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February 27, 2020February 27, 2020 - Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Review, Writing

The Language of Discontent, by Lisa Gulesserian

  Two separate events spurred the fierce discontent that compelled Micheline Aharonian Marcom to write her first three novels—a trio…

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February 27, 2020February 27, 2020 - Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Review, Writing

What You See Is What You Don’t Know: Thoughts upon Entering and Exiting Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s The Brick House

  Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s The Brick House deliberately and evocatively disrupts easy summary and interpretation, inviting instead multiple, open-ended impressions…

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December 16, 2019 - Featured, Fiction, Interview, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Review, Videos, Writing

Big Other Anthology 2019

  Caveat lector: the following pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc.—all published this year in Big Other—are feral, that is,…

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September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 - Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Review, Writing

“Outgrowths and Trimmings”: The Short Fiction and Poetry of Sam Savage

By Jeff Bursey   Sam Savage’s fiction is filled with characters that stand askew from life. They are outcasts, isolates,…

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April 5, 2019December 6, 2019 - Books, Reading, Review, Writing

Reading Díaz, by Samuel R. Delany

With time and tempests everywhere To rafts of frail assumption cling The saintly and the insincere; Enraged phenomena bear down…

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February 11, 2011April 8, 2020 - Archives, Books, Reading, Review, Writing

On Bradford Morrow’s The Diviner’s Tale

By Gabriel Blackwell   Narrative is a container, a relatively narrow runnel into which we decant the weather-purified stuff of…

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July 14, 2010June 4, 2020 - Books, Reading, Review, Science Fiction, Writing

Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 1

When I set out to blog this year’s Hugo shortlisted novels, I imagined something conventional like a separate post on…

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