Would that there were no other kind. Sara Levine, author of the fantastic Treasure Island!!!, was interviewed in the Globe and Mail Monday. The article seems to treat “slow writing” (a “cute” coinage a la “slow food” — fuck) as quaint, eccentric. Disaster!!! I want to say (though I am in complete agreement with what [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Walking”’
Slow Writing?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Josh Billings, Sara Levine, Treasure Island!!!, Walking" on January 25, 2012 | 13 Comments »
Alternative Values in Small-Press Culture
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Greg Gerke, J. A. Tyler, the dominant, Walking" on May 19, 2010 | 70 Comments »
This follows J. A.’s post here, which sprang out of conversation here; it’s also motivated by Greg’s recent post about Rilke. In all three places, I’ve been criticizing some “dominant values” in US culture and small-press culture: There’s nothing inherently wrong with celebrity. There’s nothing inherently wrong with youth. There’s not even anything necessarily wrong [...]
Guest Post, by Jamie Iredell: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Henry David Thoreau, jamie iredell, Walking" on April 29, 2010 | 10 Comments »
“In Wildness is the preservation of the world.” —Henry David Thoreau, in “Walking”