Dante 2020-2: Nothing so Claustrophobic as a Castle
A couple of days back, I posted the first of my thoughts about Dante’s Divine Comedy. With the 700th anniversary…
No Ending to The Recognitions
It took nearly five months but I managed to read all the words in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions. In honor…
New Gass Interview
When Greg Gerke told me that there was a new interview with William Gass, I, of course, was excited, only…
Writing and Mortality
A year or two ago, an article made the rounds which had collected ten pieces of writing advice from a…
Brief note
I don’t really have the time or the mental wherewithall to say much about How To Live Safely In a…
Dante 2020, or How Does That Guy Get Away with a Fedora?
Struggling to deliver for BIG OTHER, I’ve kept coming back to the following, on Dante and his Divine Comedy. In…
Best of 2010, Part 5
This post features lists by four excellent writers: Chris Heavener, Lance Olsen, Bradley Sands, and William Walsh. And when you…
The Big Other Interview # 23: Oliver Harris on William S. Burroughs’ Queer
If you meet Oliver Harris someday, tip your fedora. The co-mastermind along with Ian McFadyen behind 2009’s Naked Lunch @50:…
Tiny tiny giants
Back in 2002, I produced a review-essay for The New York Review of Science Fiction that covered four novels by…