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December 21, 2009December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized

Best of 2009 Part One: Book-ish

I’m glad to be coming in on the whole end of the year list thing at the point where every…

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December 21, 2009December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized

Christopher Higgs, Lily Hoang, Matt Bell, Roxane Gay

These four people are contributors at both HTMLGIANT and Big Other, and I’m wondering what we think about that, if…

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December 21, 2009December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized

Joyelle McSweeney’s vision of poetry’s “future”

Joyelle doesn’t see a future for poetry. She sees a NOW. The end is not imminent; it is connected to…

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December 21, 2009December 21, 2009 - Uncategorized

A New Big Other Contributor!

Please welcome Roxane Gay to Big Other. Roxane’s writing appears or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, DIAGRAM, The Collagist, Hobart, Monkeybicycle,…

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December 21, 2009December 21, 2009 - Uncategorized

Picture Me

Let’s get superficial. At a party a few days ago, I ended up having conversation with Marion Ettlinger (who is,…

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December 21, 2009December 21, 2009 - Uncategorized

Reading Out Loud/Aloud/Loudly

Matt Bell, writing a bit about his drafting process HERE, brought up that he reads out loud a lot when…

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December 21, 2009December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized

Are You a Grammar, Usage, and Style Junkie?

Have you heard about Ammon Shea, the man who’d read all twenty volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary and then…

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