what have you been reading this week?
Break Every Rule, Part 2
Whereas the first chapter of Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule (I wrote about it HERE) is a kind of travelogue…
An Electronic Literature Primer
In “Born Digital,” poet Stephanie Strickland, a “poet in the forefront of the field explores what is—and is not—electronic literature.”…
What is Death’s Configuration?
I’m in the middle of reviewing Mary Caponegro’s new collection All Fall Down. I highly recommend this book, any of…
R.I.P., Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss Brussels, November 28, 1908 – Paris, October 30, 2009 From Maurice Bloch’s obituary: The fame of Claude Lévi-Strauss,…
Big Other Contributor’s News #2
Ryan W. Bradley‘s story “Soft Drugs” is in the latest issue of Emprise. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Molly Gaudry‘s Twelve Stories has a…
New from The Cupboard
A Brief Encyclopedia of Modern Magic by Michael Stewart 32 pages. Tape-bound. $5.00 Every illusion carries a price and no…
Choose Your Own Adventure
When Lily Hoang told me that she was working on a choose your own adventure novel, I immediately thought of…
“Library,” by Albert Golbarth
Library This book saved my life. This book takes place on one of the two small tagalong moons of Mars.…
New Decomp!
New issue of decomP: a literary magazine is up. From Jason Jordan, the Editor-in-Chief: Welcome back to decomP for the November…