“It never ceases to startle me that a brilliant thinker can be such a bad writer. It challenges some of my preconceptions about language and thought.”—Rob Horning, “Exhaustion of generic raw material” Frank Hinton would be the first to tell you that I adore Steve Roggenbuck. Not only did his star rise as fast as [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Roxane Gay’
Newfound Footage from Stephen Elliott’s Shining Postscript and the Politics of Reading “Adrien Brody”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adrien Brody, Bake Butler, Frank Hinton, Hate, haters, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Jimmy Chen, Kate Zambreno, Kathy Acker, Madison Langston, new narrative, Peter Sotos, Rob Horning, Roxane Gay, satanic cats, Stephen Elliott, Steve Roggenbuck, submissive men, Tao Lin, The Rumpus, xTx on December 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
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 »
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 [...]
The cover of Roxane Gay’s AYITI reminds me of the opening credits for PANIC ROOM
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alfred Hitchcock, AYITI, David Fincher, North by Northwest, Panic Room, René Magritte, Roxane Gay, Saul Bass, Voice of Space on August 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
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Joseph Riippi’s THE ORANGE SUITCASE
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Robinson, Ampersand Books, Joseph Riippi, Laura van den Berg, Matt Bell, Michael Kimball, Roxane Gay, The Orange Suitcase on April 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Amber Sparks already wrote a fantastic and comprehensive review of Joseph Riippi’s The Orange Suitcase for Big Other, which you can read here, but I want to dedicate a post to “Something About Maxine,” which is a short chapter in three tiny parts, and “Something About the Rest,” another short chapter in three parts. I [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Look at this fucking writer: Roxane Gay
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Look at this fucking writer, Roxane Gay on January 22, 2010 | 11 Comments »
When my youngest brother was born (he has since been known as The Baby, even until today), my other brother and I had, after years of bickering reached a certain accord because we were in mutual agreement that a third child was not needed. We implored my parents to give The Baby back to wherever he had come from, [...]
A New Big Other Contributor!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Roxane Gay on December 21, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Please welcome Roxane Gay to Big Other. Roxane’s writing appears or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, DIAGRAM, The Collagist, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Keyhole and others. She is the associate editor of PANK, blogs for HTML Giant and Barrelhouse. She can be found online HERE.
Roxane Gay’s Best of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Roxane Gay on December 20, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Best Novella Tina May Hall’s All The Day’s Sad Stories I’m not sure if this came out in 2009 but I read it in 2009 and while I’ve read many brilliant things this year, nothing has moved me more than this book. I loved it so much, I wanted to stop writing for a while [...]
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