Jeremy M. Davies’s Rose Alley has been on my mind as of late, so this one’s for him. I asked…
Creative Engagement with Kim Vodicka’s Aesthesia Balderdash (Trembling Pillow, 2012)
Chock-full like Joyelle Mcsweeney’s Percussion Grenade or Roxanne Carter’s How I Taught My Dress to Act, Vodicka’s Aesthesia Balderdash feels…
A Response to Mary Miller
Earlier this month, Adam had posted a note saying that Big Other was reviewed by Mary Miller in the July/August…
Feature Friday: “Go, Go Second Time Virgin” (1969)
Director Kōji Wakamatsu passed away on the 17th. I like this film of his.
Thoughts About Christine Schutt’s Nightwork
I was recently asked to play a game of “Truth or Truth,” an asinine variant of an already asinine game,…
Big Other
What’s happening in this image? The leftmost light bulb is exploding. Why would it do that? Perhaps it wanted to?…
Feature Friday: “Maroooned in Iraq” (2002)
I first came across Bahman Ghobadi while living in Bloomington-Normal; the Normal Theater showed A Time for Drunken Horses (2000).…
Creative Engagement with Lonely Christopher’s Crush Dream (Radioactive Moat, 2012)
Lonely Christopher states that his new book Crush Dream is the second installment in a trilogy of books titled The…
ABR reviewed Big Other
Here, as part of a larger feature on “Book Blogs.” (The review is by Mary Miller.) (To read the whole…
Group Reading William H. Gass’s The Tunnel
FYI, Scott Esposito is leading a group reading of William H. Gass’s The Tunnel over at Conversational Reading. It’s three…