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July 31, 2012March 7, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized

Unstuck #2

  [Unstuck‘s first issue, which came out last November, was big: 352 lavishly illustrated pages, and incredible fun to read…

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July 30, 2012February 24, 2019 - Uncategorized

Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William H. Gass, 2012

It’s probably too easy a move to begin my very brief remarks about Gass’s use of architecture as a metaphor…

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July 30, 2012August 1, 2012 - Uncategorized

Enter and Exit Strategies: My Literary Doors and Windows

It isn’t simply single books that have impacted my thinking, my writing, my thinking about writing, my writing about thinking,…

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July 30, 2012February 25, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized

For Big Other on William H. Gass’s Birthday

If one tried to construct the Temple of Literature from only the fifty “pillars” below, it would collapse spectacularly. Nevertheless,…

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July 30, 2012March 8, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Uncategorized

William Walsh’s “Literary Pillars”

After examining three bookshelf walls in our home—one in the living room and two in the basement (one on the…

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July 30, 2012August 1, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Tim Horvath’s “Literary Pillars”

The Top Five: As widely as my tastes ebb and flow, these five remain, stalwarts, five friends I want with…

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July 30, 2012August 7, 2012 - Uncategorized

Dan Wickett’s “Literary Pillars”

If this were truly an honest list, there’d be around 34 Dzanc titles and the other 16 titles would have…

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July 30, 2012August 7, 2012 - Uncategorized

Derek White’s “Literary Pillars”

1.    Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You—Frank Stanford 2.    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts—Amos Tutuola 3.…

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July 30, 2012August 7, 2012 - Uncategorized

“My Fifty Literary Pillars,” by Amber Sparks

Unlike the wonderful William Gass, I am not a scholar, nor am I particularly well-versed in the language of literary…

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July 30, 2012August 7, 2012 - Uncategorized

Janey Smith’s “Literary Pillars”

1. AA Bronson, File Magazine, Queer Zines (with Phillip Aarons). 2. Adam Parfrey, Apocalypse Culture, The Manson File. 3. Alfred…

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