Anne K. Yoder recently pointed out this Susan Sontag quote to me (it’s from the opening of her…
Miscellany
The Buffalo Small Press Fair is March 27th. Starcherone Books, Dogzplot (Paper Hero/Achilles) , Blaze Vox, Sunnyoutside and Zygote in My…
Brian Evenson’s Baby Leg
Baby Leg, like last year’s Last Days, starts in medias res. Kraus: the protagonist, the wrong man and the man…
For Those Whom God Has Blessed With Fingers: A Ken Sparling Novel
What is Ken Sparling up to? Why does the Toronto-based writer compose novels the way he does? His first,…
AWP in New York
While many of us are going to AWP in Denver, many more aren’t. I’m inviting any poets and writers to…
Samuel Beckett’s Shorter Plays
Samuel Beckett’s shorter plays were written in the second half of his life. After the ‘Siege in the Room’ of…
Tell us…
Who are some of the most underappreciated writers? And I mean more in our sphere than the canonical world. I offer…
The Langley School Music Project – Oh Canada
…it sounded like it was recorded by some strange cult of youngsters who were gathered somewhere in a dungeon late…
Women and Men
Kathryn Bigelow and her film The Hurt Locker are on tap to win Oscars and make history for becoming…
Anatomy of a Flash – Jimmy Chen (Guest post by Keith Nathan Brown)
Jimmy Chen is a writer. His flash fiction, “Footnote1,” engages the mental sphere, tolls the emotional chamber, and continues to…