I am reading John Armstrong’s inestimable In Search of Civilization. I am reading it slowly. On page 123, Armstrong observes, It…
Conjunctions Celebrates the Spring Issue with a Free Reading at Bookcourt
Peter Straub, Benjamin Hale, Alexandra Kleeman, and Tim Horvath Read from their Stories in Conjunctions:56, Terra Incognita: The Voyage Issue,…
A Guide to My Writing Here at Big Other
I’ve done a lot of posting since I started writing here (in December 2009). To make it all easier to…
On St George’s Hill
I have finally had the opportunity to watch Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo’s 1975 film Winstanley, something I have wanted…
“Whose world is this? / The world is yours”—A Requited Journal Film Screening
Requited Journal invites everyone in the Chicagoland area to an art exhibition featuring video works curated by Ferestheh Toosi for…
We are Made of Stories: A Post in Honor of Short Story Month 2011
Literary writers love short stories. The general public, we notice, does not. We are told to write novels, or at…
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 1)
Paul Simon was making One Trick Pony. Art Garfunkel was starring in Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing.
In Buenos Aires with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Seeing that A D recently mentioned seeing Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (see my first…
Tom Williams’s THE MIMIC’S OWN VOICE
The Mimic’s Own Voice by Tom Williams Main Street Rag, 97 pages, $9.95 This is a difficult book to write…
Jerry Lewis’s “The Ladies Man”: The Dollhouse and the Forbidden Room
He’s become a punchline here in the US, but that doesn’t make Jerry Lewis any less of a cinematic genius.…