I met Joanna Ruocco at her release gathering for The Mothering Coven. After her reading, she gave me a copy…
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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.…