:::: Learning to travel is another way of saying learning to read. (37) :::: For five months at the beginning…
Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass (continued)
25 remaining, & here they are, picking up where we left off, with Tolstoy & his disgraced Natasha 26) The…
A Sequence on Sequence, Pt. 1
Those notecards? My book, in sum. On each ruled side [not pictured], the first and last sentence of a…
An Interview with Me at Untoward
just went up—well, Part One did, in which Matt Rowan asks me questions about my first book (Amazing Adult Fantasy),…
From the Barbaric Heart: Michiko reviews my unwritten book!
I’m going to post three short things regarding the NY Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani. They are mostly lies and…
Ignorance Is a Kind of Sickness
Have you seen Geoff Dyer’s I’m-just-thinking-out-loud-here piece: “My literary allergy,” a pseudo-contrarian response to the work of David Foster Wallace,…
Good Old NeonLeaks: Transparency in Politics and Literature
The WikiLeaks story is dramatic on so many levels, with a character at center stage, Julian Assange, worthy of Shakespeare:…
We Know Best What’s Nearest (Living Art Backwards)
A quick follow-up to Tim’s post here, which was itself in response to Jackie Wang’s post here. Wang had asked:…
David Foster Wallace, on Television, on Television as the Dominant
I’m very fond of quoting from Roman Jakobson’s 1935 essay “The Dominant”. Lately I’ve been thinking about this passage in…