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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Curtis White’
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 »
Marilyn Monroe Comes to Chicago, 23 Skidoo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American Gothic, Billy Wilder, Chicago, Cows on Parade, Curtis White, Daniel Burnham, Daniel Edwards, David Lynch, Diego Rivera, Edwin S. Porter, Flatiron Building, Forever Marilyn, Grant Wood, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, Jeff Koons, kitsch, Lee Lawrie, Man at the Crossroads, Marilyn Monroe, Pioneer Court, Rockefeller Center, Seward Johnson, The Seven Year Itch, Twenty-three Skidoo, What Happened on 23rd Street New York City on July 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »
So now there’s a giant statue of Marilyn Monroe standing by Tribune Tower, on Michigan Ave: Describing it, the Chicago Tribune writes: Marilyn Monroe, as a 26-foot-tall statue in her famous subway-grate stance from “The Seven Year Itch” pose [sic]. Dubbed Forever Marilyn, the sculpture by New Jersey-based artist Seward Johnson will live in Pioneer [...]
A Death Star for Curtis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AT&T, Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County, Curtis White, Death Star on June 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I can’t find the full strip online, alas.
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, [...]
An Interview with Yuriy Tarnawsky, Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alexander Dovzhenko, Bleecker Street Cinema, Claude Simon, Cubism, Curtis White, Danylo Demutsky, Dostoyevsky, E. Power Biggs, existentialism, FC2, Fiction Collective, Glenn Gould, György Ligeti, Heinrich von Kleist, Hwbrgdtse, Iannis Xenakis, IBM, Ingmar Bergmann, Jean-Paul Sartre, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Cage, Like Blood in Water, linguistics, Luciano Berio, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marguerite Duras, Meningitis, Michael Kohlhaas, Michel Butor, Milton Babbitt, mininovel, MoMA, Natalie Sarraute, New York University, Nikolai Gogol, nouveau roman, Roads, Roads to Freedom, Robert Bresson, Ron Sukenick, Satyajit Ray, St. Thomas Church, Symphony Space, Thalia Theater, The Hypocrite, the Met, The Possessed, Three Blondes and Death, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Yuriy Tarnawsky on February 24, 2011 | 16 Comments »
I first encountered Yuriy Tarnawsky‘s writing in 1998, when I stumbled across a copy of Three Blondes and Death (FC2, 1993) in a Philadelphia bookstore. (A college professor, having noticed my interest in less-than-realist fiction, encouraged me to be on the lookout for any books published by FC2 or Dalkey Archive Press.) Three Blondes was [...]
My First Book, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Is Now Available
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, alice blue review, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Curtis White, Edgar Degas, elimae, Harp & Altar, Like Blood in Water, Malcolm Felder, Memories of My Father Watching TV, Mutable Sound, NOÖ Journal, The Middle Mind, Three Blondes and Death, Yuriy Tarnawsky on February 15, 2011 | 13 Comments »
My first book, the prose collection, Amazing Adult Fantasy, is now available. Interested parties can order it here. Of it, others have said: “Adam Jameson’s amazing adult fiction is alive with the life of language. Like Céline or Gertrude Stein, Jameson’s fiction works if the language works and the language works so the work works. [...]
Curtis White on Wallace Stevens
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Curtis White, The Middle Mind, The Necessary Angel, Wallace Stevens on November 19, 2010 | 15 Comments »
The following is taken from White’s excellent book The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves (2003 HarperCollins) (reprinted with permission): “Wallace Stevens’s little book of essays, The Necessary Angel (1942), deserves far more relevance than it seems to have in the present. Stevens’s book is intelligent, humane, and inventive in a way that [...]
Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ann Quin, B.S. Johnson, Breathless (1960), Breathless (1983), Chekhov, Cthulhu, Curtis White, Flaubert, G.I. Joe, Hamlet, Henry James, How Fiction Works, James Wood, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-François Lyotard, John Gardner, John Ruskin, Last Tango in Paris, Les Carabiniers, Madame Bovary, Nabokov, ostranenie (enstrangement), Saul Bellow, The 400 Blows, The Concept of Character in Fiction, The Middle Mind, Theodore Adorno, Theory of Prose, Three Blondes and Death, Tripticks, Viktor Shklovsky, Watchmen, William H. Gass, Yuriy Tarnawsky on January 31, 2010 | 40 Comments »
On January 22, I read Shya Scanlon’s post “The Dull King”; on January 25 I read his second post “Cover Your Tracks.” Both were about reading James Wood’s How Fiction Works. Before that I’d heard of James Wood but hadn’t read anything by him; I knew some people liked him and some didn’t like him. [...]
I like Chuck Klosterman. Yup. I said it.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chuck Klosterman, Curtis White, Damien Hirst, David Koresh, guilty pleasures, He's Just Not That Into You, Indie Culture, Kurt Cobain, Lady Gaga, Radiohead, Rock of Love, Tetris on December 24, 2009 | 40 Comments »
I like him and I’m gonna tell you why using some concepts spelled out in his new book Eating the Dinosaur. I thought about titling this post, “I Like Chuck Klosterman and I Don’t Feel Bad About It,” and then I read Chuck Klosterman’s essay comparing In Utero-era Kurt Cobain to David Koresh, and Klosterman [...]
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