I just finished reading this little bullyrocking gem of wondrous heartbreaking goodness from The Cupboard, which everyone should just automatically…
Of A Monstrous Anthology
At AWP I spent 99% of my time at the Artistically Declined Press table at the bookfair. Two tables down…
“The 20 Greatest Liquid Television Segments”
I don’t usually link to this kind of thing, but this list, from geek culture site Topless Robot, is worth…
I am now the nonfiction and reviews editor at the online journal Requited.
What the title says. (You’ll find Requited here.) Anyone interested in submitting essays, books for consideration, or reviews is invited…
Contemporary Verse Novels: Jacques Roubaud’s SOME THING BLACK and Alix Cleo Roubaud’s ALIX’S JOURNAL
I first heard about these two books from M. Kitchell’s post at HTML Giant. I went to the Dalkey Archives…
Big Other and Vol. 1 Brooklyn Present: Marcy Dermansky, Norman Lock, and Lincoln Michel
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:00pm – 10:00pm Brooklyn Winery 213 N. 8th Street Brooklyn, NY RSVP here. Marcy Dermansky is…
Learning to read Adam Roberts
Every critic has a blind spot, an author for whose work the general acclaim seems mystifying. Any critic worth their…
Food as Device
Anybody who knows me knows this passage. I am constantly quoting it: [H]eld accountable for nothing, life fades into nothingness.…
Contemporary Verse Novels and Anne Carson’s AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED, Selah Saterstrom’s THE PINK INSTITUTION, and C. A. Conrad’s THE BOOK OF FRANK
I’ve been reading and comparing Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, Selah Saterstrom’s The Pink Institution, and C. A. Conrad’s The…
Plunging Puigward: Welcome to La Plata, Mosca
If you’ve been keeping up (or, like me, struggling to keep up) with the Big Other Book Club thus far,…