I put off seeing The Room for a long time. Some friends told me it was so terrible that it…
A Proprioceptive Description (Naropa’s Violence and Community Symposium)
As proprioception does not come from a singular or specific organ within the body, but from a sort of strange…
Interview Between j/j hastain and Danielle Vogel re Narrative and Nest (Lulu/Abecedarian Gallery 2012)
1. I am feeling very excited to be engaging with you re this little interview in support of and co-investigation…
“I Don’t Get Art”
Is it actually controversial to say that you don’t get art? People act like it is. And maybe it seems…
New Books Roundup #1
Alternately bizarre, poignant, and unsettlingly funny, William Walsh’s Ampersand, Mass.—the titular town situated somewhere between Winesburg, Ohio and Yoknapatawpha County—brings…
Are There Any Readers Left: “Les Goddesses” and Reading and Writing in Public Solitude
There was an interesting piece on the New Yorker blog a few days ago about a new video performance piece…
Feature Friday: “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” (1968)
Don’t let the odd title put you off! It’s just some funny word meaning how things can become interconnected. Cinematically,…
A Sequence on Sequence, Pt. 2: Matt Dube
[A guest post from Matt Dube, fiction editor for the online journal H_NGM_N. He teaches creative writing and American lit…
Creative Engagement with Maria Damon’s meshwards (Dusie, 2011)
meshwards. meshwards? Forward? Onward? To mesh towards? Maria Damon’s Dusie chap meshwards is a grouping of cross-stitch pieces with…
A Sequence on Sequence, Pt. 1
Those notecards? My book, in sum. On each ruled side [not pictured], the first and last sentence of a…