For the past few years, Black Square Editions, run by John Yau, has been putting out beautiful paperback books in translation such…
Break Every Rule, Part 2
Whereas the first chapter of Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule (I wrote about it HERE) is a kind of travelogue…
PUSH (a novel) and Precious (the movie)
This past August, I read Sapphire’s novel, Push. It is an incredible story–brutal, heartbreaking, and inspiring. More interesting and impressive,…
An Electronic Literature Primer
In “Born Digital,” poet Stephanie Strickland, a “poet in the forefront of the field explores what is—and is not—electronic literature.”…
Hiding in Public.
Everything hits at once. I haven’t written a post here in a minute, because I was temporarily paralyzed by the…
a single *blank* that kills
tonight, one french horn destroyed an entire symphony, and not just any symphony: tchaikovsky 5. first movement was fine. i…
Big Anticipation
Quite possibly my most anticipated book of 2010 is Brady Udall’s The Lonely Polygamist, due in April. I’ve read Brady’s…
The Dreaded Q&A Session
When you give/attend a reading, what questions do you want to ask the writer? What questions do you actually ask the writer? What are the questions that make you wince?
Form & Structure
Here is something interesting I think: Yes, writers are always playful with language – its structure, its tone, its voice,…
Book Chat: Prose. Poems. A Novel. by Jamie Iredell
Been reading Jamie Iredell‘s Prose. Poems. A Novel. today. Wanted to talk about it with someone, so I figured I’d…