Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers.…
How I Wrote Certain of My Books
[In which I elaborate on an earlier post, “Slow Writing?“] In thinking about my earlier contention that writing ought to…
Reading Caponegro’s The Complexities of Intimacy: “The Son’s Burden”
This 113-page novella is the centerpiece of Caponegro’s book of stories. As in the first stories (articles here, here and…
Reading Caponegro’s The Complexities of Intimacy: “The Father’s Blessing”
“The Father’s Blessing” is the longest story in The Complexities of Intimacy so far, and it’s a major comedic turn,…
Reading Caponegro: “The Mother’s Mirror”
The more I delve into Caponegro’s art, the more I see an anthropologist at work–a Joycean scientist who curls bright,…
Reading Caponegro: “The Daughter’s Lamentation”
The first story in Mary Caponegro’s book we are reading for February is “The Daughter’s Lamentation.” Caponegro follows the word…
February’s Big Other Book Club – Mary Caponegro
This month we will be reading The Complexities of Intimacy by Mary Caponegro. It’s a book of 4 short stories…
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…
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…