[Update: 2010 is here] [and 2011 is here] Here are my favorite new movies of 2009, like you care. I’m…
Sometimes I have trouble balancing what I read…
I feel like I am constantly battling with myself over what I’m reading. I started thinking about this because of…
Ringing in the New
I can’t keep gushing about Mary Caponegro. A few days ago, I found this timely passage from her novella A…
5 Books Published in 2009 that Wrecked My Brain a Little
Easter Rabbit, Joseph Young. This is an IMPORTANT book. Some reviewer predicted early in Richard Brautigan’s career that he was…
My Favorite Books from 2009 (in alphabetical order):
I’ve read over 120 books in 2009, and by the time the year is up I’ll have reviewed over fifty.…
Write Poems, Eat Carrots, Listen to Slayer
though Steve Shea is the angry, yelling, loud, frontman of a band which generally plays in under-permitted, under-ground venues around Boston, is the fact that he unequivocally loves Katherine Mansfield
My Four Favorite New Books of 2009, part 5: Other New Books That I Enjoyed in 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 There are still more! Alphabetically, then…
Paula Bomer’s Best of 2009
Don’t Cry, by Mary Gaitskill Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, by Wells Tower Brandi Wells Review Josh Kleinberg editing Slipshot Review…
sad to hear, but you know, it happens
James Kaelan is leaving the flatmancrooked family to spend a bit more time on his teaching & writing. read the…
Big Other Contributors’ News #9
A D Jameson‘s story “Waste Extraction” is up at Necessary Fiction. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Stacy Muszynski: Q&A with Laura van den Berg at…