On the occasion of William H. Gass’s birthday, I’ve cherry-picked sentences from all of his books: a publishing career spanning…
Ten Musicians Who Could Be Novelists: John Madera on Recording Artists Whose Books He’d Love to Read; Or, A Brief Take on the “Tone-Deaf” Audiophile
De gustibus non est disputandum. Then again, what to do when served a tasteless appetizer when promised a flavorful meal…
Object Fiction?
In “Collaborating with Surveillance: Wolfgang Hilbig’s East German Fiction” (see below), Angela Woodward highlights, among other things, Hilbig’s tendency in…
Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2016!
Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers.…
National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony and After Party, Tonight!
One-third of the finalists for the awards are small press books. Bravo, N.B.C.C.! While I’d love to see Paul Beatty’s…
A David Bowie of Literature?
Is there a David Bowie of literature?—such an asinine question, as dumb as asking, “Is there a Virginia Woolf of…
from Slavoj Žižek’s Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism (Verso, 2014)
…the big Other is not some kind of substantial Master who secretly pulls the strings but a stumbling malfunctioning machinery.