I read 203 books in 2011, or, on average, a little more than one book every two days. You would think I would be burnt out, and I am a little, but, as trials go, it was strictly Judge Wapner presiding. Small stuff. (I don’t want you to think I’ve got a big head or [...]
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A Year of Reading
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Lerner, Brian Oliu, Cormac McCarthy, Erik Anderson, Francis Levy, How to Write a Sentence, Judge Wapner, Leaving the Atocha Station, LeVar Burton, Logorrhea, Pro Wrestling, Reading Rainbow, Seven Days in Rio, So You Know It's Me, Stanley Elkin, Suttree, The Magic Kingdom, The Poetics of Trespass on December 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Book Hunting in San Francisco: Wallace, Wallace Stevens
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ardvark Books, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Christine Schutt, Community Thrift Store, Cormac McCarthy, David Foster Wallace, Frank Kermode, Henry James, Home Land, John Hawkes, Nightwork, Paul Valery, Sam Lipstye, San Francisco, The Collected Works of Paul Valery, The Crossing, The Quarterly, The Wings of the Dove, The World within the Word, Travesty, Wallace Stevens, William H. Gass on August 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I love San Francisco. Especially the book stores and thrift stores. The Community Thrift Store in the Mission has been a goldmine for me the last six years and each time I come here I check in and check out with jewels for about $1.50 each. I remember going there and finding the first six [...]
The Big Other Interview #253: Mark Brand
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anathem, apocalyptic fiction, Ben Tanzer, CCLaP Publishing, Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, china mieville, Code 46, Cormac McCarthy, Darren Aronofsky, Death Robot, Discover magazine, George Orwell, gina frangello, Human, I who Have Never Known Men, interview, Jack London, Jacqueline Harpman, Jason Fish, Jason Pettus, Kathleen Rooney, Kipling, Lawrence Santoro, Len Nicholas, Life After Sleep, Loosed Till Dawn Are W, Margaret Atwood, Mark R. Brand, Neal Stephenson, Night Song in the Jungle, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Oryx and Crake, paolo bacigalupi, Paul Hughes, Red Ivy Afternoon, Russell Lutz, Samantha Morton, sci-fi, science-fiction, Silverthought Publishing, Sleep, Star Wars, Thank You, The City & The City, The Fountain, The Handmaid, The Handmaid's Tale, The Iron Heel, The Return of the Jedi, The Road, The Star Rover, The Windup Girl, The Year of the Flood, Time Robbins on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Brand is a Chicagoland polymath: editor, writer, videopodcaster, former medical assistant. We met not long before I was a guest on the Breakfast with the Author podcast (ep. 3), with fellow Chicago writer Lawrence Santoro. Other guests: Ben Tanzer and Jason Fisk (ep. 1), Kathleen Rooney and Gina Frangello (ep. 2), and Russell Lutz, [...]
Guest Post: Paula Bomer: McCarthy’s Anton Chigurh and the Meaning of Violence
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men, Paula Bomer on February 9, 2011 | 30 Comments »
When I wake up and drink my tea, I lie in bed and stare out my window. There is a tree outside of my bedroom window that has branches that resemble, to me, a man running forward, with his arms outstretched. I project this onto the tree—this vision—and soon enough I also see other branches [...]
Start Suffering
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cormac McCarthy, dalkey archive, Flannery O'Connor, John Hawkes, Leslie Fletcher, Louise Gluck, Mock Orange, The Lime Twig on December 28, 2010 | 21 Comments »
“You suffer The Lime Twig like a dream. It seems to be something that is happening to you, that you want to escape from but can’t.” – Flannery O’Connor *** The stakes get raised again. After reading John Hawkes’s The Lime Twig I’m of a mind with Louise Glück lines from “Mock Orange”: How can [...]
Do you care if Cormac McCarthy wins the Nobel Prize?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cormac McCarthy on October 4, 2010 | 15 Comments »
He has some good odds, but what does it mean if he wins (apart from sales and more prestige), if anything?
Guest Post, by Mike Young: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cormac McCarthy, Mike Young, Suttree on May 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“Suttree could hear the wheels shucking along the rails and he could feel the ground shudder and he could hear the tone of the trucks shift at the crossing and the huffing breath of the boiler and the rattle and clank and wheelclick and couplingclacking and then the last long shunting on the downgrade drawing [...]
Guest Post, By Kyle Minor: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Child of God, Cormac McCarthy, Kyle Minor on May 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“They came like a caravan of carnival folk up through the swales of broomstraw and across the hill in the morning sun, the truck rocking and pitching in the ruts and the musicians on chairs in the truckbed teetering and turning their instruments, the fat man with guitar grinning and gesturing to others in a [...]
Interview with Ken Sparling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Artistically Declined Press, Baby Leg, Blood Meridian, Brian Evenson, Cormac McCarthy, Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, Derek McCormack, Gordon Lish, Hush up and listen stinky poo butt, Ken Sparling, Knopf, New York Tyrant, Pas de Chance, Pedlar Press, Philip Larkin, Sean Lovelace, The Border Trilogy, The Haunted Hillbilly, The Quarterly, The Road on January 4, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Sean Lovelace interviews Ken Sparling for Big Other
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Anis Shivani, Bookforum, Christopher Nolan, Cormac McCarthy, E.M. Cioran, Elizabeth Urello, Film Comment, Gabriel Blackwell, Goodreads, Hannah Simone, Helen DeWitt, Henry James, Joshua Cohen, Kent Jones, Lorrie Moore, Men's Health, Narrative Magazine, New Yorker, Preface to What Maisie Knew, R.P. Blackmur, Richard Ford, Richard Yates, Suzanne Dumesnil, Tao Lin, The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956, The Paris Review Blog, The Tree of Life, Uncle Tom, Viktor Shklovsky on May 24, 2012 | 8 Comments »
*** The premise of this essay is that criticism needs to play a central role in the revival of literature. -Anis Shivani, “What Should be the Function of Criticism Today? Subtropics *** Here are a few of the many facts strangers can learn from reading Lin’s blogs and comments on blogs: His penis measures five [...]
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