January 22, 2010 – BIG OTHER

Brevity, Part 6: Roundhay Garden Scene, ctd.(well, it’s short)

Roundhay Garden Scene is hardly the only short film that transcends its brief running time. Here are seven other shorts…

I used to believe that all roads named with the name of a place eventually led to that place. To…

Scott McClanahan is the author of Stories and the newly released Stories 2, which I discussed HERE. He lives in…

Do you actively try to align your metaphors and similes with the general themes of your text? Or do you…

“David Foster Wallace is very good at becoming the whole of boredom.” –Page 33, How Fiction Works, James Woods

Here are two paintings from different stages in the career of Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944), the Russian-born painter considered a pioneer…

I am writing some Mad Hatter-March Hare slash, which I fully intend to parade past every respectable magazine I can…

John Dermot Woods will be reading fiction and showing comics at Freebird books in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, Sunday, January 24,…

When my youngest brother was born (he has since been known as The Baby, even until today), my other brother and…

When I was a kid I liked to sit in a bucket while holding a bucket. And I was really…