“When people call up Rush Limbaugh and say, ‘It’s an honor to speak to you,’ I want to shoot myself.” – interview with Colin Marshall on The Marketplace of Ideas “Her only loyalty seemed to be what she compiled in her witchy journal, her daybook listing the crimes of others against her, forgetting her own [...]
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Read Alexander Theroux
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Al Capp, Alexander Theroux, Audrey Hepburn, Bill Cosby, Bookworm, Colin Marshall, Darconville's Cat, Dumb and Dumber, Edward Gorey, Estonia, Laura Warholic, Marketplace of Ideas, Richard Simmons, Rush Limbaugh, Steven Moore, The Millions, The Primary Colors: Three Essays, The Secondary Colors: Three Essays, Three Wogs, Willard Scott on September 4, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Reader Rage, Henry James Hate
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Temple of Texts, Anger, Arnold Bennett, Bill, Canal Street, Charles-Adam Foster-Simard, Edith Wharton, Hate, Henry James, Henry James and the Joys of Binge Reading, How to Make Sense, Literary Taste, People who hate Henry James, Philip Larkin, Quoting Philip Larkin's poem "This be the Verse" without giving him credit, Rage, Rudolf Flesch, The Believer, The Millions, Virgina Woolf, Ward, William Faulkner, William Gass on March 31, 2011 | 17 Comments »
To start, we have two simmering, searing proclamations: In A Temple of Texts, William Gass quoted Arnold Bennett’s book, Literary Taste: …your taste has to pass before the bar of the classics. That is the point, if you differ with a classic, it is you who are wrong, and not the book. (6) In the [...]
William Gass at The Millions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dana Goodyear, David Shields, Nick Flynn, Reif Larsen, Rosecrans Baldwin, Stephen Elliott, The Millions, Victor LaValle, William Gass on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
William Gass is included in the “A Year in Reading” feature at The Millions. He writes about Rose Macaulay’s Pleasure of Ruins. An excerpt: Macaulay does everything well, but scarcely does one of her pages pass than she has quoted from another and let those words fall into her own concoction like just the right [...]
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 [...]