Euphorbia Rhizophora: A Harvested Ginger Rhizome I love reading lists, especially lists from smart people who are paying attention and have insightful things to say. Hence, these lists from Ravi Mangla, Lance Olsen, Dawn Raffel, Joseph Riippi, and Penina Roth. With all these choices of amazing things to check out and revisit, 2012 is looking very [...]
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Best of 2011, Part 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Dawn Raffel, John Madera, Joseph Riippi, Lance Olsen, Penina Roth, Ravi Mangla on December 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Toward a “Bibliography of Important Experimental Texts”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing, Big Other, John Madera, Lance Olsen on June 30, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Recently, on Facebook, Lance Olsen mentioned that he’s in the midst of “compiling a bibliography of 100 important experimental texts for [his] in-progress Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing, a book about how to imagine one’s own work as a space of opportunities.” He asks: “[W]hat are some of the texts across place & time [...]
New Issues of The Quarterly Conversation and Rain Taxi
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Foster Wallace, Evan La, Helen Vendler, John Ashbery, John Hawkes, Lance Olsen, Oblivion, Rain Taxi, The Passion Artist, The Quarterly Conversation on June 7, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Issue 24 of The Quarterly Conversation has a great David Foster Wallace symposium, with seven essays, including Lance Olsen on Oblivion. Also reviews of books by Rimbaud, Ovid, and Andrew Ervin, as well as an interview with Eliot Weinberger. My review of Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries by Helen Vendler is also in the issue. [...]
Best of 2010, Part 5
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best of 2010, Big Other, Bradley Sands, Chris Heavener, John Madera, Lance Olsen, William Walsh on January 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This post features lists by four excellent writers: Chris Heavener, Lance Olsen, Bradley Sands, and William Walsh. And when you get a chance, check out part one, part two, part three, and part 4. of “Best of 2010.”
This Wednesday: FC2 in NYC: Margo Berdeschevsky, Brian Conn, Lance Olsen, & Rob Stephenson
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Birkensnake, Brian Conn, Chiasmus, FC2, Lance Olsen, Margo Berdeschevsky, Queer Mojo, Rebel Satori Press, Red Hen Press, Rob Stephenson, Sheep Meadow Press, Unnameable Books, Western Humanities Review on October 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Just wanted to help spread the word for those not on Facebook: An Unnameable Reading: Fiction Collective Two in Brooklyn 7:30–9pm, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 Unnameable Books (600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY) (between Dean St. & St. Marks Ave.) Come hear four recently published FC2 authors read: Margo Berdeschevsky, Brian Conn, Lance Olsen, & Rob [...]
Guest Post, by Lance Olsen: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Marcus, Lance Olsen, The Age of Wire and String on May 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. –From Ben Marcus’s The Age of Wire and String.
On Lance Olsen–4 years later
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 10:01, FC2, girl imagined by chance, Head in Flames, hideous beauties, Lance Olsen, nietzche, nietzsche's kisses, stacey levine, Steve Tomasula, William S. Burroughs on April 18, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I’ve been thinking a lot about Lance Olsen lately—not only because he tied up and duct taped my mouth during the AWP 2010 session on copyright a few weeks ago, and not only because we’ve become friends over the years, but also because he is A) so damn prolific, and B) so damn insightful in [...]
On Lance Olsen’s latest, Head in Flames
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chiasmus Press, Head in Flames, Lance Olsen, Theo Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh on March 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Top Reasons to stop what you’re doing, and read Lance Olsen’s latest Head in Flames (Chiasmus Press, 2009). Because HIF is part of a (loose) trilogy of Olsen’s work, dealing in innovative ways with Modern figures: Nietzche’s Kisses (FC2, 2006), Anxious Pleasures (after Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” Shoemaker and Hoard, 2007), and now HIF. Because the [...]
Highlights from Artifice Magazine, Issue One
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Farkas, Artifice Magazine, Blake Butler, Carol Berg, Christopher Phelps, Cynthia Reeser, David Silverstein, Davis Schneiderman, Derek Phillips, Elisa Gabbert, Gregory Lawless, Jefferson Navicky, Jessica Bozek, Kathleen Rooney, Kelly Haramis, Kristine Snodgrass, Kyle Hemmings, Lance Olsen, Maureen Seaton, Neil de la Flor, Ori Fienberg, Roxane Gay, Susan Slaviero, Tim Jones-Yelvington, William Walsh on March 5, 2010 | 17 Comments »
It’s always nice to get a beautiful art object in the mail, and so I was happy to receive Artifice Magazine, Issue One with its classy satin cover and embossed title, and, more importantly (I soon learned), its content, content that mirrors the form in which it’s contained. Christopher Phelps’s “Word†” is a playful, reflexive piece, [...]
&Now Conference: A Conference of Innovate Writing & the Literary Arts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged &Now Conference 2009, A D Jameson, Bill Walsh, Blake Butler, Brian Evenson, Cara Benson, Christina Milletti, Dave Kress, Davis Schneiderman, Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Donald Breckenridge, Donald Breckinridge, J. A. Tyler, James Yeh, Joanna Howard, John Dermot Woods, Josh Maday, Kendra Grant Malone, Kim Chinquee, Lance Olsen, Lily Hoang, Mary Caponegro, Matt Bell, Matt Kirkpatrick, Pedro Ponce, Rikki Ducornet, Ryan Call, Shelly Jackson, Steve Katz, Steve Tomasula, Tina May Hall on October 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I went to the &Now Conference held in Buffalo, New York, October 14-17, and enjoyed it on a number of levels. First of all, it was great to cross that cold digital divide and finally meet so many people that I’ve been corresponding and/or working with, and/or reading their work for a while, people like [...]