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&NOW announcements

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged &NOW 5, &NOW BOOKS, &NOW Paris, &NOW UC San Diego, Amazon, Davis Schneiderman, Galerie de Difformite, Glen Rowan House, Gretchen E. Henderson, Josh Corey, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest Literary Festival, Madeleine P. Plonsker Writer’s Residency Prize, Northwestern, residency, Robert Archambeau, The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

&NOW 5 at UCSD as a wild, raucous ride, courtesy of our many participants and the world’s best organizers: Amina Cain and Anna Joy Springer. HERE are some responses. Now, more news: 1) &NOW 6: Paris, June 7-10, 2012: 2) &NOW releases the second Plonsker Prize book, from our 2010 winner: 3) Madeleine P. Plonsker Writer’s [...]

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#AuthorFail 11: Roxane Gay

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged #AuthorFail, (E)Motion, And Then We Came to the End, AYITI, collection, displacement, Fail, flight attendants, Joshua Ferris, Lake Forest College, migrant workers, missionaries, Mormon, movement, PANK, POV, Roxane Gay, short stories, thesis, traveling strippers, truck drivers, What We Do When We Are Together, William Gillespie on August 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Welcome, fellow duds, also-rans, has-beens, and cast-offs. I had followed Roxane Gay’s intriguing online posts over the recent years, and somehow stumbled upon the fact that she teaches at Eastern Illinois University. Delighted by this relative proximity to my Chicago-area enclave of Lake Forest College, I invited her to join a panel on publishing (given [...]

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#AuthorFail 5: A D Jameson

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged #AuthorFail, A D Jameson, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Chinese, Chronicles of Narnia, Curtis White, DePaul University, dragons, Epic of Gilgamesh, Facets Multimedia, Fiction International, Giant Slugs, Kurt Cobain, Lake Forest College, Lawrence and Gibson, Lemuria, Mutable Sound, Requited, SAIC, Seattle, Siam Square, StoryStudio Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, WTO on July 4, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Is Big Other a failure? Of course, in every way. See the proof below from our own AD Jameson, who ever-so-mildly breaks the rules of this column (submit!: see this), by stating that he might return to his long-suffering project, detailed below. Even so, we may root for his continued and everlasting failure on this [...]

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The Big Other (Skype) Interview #71: Dave Kress

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Counting Zero, Dave Kress, Hush, Lake Forest College, Mammoth Books, The Pixies on December 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Way back on October 6, I tried a bold experiment for Lake Forest College: a Skype reading/discussion with former chemist/adhesive inventor and person extraordinaire Dave Kress, author of the challenging and wonderful novel Hush (Mammoth Books, 2010). Kress beamed in to converse with my fiction-writing workshop, and I present the results below in five installments. [...]

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Bob Brown and the Readies/Bibliomania for the masses

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged André Breton, Bob Brown, Craig Saper, Gertrude Stein, Gutenberg, Lake Forest College, Rice University Press, Studs Lonigan, The Readies on February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »

My humble bigother debut… Tomorrow, University of Central Florida Text/s and Technology Prof Craig Saper visits Lake Forest College. I’m psyched. His topic is Bob Brown, the largely unknown super-modernist-friend-of-GertrudeStein/pulp magnate/inventor of a future-feeling reading machine that startlingly predates/predicts the new media technologies that are unsettling the act of reading from its pre-Gutenberg roots. [...]

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&NOW announcements

#AuthorFail 11: Roxane Gay

#AuthorFail 5: A D Jameson

The Big Other (Skype) Interview #71: Dave Kress

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