I recently wrote an article about failure. The text received moderate attention. I was glad about that. I like attention. I also like pornography. I watch porn almost every night. I’m not joking. When I am involved with someone sexually, I watch porn less. I have certain fetishes. For one, I love acne. When I [...]
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Marie Calloway, My Lover (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Just Love Tao Lin)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acne, Adrien Brody, Amy Fischer, Blake Butler, commodity, failure, fetishes, Fox News, Harper Perennial, HTMLGiant, Jimmy Chen, JonBenet Ramsey, Kate Zambreno, Marie Calloway, Muumuu House, New York Observer, New York Times, nothing, pornography, Roxane Gay, Tao Lin, Ted Nugent, Thought Catalog, Vintage, your butt on December 25, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Dwight Around Your Lips or the Third Thing that Killed Off Elizabeth Bishop
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dwight Garner, Elizabeth Bishop, New York Times, The New Yorker, Tupac Shakur on February 10, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Criticizing Dwight Garner’s reviews of poets is nothing new at Big Other. Two days ago on Elizabeth Bishop’s 100th Birthday, the New York Times ran his review of her correspondence with the New Yorker. It is a lukewarm take stating the book is more for completists–understandably so. I do find issue with Garner’s gloss on [...]