Posts Tagged ‘John Madera’
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.
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?
Big Other Contributors’ News, #25
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amber Sparks, Elaine Castillo, Greg Gerke, J. A. Tyler, John Dermot Woods, John Madera, Michael Leong, Paul Kincaid, Ryan W. Bradley on April 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ryan W. Bradley‘s story, “The Pit Bull’s Tooth,” is up at Wigleaf, and his chapbook, MILE ZERO will be out in September from Maverick Duck Press. Elaine Castillo had poems published in Issue 12 of > kill author, and a piece forthcoming from Used Furniture Review, both from her poetry manuscript CANDIDA: A TRANSLATION. Several [...]
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.
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).
Stories “Finished” by Lily Hoang
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anne Austin Pearce, Beth Couture, Blake Butler, Brian Evenson, Carol Guess, Davis Schneiderman, Debra Di Blasi, Elizabeth Hildreth, J. A. Tyler, Jaded Ibis Press, John Madera, Justin Dobbs, Kate Bernheimer, Kathleen Rooney, Kelcey Parker, Lily Hoang, Michael Martone, Michael Stewart, Ryan Manning, Scott Garson, ted pelton, Trevor Dodge, Unfinished, Zach Dodson on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Unfinished is now available from Jaded Ibis Press. Lily Hoang–author of three novels, including the PEN award-winning Changing–invited her favorite writers to send her their scraps. She finished their unfinishables, even offering them to edit and revise what she produced. Some did, some didn’t. This collaborative enterprise is endlessly fascinating because one doesn’t know where [...]
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), [...]
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.
Big Other and Vol. 1 Brooklyn Present: Marcy Dermansky, Norman Lock, and Lincoln Michel
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jason Diamond, John Madera, Lincoln Michel, Marcy Dermansky, Norman Lock, Tobias Carroll, Vol.1 Brooklyn on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:00pm – 10:00pm Brooklyn Winery 213 N. 8th Street Brooklyn, NY RSVP here. Marcy Dermansky is the author of the novels Bad Marie and Twins. Marcy’s short fiction has been published widely in literal journals and anthologies, including McSweeney’s, Indiana Review, Mississippi Review and Fifty-Two Stories. A former MacDowell fellow, Marcy [...]
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 »
A Good Man Gives Me A Bad Man
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Bad Man, Big Other, David C. Dougherty, John Madera, Sam Lipsyte, Sam Lipsyte and David C. Dougherty on Stanley Elkin, Stanley Elkin on March 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Tonight, I went with Greg Gerke to an event honoring the ever-inimitable Stanley Elkin. After a short documentary of Elkin’s life (featuring soundbites from his wife, daughter, William Gass, and others), Sam Lipsyte and David C. Dougherty weighed in. Lipsyte discussed the might and mythos of Elkin, and remarked on the effect that Elkin’s prose [...]
Big Other Contributors’ News, #24
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Amber Sparks, Big Other Contributors’ News, Davis Schneiderman, Elaine Castillo, Greg Gerke, J. A. Tyler, John Madera, Michael Leong, Molly Gaudry, Paul Kincaid, Rachel Swirsky, Stacy Muszynski on February 22, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Radiohead just released a new album; and we’ve got some news to share, too. Thanks for reading!
On “Deal with the Devil,” a Review by William Logan
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Deal with the Devil, Elizabeth Bishop, John Madera, William Logan on February 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago I twice read aloud Elizabeth Bishop’s complete poems, reveling in their wit, their unusual imagery, their melancholic navigation between detachment and intimacy, their suspicion of a “priceless set of vocabularies.” And then there’s the delight in the noise of birds; take, for instance, the birds in her elegiac poem “North [...]
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