Today, October 14, 2012, marks Lance Olsen‘s 56th birthday. In celebration of him and his work, and with a nod…
Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William H. Gass, 2012
It’s probably too easy a move to begin my very brief remarks about Gass’s use of architecture as a metaphor…
Lance Olsen’s “Literary Pillars”
1. Petronius, Satyricon (1st century A.D.) 2. Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605, 1616). 3. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759-67) 4. Mary…
Some few thoughts on facticity
You know the difference between plain old “sci-fi” and “hard science fiction”? One’s boring. Nah. I’m just joking. The…
Best of 2011, Part 3
Euphorbia Rhizophora: A Harvested Ginger Rhizome I love reading lists, especially lists from smart people who are paying attention and…
Toward a “Bibliography of Important Experimental Texts”
Recently, on Facebook, Lance Olsen mentioned that he’s in the midst of “compiling a bibliography of 100 important experimental texts…
Best of 2010, Part 5
This post features lists by four excellent writers: Chris Heavener, Lance Olsen, Bradley Sands, and William Walsh. And when you…
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…
This Wednesday: FC2 in NYC: Margo Berdeschevsky, Brian Conn, Lance Olsen, & Rob Stephenson
Just wanted to help spread the word for those not on Facebook: An Unnameable Reading: Fiction Collective Two in Brooklyn…
Over Forty Writers Over Forty to Watch
Writing the title of this post actually felt very silly; it seems such an arbitrary way of gathering a list…