&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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&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 »
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. [...]
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. [...]