Happy birthday, Meshell Ndegeocello, American singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, and vocalist! 49, today! “We’re all just bags of bones and muscle…
Happy Birthday, Michael Jackson!
Happy birthday anniversary, Michael Jackson, American singer, songwriter, and dancer! “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare…
On Robert Lopez’s All Back Full
Robert Lopez’s darkly comical collections and novels are full of bizarre, dissolute isolatos moving in and out of desultory relationships,…
Remarks on the Beasts: On Nick Francis Potter’s New Animals
Nick Francis Potter’s New Animals (Subito Press) is a startling book, an unleashing of all-too-human humans and other monsters within…
Connecting Dots in Between the Lines: On Gabriel Blackwell’s Madeleine E.
A masterfully collaged prose object, Gabriel Blackwell’s Madeleine E. (Outpost19) defies categorization, privileging fusion and hybridity while also openly displaying…
Happy 60th Birthday, Lance Olsen!: 60 Reasons to Celebrate Lance Olsen
I’ve had the deep pleasure of knowing Lance Olsen (for at least seven years now), reviewing his work, interviewing him,…
Happy 92nd Birthday, William H. Gass!
On the occasion of William H. Gass’s birthday, I’ve cherry-picked sentences from all of his books: a publishing career spanning…
Ten Musicians Who Could Be Novelists: John Madera on Recording Artists Whose Books He’d Love to Read; Or, A Brief Take on the “Tone-Deaf” Audiophile
De gustibus non est disputandum. Then again, what to do when served a tasteless appetizer when promised a flavorful meal…
Object Fiction?
In “Collaborating with Surveillance: Wolfgang Hilbig’s East German Fiction” (see below), Angela Woodward highlights, among other things, Hilbig’s tendency in…