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Posts Tagged ‘Daniel Green’

The Best Review of Gary Lutz I’ve Ever Read

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on January 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Daniel Green’s review of Divorcer is wonderful. A taste: The formal patterns that emerge are both a result of and a natural aesthetic complement to the singular sentences that constitute his work. If individual sentences in a sense leave us suspended in their word twists and serpentine syntax, the stories in which they appear do [...]

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The Book Club Reads John Hawkes’s Travesty

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on October 4, 2011 | 10 Comments »

This month the Big Other Book Club is reading Travesty by John Hawkes. Everyone is welcome to write a post about Travesty or Hawkes. It is 132 pages and out of the handful of books of his I’ve read, the most accessible. John Hawkes’ short novel Travesty presents a monologue of a person driving an automobile who [...]

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Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William Gass

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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