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March 15, 2012March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized

I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 41 / 41, SLEEPINGFISH 8

Click through to read the full review of SLEEPINGFISH, the forty-first (and final installment) in this full-press review of Calamari…

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February 28, 2012February 29, 2012 - Uncategorized

While the World Was Sleeping: A Review of Blake Butler’s There Is No Year and Nothing

I started reading Blake Butler’s first foray into non-fiction, Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia, when I couldn’t fall asleep one…

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February 22, 2012March 7, 2019 - Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Exits Are: An Interview with Mike Meginnis

“A conversation is a journey, and what gives it value is fear.” So says Anne Carson. Exits Are is a…

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December 25, 2011December 26, 2011 - Uncategorized

Marie Calloway, My Lover (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Just Love Tao Lin)

I recently wrote an article about failure. The text received moderate attention. I was glad about that. I like attention.…

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November 14, 2011August 1, 2019 - Art, Books, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Pop-up Books: An Homage

Last week, as I was picking up some films from the library of my alma mater, the University of New…

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May 14, 2011May 14, 2011 - Uncategorized

Announcing a New Big Other Series: “A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies”

In two days, I’ll be posting the first installment of a new ongoing series at Big Other: conversations I’ve had…

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April 2, 2011April 3, 2011 - Uncategorized

Sentences and Fragments: Sentences I Like

“Dining Room” from Selah Saterstrom’s The Pink Institution (Coffee House, 2004): “Willie called his daughters into the dining room. He…

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July 5, 2010August 14, 2011 - Uncategorized

I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 8 / 39, EVER

Click through for a review of EVER, the eighth in this full-press review series of Calamari books.

March 5, 2010March 6, 2010 - Uncategorized

Highlights from Artifice Magazine, Issue One

It’s always nice to get a beautiful art object in the mail, and so I was happy to receive Artifice…

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December 30, 2009April 30, 2011 - Uncategorized

My Four Favorite New Books of 2009, part 5: Other New Books That I Enjoyed in 2009

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 There are still more! Alphabetically, then…

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