For a year or so now I’ve been noticing GrubHub ads: …deliberately crude post-South Park pieces reminiscent of Tao Lin’s…
Joy to the Reader When Reading Gass’s The Tunnel
How can I contain myself? (But perhaps the question is: how could Gass both contain and not contain himself to…
Meat Is All, the next Nephew from MLP
from MLP: The next Nephew title from Mud Luscious Press is officially up for grabs: Meat Is All by Andrew…
Cecilia Vicuña’s Kon Kon in NYC
NEW FILMMAKERS SUMMER FESTIVAL PRESENTS: Kon Kon a film by Cecilia Vicuña Chile, 2010 54 mins Sunday July 3, 2011…
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 5)
George Crumb released Apparition for soprano and amplified piano and Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) for amplified piano; he also revised…
#AuthorFail 2: Sean Beaudoin
Welcome to #AuthorFail (want to get in on this thing? Check here for guidelines.) This week’s installment (cue old-timey radio-play…
An Interview with Me at Untoward
just went up—well, Part One did, in which Matt Rowan asks me questions about my first book (Amazing Adult Fantasy),…
Eileen R. Tabios’ Silk Egg: Collected Novels (Shearsman, 2011)
Eileen Tabios’ latest book Silk Egg is a Wunderkammer — in fact, a series of Wunderkammers — curated with the eccentric intelligence and…
Paddy
Patrick Leigh Fermor is dead. Another great writer I now will never meet. He was 96, a grand age, but…
A Review of Susan Daitch’s Storytown
Storytown, Susan Daitch’s first collection, is a singular achievement, displaying a virtuosic command of technique in service to a kind…