Is there a David Bowie of literature?—such an asinine question, as dumb as asking, “Is there a Virginia Woolf of…
Writing On It All: Governors Island, June 2013
Alex Chasin, who has been featured a few times as a guest contributor at Big Other, is spearheading a site-specific…
Books lost between California and England. (Also on Head-On, Birol Ünel, blood, Pierre Loti, Lea Salonga, appendicitis in Paris, flirtations, transoceanic accents, impossible eulogies, Patroclus and Achilles, lost things, holes, giving yourself up.)
Nearly two years ago, when I moved to England from California, I had a box of books shipped over from…
Contemporary Verse Novels: Carson, Saterstrom, Conrad, the Roubauds, Boully, and Ruefle
What is a beginning? What is an ending? What makes a particular grouping of words become a poem or a…
Contemporary Verse Novels and Anne Carson’s AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED, Selah Saterstrom’s THE PINK INSTITUTION, and C. A. Conrad’s THE BOOK OF FRANK
I’ve been reading and comparing Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, Selah Saterstrom’s The Pink Institution, and C. A. Conrad’s The…
Over Forty Writers Over Forty to Watch
Writing the title of this post actually felt very silly; it seems such an arbitrary way of gathering a list…