Kim Chinquee’s new stunning collection Pretty is now out from White Pine Press. Here we present “Boom Box,” an uncollected…
On Lance Olsen–4 years later
I’ve been thinking a lot about Lance Olsen lately—not only because he tied up and duct taped my mouth during…
Blogging the Hugos: Wake
By chance, I happen to have all bar one of the novels shortlisted for this year’s Hugo Award (the one…
Big Other Contributors’ News, #19
Farewell to Kristen Iskandrian who is leaving to become a contributor at Html Giant. Thanks, Kristen! Ryan W. Bradley‘s novel, Code…
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 6 / 39, BEAR STORIES
Click through for a review of BEAR STORIES, the sixth in my full-press review series of Calamari Press.
N’awrlins
I just returned from a trip to New Orleans (or, as a jazz singer reminded us in song, N’awrlins). We…
Poetry and the Nation
Linh Dinh reports, over at Harriet: The Blog, that: Seldomly do we see this kind of gravity in American poetry.…
Way to PANK it up, y’all!
Congrats to Big Other’s own Tim Jones-Yelvington, who will guest edit PANK’s October “special online issue featuring Queer prose, poetry,…
Brendan Connell’s new collection: METROPHILIAS
I heard rumors of this collection way back, but BNS has gone silent for a time. & yet, here it…
On an “alleged ‘story’,” that “wreaks of poetry”
A mini-discussion about poetry and fiction transpired at Annalemma. Afton Carraway asserts that a story, “Illusions [N2],” featured in the latest…