CBC has a great new series that “looks into the symbiotic relationship between writers and their editors.” One of the first pairings is Ken Sparling and Jonathan Goldstein. Sparling edited Goldstein’s work and his take on the experience is here. Goldstein’s is here. Goldstein’s debut novel was Lenny Bruce is Dead. Sparling’s latest is Intention, [...]
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Ken Sparling and Jonathan Goldstein at CBC
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CBC, Intention Implication Wind, Jonathan Goldstein, Ken Sparling, Lenny Bruce is Dead on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sparling in May
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Intention Implication Wind, Ken Sparling, Pedlar Press on March 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Intention Implication Wind from Pedlar Press The back cover contains this quote from Sparling’s Big Other interview (the best author interview I’ve ever read, with incredible insights into Gordon Lish and Cormac McCarthy): No sentence can be subservient. You can’t afford to entertain a sentence that doesn’t have within it the strength of the entire [...]
Looking Back, Part 4: Books
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best of 2010, Brady Udall, Jeanann Verlee, Kat Dixon, Ken Sparling, Kevin Sampsell, Lindsay Hunter, Paula Bomer, Shya Scanlon, Vera Pavlova on January 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Best Novel: Honorable Mentions: Best Story Collection (Tie): Best Nonfiction: Best Poetry Collection (Tie): Best Chapbook: And that, folks, is my look back at 2010. I’m planning some fun stuff for 2011 and am looking forward to getting back into the swing of Big Other-ing.
Best of 2010, Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, jamie iredell, John Madera, Ken Sparling, Kevin Sampsell, Norman Lock, Scott Garson on December 22, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Though this season has seen me being pummeled by the various viruses and whatnot that are floating around—not to mention succumbing, for perhaps the first time in my life, to some form of seasonal affective mood disorder—the year, as a whole, has had some bright moments (as Rahsaan Roland Kirk would say). At some point, [...]
Ken Sparling on Wallace Stevens
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ken Sparling, Wallace Stevens on November 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
WHAT IT’S LIKE READING WALLACE STEVENS It’s like waking up early in the morning.
Summer? Reading
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bonnie Jo Campbell, Christian TeBordo, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Hesse, Ken Sparling, Naquib Mahfouz, Pete Fromm, Rachel Glaser, Sasha Fletcher, Summer Reading on June 9, 2010 | 38 Comments »
Sure, I understand summer is when kids and teachers have months-worth of vacation time. When people of means take trips to Hawaii or something. But for most of us, summer just means it’s better weather out while we’re inside working. So, by all means, make summer reading lists. But why not just make reading lists. [...]
Mud Luscious Press Is on the Move!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Borgstrom, Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, Grim Tales, Ken Sparling, Lamination Colony, Mud Luscious Press, Norman Lock, Pindeldyboz on June 1, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Good things are happening at Mud Luscious Press, the brainchild of Big Other’s J.A. Tyler:
For Those Whom God Has Blessed With Fingers: A Ken Sparling Novel
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, For Those Whom God Has Blessed With Fingers, Ken Sparling, Pedlar Press on March 2, 2010 | 6 Comments »
What is Ken Sparling up to? Why does the Toronto-based writer compose novels the way he does? His first, Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, had chapters and a story spiraling in many different directions, told by many different voices. For Those Whom God Has Blessed with Fingers from 2005 is one [...]
All hail the ILLiad (not to be confused with that other Iliad)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aimee Parkison, Antonio Negri, Bernadette Mayer, David Foster Wallace, Frank Stanford, Gary Young, Gordon Lish, Helene Cixous, ILLiad, Jacques Roubaud, Janet Mitchell, Ken Sparling, Marilyn Hacker, Mark Halliday, Michael Hardt, Nina Shope, Peter Handke, Sara Greenslit, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Zachary Mason on February 11, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Do you know of ILLiad? It’s an interlibrary loan system from which I’ve recently requested and received the following books (that my own university library does not have): Gordon Lish’s Mourner at the Door and My Romance and Krupp’s Lulu Helene Cixous’s Coming to Writing and Other Essays Ken Sparling’s Dad says he saw you at the [...]
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
Big Other Contributors’ News #8
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "We Are Mired In a Kind of Stalemate", "You've Probably Read This Before", Brooklyn Rail, Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, Dan Graham, Dear Everybody, Joanna Howard, Ken Sparling, Michael Kimball, On the Winding Stair, The Collagist, Word Riot on December 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Lily Hoang is a new contributor to Html Giant. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Shya Scanlon will be reading on Sunday, December 20, 2009 in Brooklyn at 440 Gallery, with two other writers Scott Geiger and Micaela Morrissette (a senior editor at Conjunctions). Here’s a link to the details. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… J.A. Tyler‘s fiction has appeared recently in these fine [...]
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