[Video shamelessly stolen from Shane Jones’s Facebook feed] Of course sometimes the hippie with his feet up on the desk…
Stanley Elkin, Ghosting Through Boston, Beautifully
A reminiscence of Stanley Elkin & a one-on-one workshop session I was lucky enough to have.
Announcing the Book Club Schedule!
The votes are in, and the winner of the poll for the first book to be discussed in the Big…
All hail the ILLiad (not to be confused with that other Iliad)
Do you know of ILLiad? It’s an interlibrary loan system from which I’ve recently requested and received the following books (that my…
Interview with Ken Sparling
Sean Lovelace interviews Ken Sparling for Big Other
Recovery Project (3) Ron Silliman – The New Sentence (1977)
The qualities of the new sentence: 1) The paragraph organizes the sentences; 2) The paragraph is a unit of quantity,…
Drawn and Quartered: On Gordon Lish’s The Quarterly, Part One
What follows is a blow-by-blow account of the first issue of Gordon Lish’s legendary literary journal The Quarterly. Here I’ll examine stories by Amy Hempel, Tom Spanbauer, Matthew Levine, Chris Spain, Pamela Schirmeister, Yannick Murphy, J.S. Marcus, Darrell Spencer, Kaye Gibbons, Peter Christopher, Janet Kauffman, and Tom Rayfiel; a novella by Jane Smiley; poems by Paulette Jiles, Robert Gibb, John Allman, William Freedman, Jack Gilbert, Ansie Baird, Diane DeSanders, and Harvey Shapiro; and letters by Nancy Lemann, Pagan Kennedy, Harold Brodkey, James Laughlin, Amy Hempel, Patty Marx, Robert Jones, E.J. Cullen, and Dan Duffy; and drawings by Don Nace. I hope to eventually cover every single issue of this incredible journal.
More after the jump.