Last month, I talked with Kristina Marie Darling over email about her new book Compendium (Cow Heavy Books, 2011)—topics ranged…
Contemporary Verse Novels and Sentences and Fragments: Charles Simic’s DIME STORE ALCHEMY
I’m not really sure why I keep writing about “Contemporary Verse Novels,” because I’m not that interested in labeling things.…
Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?
In my last post on this topic, I argued that cinema can be redefined as “the cinematic arts,” which would…
Brevity, part 7: Slow Motion
Note: This post is partly a reply to a question someone asked me, back-channel, about slow motion, but also partly…
Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle
Christopher Higgs at HTMLGIANT recently posted this question: “If you were teaching a class on American experimental fiction, what texts…
Brevity, Part 6: Roundhay Garden Scene, ctd.(well, it’s short)
Roundhay Garden Scene is hardly the only short film that transcends its brief running time. Here are seven other shorts…