A couple weeks ago, when I posted these quotes from New Narrativists abt gossip, I left them unaccompanied by any…
Look at this fucking writer: Lincoln Crisler
This is a picture of my father and I on Easter Sunday, about twenty years ago. By the time I…
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I have, finally and rather reluctantly, finished Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. It is a book that has absorbed me…
Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception
1. Christopher Nolan, while presumably a rather likable fellow (he does give work to Michael Caine), is a depressingly artless…
Union Street Press Presents Joseph Young’s Vampire Novel, NAME
When microfiction writer Joseph Young (Easter Rabbit, 2009) realized he wouldn’t be making September’s rent, he did what hundreds of…
Montevidayo
You read Big Other if you’re reading this – which means you like reading blogs – so here’s another one…
Word and sentence
One of the unexpected delights of writing for Big Other has been the occasional book that has come my way…
Lannan Foundation Author Videos
HERE Highlights include William Gass and J.M. Coetzee, who sits stark still, invisibly chained. Also Grace Paley, John Berger, John…
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (11-17/53)
Earlier: (1-2/53) (3-6/53) (7-11/53) 11. From Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School (1978): “The plants in her room cast…
Belladonna* & Dusie Present: The Summer Reading
Kate Zambreno (whom I’m trying to get nicknamed “KaZam!”—do pass it on) asked me to draw your kind attention to…