Big Other’s extravaganza will be taking place with games, prizes, raffles, music and readings. Mary Caponegro will be the headliner.…
Nuggets from Markson’s The Last Novel – more added 6/8
You have to read fifteen hundred books in order to write one. Flaubert put it. *** People who more immediately…
Published for a Day
The Word Riot “Published for a Day” experiment is happening, with over 60 (Sixty!) full length books available for download…
Wittgenstein’s Mistress: An Index
A while back, while doing some critical writing about Wittgenstein’s Mistress, I found myself desperately wishing that it had an…
Skype reading–right now
Notes during and at the close, immediately after, my Skype appearance on Friday, June 4th, at “The Importance of Independents,”…
Loving David Markson
A few years ago, when I was in New York to give a reading, I called David Markson, cold. (His…
The Multifaceted Mike Batt
For the past few weeks, Mike Batt’s “Love Makes You Crazy” has been on constant repetition at my apartment: Like…
Language and science fiction
In a comment to me on this post, John said: “I’d love to see a survey from you of novels…
Postmodernism’s Abundance
No one, I think it’s safe to say (it has always been safe to say), likes the term postmodern. As…
Over Forty Writers Over Forty to Watch
Writing the title of this post actually felt very silly; it seems such an arbitrary way of gathering a list…