Kyle Minor’s Best of 2009

Here’s my Best of 2009:

Music:
Vic Chesnutt, At the Cut
David Bazan, Curse Your Branches
Puritan Blister MP3 Blog, by William Bowers

YouTube Videos:
Pamplemousse, “All the Single Ladies,” “Mr. Sandman,” “My Favorite Things”
Mike Magnuson, “Flannery Who?”
Diana Joseph In the Flesh

Books:
In Parenthesis (NYRB reissue), David Jones
American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell

Websites:
The Rumpus
HTMLGiant

Dead European-Americans:
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Jerzy Kosinski

TV Commercials:
anything with Levi Johnston
anything with John Hodgman
anything remixing Frosty the Snowman

Kyle Minor is the author of In the Devil’s Territory, a collection of short fiction, and co-editor of The Other Chekhov.
His recent work appears in The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Plots with Guns, and in anthologies such as Best American Mystery Stories 2008, Surreal South (Press 53, 2007), and Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers (Random House, 2006). Random House named Kyle one of the “Best New Voices of 2006,” and The Columbus Dispatch named him one of their ”20 Under 30 Artists to Watch” in 2007.

John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024). His other fiction is published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His nonfiction is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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2 thoughts on “Kyle Minor’s Best of 2009”

Hooray for the Bonnie Jo nod!

Good to see my man Kyle here at Big Other!

I keep hearing about that David Jones book. Perhaps the universe wants me to read it.

Perhaps also I should email Kyle and see if he wants to do a literary conversation a la Dale Smith and Kenneth Goldsmith:
http://jacketmagazine.com/38/iv-smith-goldsmith.shtml
for Big Other?

Ryan W. Bradley says:

December 11, 2009 at 11:12 pm

Hooray for the Bonnie Jo nod!

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Christopher Higgs says:

December 12, 2009 at 4:46 pm

Good to see my man Kyle here at Big Other!

I keep hearing about that David Jones book. Perhaps the universe wants me to read it.

Perhaps also I should email Kyle and see if he wants to do a literary conversation a la Dale Smith and Kenneth Goldsmith:
http://jacketmagazine.com/38/iv-smith-goldsmith.shtml
for Big Other?

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