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art and self-restraint: the work of david shrigley

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, David Shrigley, drawing, Glasgow, Lily Hoang, Matthew Simmons, Minimalism, self-restraint on January 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »

I laughed a little when I found this drawing on the website for David Shrigley, a Glasgow-based artist. There’s not much to it, but for some reason it’s funny. Also a little unsettling. I realized I was laughing not so much because it’s comedic (though it might be) but because it’s absurd. There’s hardly anything [...]

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A Jello Horse and Your Rightful Home

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Jello Horse, Alyssa Knickerbocker, Matthew Simmons, YOUR RIGHTFUL HOME on July 5, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Yesterday I read Matthew Simmons’s A Jello Horse (Publishing Genius, 2009), immediately after finishing Alyssa Knickerbocker’s Your Rightful Home (Flatmancrooked, 2010). I remember when A Jello Horse was first published. There was something about a bunch of telephones. There was that cover, which is not my copy’s cover (mine is the one with the pink and the [...]

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The Varieties of Poetic Experience

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AD Jameson, Ariel Basom, BL Pawelek, Daniel Coughlin, Eric Leuschner, Greg Olear, In this alone impulse, James J. Williams III, Matthew Simmons, Maxfield Chandler, Mel Bosworth, Paula Bomer, poetry, Shya Scanlon, Stephen Johnson, Tan-ya Gerrodette, Todd Zuniga, videos, Zac Whittenburg on May 9, 2010 | 12 Comments »

A while ago I began to solicit videos of friends and associates reading/performing/interpreting poems from my collection, In This Alone Impulse, in exchange for a copy of said collection. A dozen or so videos into this project, I’m amazed and impressed by the range of attitude, voice and dimension the videos have exhibited. Each of [...]

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My Favorite Books from 2009 (in alphabetical order):

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Nick Antosca, Midnight Picnic, Shane Jones, Matt Bell, Mary Caponegro, Tina May Hall, Lily Hoang, Joanna Howard, John Dermot Woods, Brian Evenson, Light Boxes, places & things, jamie iredell, Joanna Ruocco, Sean Lovelace, Dear Everybody, MLKNG SCKLS, Justin Sirois, Joseph Young, Easter Rabbit, Michael Kimball, Gert Jonke, Jackie Corley, The Suburban Swindle, The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright, Matthew Simmons, Greg Gerke, The System of Vienna, Baby Leg, The Failure Six, David Shields, Fugue State, Eugene Lim, On the Winding Stair, Rose Alley, A Jello Horse, Ander Monson, Vanishing Point, All Fall Down, Fog & Car, Eugene Marten, Waste, The Way the Family Got Away, Reality Hunger, John Haskell, Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault, The Complete Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino, All the Day’s Sad Stories, AM/PM, Amelia Gray, The Bridge of the Golden Horn, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Changing, The Collectors, The Complete Collection of People, Everything Was Fine Until Whatever, Chelsea Martin, e.s.p., Michael Leong, Five Spice Street, Can Xue, How Some People Like Their Eggs, Kamby Bolongo Mean River, Robert Lopez, Life Goes to the Movies, Peter Selgin, The Looking House, Fred Marchant, The Mothering Coven, The Other City, Michal Ajvaz, One of These Things Is Not Like the Others, Stephanie Johnson, Prose. Poem. A Novel., Jeremy Davies, Shadowplay, Norman Lock, There’s Something Wrong with Sven, Where I Stay, Andrew Zornoza on December 31, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I’ve read over 120 books in 2009, and by the time the year is up I’ll have reviewed over fifty. At the risk of being redundant, I’ve put together a list of the books I thought were this year’s best. I’ve also included links to the ones I reviewed. But before that, I should mention [...]

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Powers of Attraction

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Jello Horse, Ander Monson, Matthew Simmons, Michael Carmichael, Roadside Attractions, Vanishing Point on December 23, 2009 | 15 Comments »

The narrator of Matthew Simmons’s A Jello Horse takes detours to odd roadside attractions. This aspect of the book reminded me of Tom Robbins’s Another Roadside Attraction. I’m in the middle of reading Ander Monson’s Vanishing Point and he, at one point, writes about roadside attractions:

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Bradley Sands’s Best of 2009

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible, Brian Evenson, Christopher Monks, David Plotz, Disturbing, Fugue State, Good Book LP: The Bizarre, Hilarious, I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It, Last Days, Light Boxes, Marvelous, Matthew Simmons, Publishing Genius, Sam Pink, Shane Jones, The Ultimate Game Guide To Your Life: Or, The Video Game As Existential Metaphor on December 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Here’s a quick run-through of the books that I read this year and came out this year. Pretty much the books that I gave four stars to on goodreads because my memory sucks. I would mention movies, but I don’t have a goodreads like thing for movies. Light Boxes, by Shane Jones: Made me want [...]

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Big Other Contributors’ News #6

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Parents Being We Are Wrongly", "Truth Be Told", American Salvage, American Short Fiction blog, B.J. Hollars, Ben Greenman, Blake Butler, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Brian Evenson, Christopher Higgs, Dark Sky, E. Loic Leuschner, Fan Fiction, Front Porch, Html Giant, Jac Jemc, Josh Weil, Kim Chinquee, Look No Further, Matt Briggs, Matthew Simmons, Molly Gaudry, Monkeybicycle 7, National Book Award-finalist, Nick Bredie, Opium 9, Ryan Boudinot, Sam Pink, Sean Carman, Shya Scanlon, Skip Horack, Stacy Muszynski, The Collagist, The New Valley, The Rumpus, The Southern Cross, We Are Champion, We Take Me Apart, You Must Be This Tall to Ride on December 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Molly Gaudry and Kim Chinquee have been translated into Polish, alongside Matt Bell, Jamie Iredell, Claudia Smith, and a number of others. A review of Molly Gaudry’s We Take Me Apart appears HERE. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Shya Scanlon curated a Fan Fiction section for Opium 9, which includes work by Brian Evenson, Matthew Simmons, Matt Briggs, Blake [...]

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Big Other Contributors’ News #4

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Shattered Wig Night, Aaron Garretson, Aimee Mepham, Anne Ray, Apostrophe Cast, B.K. Evenson, B.R. Smith, Ben Greenman, Ben Towle, Blake Butler, Blaster Al Ackerman, Brett Rosenblatt, Catherine Sharpe, Clark Hays, CM Evans, Davin Malasarn, Dawn Raffel, Dean Young, E. Loic Leuschner, elimae, Elisa Gabbert, Erin Berkowitz, Everyday Genius, F.J. Bergmann, Gert Jonke, Graham Roumieu, Greg Gerke, Guy Ben Brookshire, I Will Smash You, Ingrid Burrington, J. A. Tyler, Jackie Corley, jamie iredell, Je Banach, Jessy Randall, John Dermot Woods, John Madera, Jonathan Baumbach, Jonathon Keats, Kathleen Rooney, Kevin Leahy, Kim Chinquee, Kyle Davis, Lindsay Mound, Lisa A. Levy, Little Burn Films, Luca Dipierro, Lydia Fitzpatrick, Matt Briggs, Matthew Simmons, Melinda Hill, Michael Kimball, Mississippi Review, Nick Bredie, Opium Magazine: The Mania Issue, Ryan Boudinot, Sean Carman, Sean Landers, Sean Murphy, The Collagist, The Delicacy and Strength of Lace, The Millions, The Suburban Swindle, The System of Vienna, Wendy Duren, Word Riot, Writers’ Bloc on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Lily Hoang is now an editor at Tarpaulin Sky. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… I WILL SMASH YOU, the documentary film by Luca Dipierro and Michael Kimball, will be screened in Baltimore on Friday, November 20. The screening is part of A Shattered Wig Night. There will be great readings by Blaster Al Ackerman and Ingrid Burrington, and loud [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘Matthew Simmons’

art and self-restraint: the work of david shrigley

A Jello Horse and Your Rightful Home

The Varieties of Poetic Experience

My Favorite Books from 2009 (in alphabetical order):

Powers of Attraction

Bradley Sands’s Best of 2009

Big Other Contributors’ News #6

Big Other Contributors’ News #4

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