From Thomas Ligotti’s story, “Autumnal.” “And we are always dreaming of the day when all the fires of summer are…
Art as Experience
In the comments section of my last post, Can Video Games Be Art?, I sketched out a definition of art…
Guest Post, by Brian Kiteley: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
From Donald Barthelme’s story “Terminus”: “Naked, she twists in his arms to listen to a sound outside the door, a…
Presence in Work
In light of the new Marina Abramovic exhibition at MOMA, The Artist is Present, and having just read Although Of Course…
Kate Zambreno reads on Friday in NYC
Kate Zambreno reads from her debut novel O Fallen Angel (Chiasmus Press) at Bluestockings Radical Books–a very cool progressive bookstore…
Seth Landman’s Invisible Ear
Do you know Seth Landman? If not, you should. I had the pleasure of meeting him a few weeks ago…
‘On Reading’, if you were ever curious
Shome Dasgupta has started a new series on his blog: ‘On Reading‘, where writers talk very briefly about what reading…
What are people in the NYC subway system reading?
This week’s leading book is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larrson. Did you know the book is…
Assorted Notes on (or a Kind of Review of) Shya Scanlon’s In this alone impulse, (Noemi Press, 2009)
The fifth piece of this collection, “Go beside, and speak,” begins: “I am from I have been thinking. I am…
Partial Thoughts for a Partial Wolf
I received my copy of Matt Bell’s Wolf Parts yesterday. Read it last night. It made me want to say…