This is by way of a pendant to my previous post about short stories. Maureen Kincaid Speller picked up on…
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 11)
Peter Weir was directing Gallipoli. Peter Bogdanovich was directing Ben Gazzara in Saint Jack (1980). The film, which was shot…
The fourth Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize, from Lake Forest College and &NOW BOOKS
This just in…. Lake Forest College is pleased to recognize fiction writer Elizabeth Gentry as the fourth winner of the…
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 10)
Nurse With Wound released their debut album, Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella.…
Gary Lutz’s Divorcer: A Word-Hoard
Gary Lutz is easily one of my favorite writers. I’ve read each of his collections at least twice, and I…
#AuthorFail 10: Laura Goldstein
Um, well, this is embarrassing: if you checked this post this morning between 9 am – 9:26, you would have…
Azazel with tail X-Men First Class
For over two weeks now, this picture’s been getting a lot of hits here at Big Other: 364 total page…
Is Anyone Else SHOCKED by Ben Marcus’s Traditional Short Story in The New Yorker???
I always think of him as the King of experimental form—and from some interviews in the past, thought he had…
The Satisfaction of Incompleteness: A Conversation with Kristina Marie Darling
Last month, I talked with Kristina Marie Darling over email about her new book Compendium (Cow Heavy Books, 2011)—topics ranged…
YouTube Delivers People
A cute update on the classic: