I was recently asked to play a game of “Truth or Truth,” an asinine variant of an already asinine game,…
Big Other
What’s happening in this image? The leftmost light bulb is exploding. Why would it do that? Perhaps it wanted to?…
ABR reviewed Big Other
Here, as part of a larger feature on “Book Blogs.” (The review is by Mary Miller.) (To read the whole…
Happy Birthday, Lance Olsen!
Today, October 14, 2012, marks Lance Olsen‘s 56th birthday. In celebration of him and his work, and with a nod…
John Matthew Fox’s “Literary Pillars”
1. Blood Meridianby Cormac McCarthy. I once suggested this as a fixture on high school reading lists and a principal…
“The Ending as Wish-Fulfilment in The Tree of Life, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, and Lost,” by Mazin Saleem
It’s tempting to see the world of The Tree of Life as one where nobody shits.[i] Granted, for all the beautiful…
Big Other’s 50 Pillars, compiled
Me being me, I see vast amounts of data, and I want to analyze it! So here is something of…
Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William H. Gass, 2012
It’s probably too easy a move to begin my very brief remarks about Gass’s use of architecture as a metaphor…
Enter and Exit Strategies: My Literary Doors and Windows
It isn’t simply single books that have impacted my thinking, my writing, my thinking about writing, my writing about thinking,…