Mel Bosworth is one of the tireless soldiers of indie lit. He seems to live and breath support for writers and small presses. He writes with romantic abandon. And his novella, Grease Stains, Kismet, and Maternal Wisdom is not only a testament to his skill as a writer, but his love for writing. The Boz [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mel Bosworth’
Down with Mel Bosworth
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brown Paper Publishing, Grease Stains Kismet and Maternal Wisdom, Mel Bosworth on November 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Happy Birthday, Big Other!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Aya Karpińska, Christopher Higgs, Danielle Adair, Davis Schneiderman, Edward Mullany, Greg Gerke, J. A. Tyler, Jac Jemc, John Dermot Woods, Kim Chinquee, Kristen Iskandrian, Leni Zumas, Lily Hoang, Luca Dipierro, Mel Bosworth, Michael Leong, Molly Gaudry, Paul Kincaid, Rachel Swirsky, Roxane Gay, Ryan W. Bradley, Sean Lovelace, Shya Scanlon, Stacy Muszynski, Tim Jones-Yelvington on October 12, 2010 | 13 Comments »
With sites (especially blogs, I’d imagine) coming and going, resembling fairweathered friends with their weighty promises and concomitant lack of follow-through, and with evanescence and disposability, perhaps, being two of the internet’s primary characteristics, an internet year must be to an in-real-life year as what a dog year is to a human year. But it’s [...]
Big Other Reading Series #12
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mel Bosworth, xTx on March 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Mel Bosworth reads “The Boy Who Could Go Home” by xTx. Please note that Mel will be on hiatus for a couple of months. We’ll miss you, Mel!
Big Other Reading Series, #11
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Peak, Mel Bosworth on March 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Mel Bosworth reads David Peak’s “Perpetual Motion”.
Big Other Reading Series #10
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christy Crutchfield, Mel Bosworth on March 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Mel Bosworth reads “What if I Told You I Lost the Baby Again,” by Christy Crutchfield.
Big Other Reading Series, #9
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mel Bosworth, Scott McClanahan, The Chainsaw Guy on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mel Bosworth reads “The Chainsaw Guy,” by Scott McClanahan.
Big Other Reading Series #8
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cynthia Reeser, Finishing Line Press, Light and Trials of Light, Mel Bosworth, Prick of the Spindle on February 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Mel Bosworth reads “The Mountain Road,” by Cynthia Reeser.
Big Other Reading Series #7
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged An Island of Fifty, Ben Brooks, Mel Bosworth, Mud Luscious Press on February 17, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Mel Bosworth reads an excerpt from Ben Brooks’s An Island of Fifty.
Big Other Reading Series #6
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lauren Becker, Mel Bosworth on February 10, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Mel Bosworth reads “The Girl,” by Lauren Becker.
Big Other Reading Series, #5
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mel Bosworth, Sasha Fletcher, When All Our Days Are Numbered Marching Bands Will Fill the Streets and We Will not Hear Them Because We Will Be Upstairs in the Clouds on February 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Mel Bosworth reads an excerpt from Sasha Fletcher’s forthcoming novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS & WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE CLOUDS.
Big Other Reading Series, #4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aleathia Drehmer, Mel Bosworth, Waiting by the Window on January 27, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Mel Bosworth reads “Waiting by the Window,” by Aleathia Drehmer.
Look at this fucking writer: Mel Bosworth
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Look at this fucking writer, me in a bucket, Mel Bosworth on January 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
When I was a kid I liked to sit in a bucket while holding a bucket. And I was really blond too. Lots of sunshine. There was no interweb or videogames and there wasn’t much on TV so I’d play outside and when it rained I’d go inside and when it stopped raining I’d go [...]
Big Other’s Reading Series #1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eric Burke, Mel Bosworth on January 6, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Check out Mel Bosworth reading two pieces (text below) by Eric Burke whose work can also be found in elimae, Pank, Right Hand Pointing, Otoliths, and nibble, and forthcoming in A cappella Zoo and Heron. Find out more about Eric Burke HERE.
Mel Bosworth’s Best of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mel Bosworth on December 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Best Movie: District 9. I think I only went to see 2 movies in 2009 and District 9 was one of them. The other was Inglorious Basterds. I’ve gotten bad about going to the movies. I used to catch all of the Oscar contenders in the theater, and all the arty farty films that win [...]