I was both amused and bemused to note that Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Freedom, is rather predictably being touted as…
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I’ve been taking part in an interesting, intense and at times disturbing discussion of the position of women in British…
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Howard Jacobson has an interesting polemic about comedy in serious fiction in the Guardian. I was particularly struck by this…
You don’t need to like baseball…
in order to enjoy Fact-Simile’s fantastic line of poetry trading cards. They’re assembling a kind of all-star team of innovative poets…
Loving Lowell
Having just finished reading Lord Weary’s Castle, Robert Lowell’s second book of poetry, a collection consisting mainly of revisions of…
Job listing: from my friends at UIC
University of Illinois at Chicago. Assistant Professor, Creative Writing (Poetry), beginning Fall 2011. We are currently seeking a poet with…
The Big Other Interview # 97: Mark Spitzer, part 2
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I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 15 & 16 / 39, TILES & TRAPEZOID / TURKEY
Click through for a review of 23 TEXT TILES & TRAPEZOIDAL JUGGERNAUT / SPIRITUAL TURKEY BEGGAR BASTE MECHANISM,…
Looking at Movements, part 3: No Wave
Part 1: The Post-Punk Revival Part 2: Post-Punk Part 3: No Wave Part 4: New Wave (UK) Part 5: New…
Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson
One of the keys to this book and Bresson himself is the fifth aphorism: “Metteur-en-scène, director. The point is not…