous, and evocative meditation on mortality, fate, and fleeting fame.
Guest Post: John Poch Reviews Michael Kimball’s Us
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, John Poch, Michael Kimball, Tyrant Books, Us on May 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A Guide to My Writing Here at Big Other
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Big Other, Jeremy M. Davies on May 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ve done a lot of posting since I started writing here (in December 2009). To make it all easier to navigate (both for myself and others), as well as to encourage folks to check out some of my older articles, I’ve gathered links to all of my posts and organized them by subject (below). I [...]
Reading Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures: “The Condominium”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "The Falling Girl", “The Condominium”, Big Other, Dino Buzzati, John Madera, Searches and Seizures, Stanley Elkin on April 18, 2011 | 19 Comments »
“The Condominium,” the third and final novella in Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures, features another rather garrulous “hero,” this time Marshall Preminger, a thirty-seven-year-old virgin, who describes himself as “ripe for conventional, even classical, introspection, a cliché of a man” (294), a man who, upon the unexpected death of his father, inherits a condominium, which [...]
Happy 168th, Henry James!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Henry James, Henry James's birthday, John Madera, The Bostonians, The Golden Bowl, The Princess Casamassima on April 15, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Ignorance Is a Kind of Sickness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, David Foster Wallace, Geoff Dyer, Ignorance, John Madera, My literary allergy, Stupidity on April 13, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Have you seen Geoff Dyer’s I’m-just-thinking-out-loud-here piece: “My literary allergy,” a pseudo-contrarian response to the work of David Foster Wallace, a piece that seemingly cuts through the hagiographic haze enhaloing Wallace?
Norman Lock’s Latest Book Has Been Released!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, John Madera, Norman Lock, Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions, Spuyten Duyvil on April 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Norman Lock‘s new book, Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions, has just been published by Spuyten Duyvil. I’ve been excited about this book ever since I was able to publish two of the “Pieces” in jmww.
Our New Contributor!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Taggart, Big Other on April 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Please join me in welcoming Andrew Taggart to Big Other. Andrew Taggart is a philosophical counselor living in Brooklyn. With his conversation partners and through his writing, he examines what is involved in leading a good and meaningful life.
Big Other presents: Attack of the J’s (Haskell, Iredell, Madera) Saturday in Brooklyn
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annie Levy, Big Other, jamie iredell, John Haskell, John Madera, Out of My Skin, Shelly Oria, Sweet! Actors Reading Writers, The Book of Freaks, Unnameable Books on April 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Saturday April 9th, 7pm, at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt, Brooklyn, NY Big Other presents: John Haskell, Jamie Iredell, and John Madera reading, with a Q/A to follow and wine to be served! We are celebrating these three wonderful writers and the release of Jamie’s new book (previewed here, by J.A. Tyler).
Reading Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures: On “The Bailbondsman”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "The Art of Fiction", “The Bailbondsman”, Big Other, Henry James, John Madera, Searches and Seizures, Stanley Elkin, William Gass on April 4, 2011 | 15 Comments »
If you’ve been following along with us here at Big Other, you know that in January we read and discussed Tom McCarthy’s C (more here and here), followed that up with Mary Caponegro’s The Complexities of Intimacy (more here, here, and here) and Manuel Puig’s Betrayed by Rita Hayworth (more here, here, here, and here), [...]
Our Newest Contributor!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Paula Bomer on April 1, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Please welcome Paula Bomer to Big Other. Paula Bomer is the author of Baby and Other Stories (Word Riot Press, 2010). Her fiction has appeared in dozens of journals and anthologies, including Open City, Fiction, The Mississippi Review, Nerve and elsewhere. She grew up in South Bend, Indiana and now lives in New York. Find [...]
So-Called Small Presses Dominate the N.B.C.C. Awards!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, John Madera, The National Book Critics Circle on March 17, 2011 | 6 Comments »
On Thursday, March 10, 2011, the National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its book awards for publishing year 2010. And it proved to be a banner year for small and independent presses. Four out of the six winning books were published by independent presses.
A New Contributor at Big Other
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Curtis White on March 16, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Please join me in welcoming Curtis White to Big Other. Curtis White is the critically acclaimed writer of numerous books of experimental fiction and social criticism. His books include: Heretical Songs (Fiction Collective, 1981); Metaphysics in the Midwest (Sun & Moon, 1989); The Idea of Home (Sun & Moon, 1993; reprinted by Dalkey Archive Press, [...]
Adoration of the Mage
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, John Madera, Klee Dead, Pricksongs and Descants, Rob Brezsny, Robert Coover, Seven Exemplary Fictions on March 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
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