[This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor…
Is This What it’s Come To?
A new tactic in the war between rejected writer and editor came to my attention yesterday. In the following video,…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: An Anthology, of Sorts
A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started a series of posts entitled “A Sentence About a…
Autocritique
re: Jimmy Chen’s (very funny) obit for this site, and some comments made there by my friends Tadd Adcox and…
Happy Birthday, Big Other!
With sites (especially blogs, I’d imagine) coming and going, resembling fairweathered friends with their weighty promises and concomitant lack of…
Alternative Values in Small-Press Culture
This follows J. A.’s post here, which sprang out of conversation here; it’s also motivated by Greg’s recent post about…
Writers Stew: Mangla vs. Gerke
Recently I sat down at my computer and had some exchanges with Ravi Mangla. Ravi lives Fairport, New York (near Rochester). His work…
My Favorite Books from 2009 (in alphabetical order):
I’ve read over 120 books in 2009, and by the time the year is up I’ll have reviewed over fifty.…
Cassavetes, for the Spirit and Dialogue
John Cassavetes is still better known for being in The Dirty Dozen in 1967, Rosemary’s Baby the following year. But…
Big Other Contributors’ News #4
Lily Hoang is now an editor at Tarpaulin Sky. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… I WILL SMASH YOU, the documentary film by Luca Dipierro…