The WikiLeaks story is dramatic on so many levels, with a character at center stage, Julian Assange, worthy of Shakespeare:…
This is Some Awesome Shit.
Check this out — Cathy Day’s students (I think she’s at Ball State? Colleague of Sean Lovelace?) are creating these…
We Know Best What’s Nearest (Living Art Backwards)
A quick follow-up to Tim’s post here, which was itself in response to Jackie Wang’s post here. Wang had asked:…
Stay Classy, Literature
There are more vampires, zombies and werewolves than working-class protagonists in American literature today. Does anyone else worry about this?…
Generationality (In Which I Pirate Jackie Wang’s Groove to Prevent my Becoming BO’s Most Absentee Contributor)
Yesterday at htmlgiant, Jackie Wang asked folks to discuss where they stand re: issues of lineage and generationality, acknowledgment vs.…
Remembering Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007)
What’s your favorite Grace Paley story? I have The Collected Stories and am ready to get started. Meanwhile, I’ve been…
What’s So New about New Wave?
I’ve outlined some of the following in my Looking at Movements series of posts (more of which are forthcoming),…
Ten Words about Each of Them: A Spiraling Summary–Type Review of Bradley Sand’s Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy
‘Seth Schultz’: Seth ruins an orgy by coming dressed as a bear. ‘Eggs Benedict’: A Tyrannosaurus rex, hollandaise, & the…
Announcing My First Book, Amazing Adult Fantasy
Please excuse this bit of self-promotion, but my first prose collection, Amazing Adult Fantasy, will be put out by Mutable…
Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson!
John Domini has reminded me that 180 years ago today Dickinson was born. Recently, I was told by someone that…