Big Other’s own John Dermot Woods has three new or forthcoming books: No One Told Me I was Going to…
Creative Engagement with Tod Thilleman’s Egghead To Underhoof (our concluding the poem), MEB, 2010
Tod Thilleman’s book Egghead To Underhoof is nothing but brink. Not stacked, really—but trickling downward in chaotic organization. This entire…
This could be any of us, in time
I took this video through an office window one summer. The gentleman waiting for the tour bus is occupying his…
Feature Friday: “A New Leaf” (1971)
Sadly, rumors persist that Elaine May wasn’t a good director. Sure, she wasn’t particularly skilled at finishing her films on…
Managing Despair
The essay below is in the March Playboy Forum. I’ve received their permission to post so that it could be…
Creative Engagement with Kathy Conde’s “Georgia Nights” (Published by CutThroat in February 2012, Volume 12 Issue 1)
Kathy Conde’s “Georgia Nights” is a beautiful full circle type of story–like in the span of a few moments, traversing…
William Gaddis Occupies Wall Street in JR
Dalkey Archive Press has just reissused two of the most important texts of the past sixty years–William Gaddis’s The Recognitions…
Feature Friday: “Wittgenstein” (1993)
Most of this site’s readers are no doubt busy with AWP, but I’ll still throw up a film to watch.…
Q and A: Writer Matthew Simmons, Seattle
In Q and A, I try to get at something valuable from my fellow writers, by asking just a single…