In Q and A, I try to get at something valuable from my fellow writers, by asking just a single…
art and self-restraint: the work of david shrigley
I laughed a little when I found this drawing on the website for David Shrigley, a Glasgow-based artist. There’s not…
A Jello Horse and Your Rightful Home
Yesterday I read Matthew Simmons’s A Jello Horse (Publishing Genius, 2009), immediately after finishing Alyssa Knickerbocker’s Your Rightful Home (Flatmancrooked,…
The Varieties of Poetic Experience
A while ago I began to solicit videos of friends and associates reading/performing/interpreting poems from my collection, In This Alone…
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.…
Powers of Attraction
The narrator of Matthew Simmons’s A Jello Horse takes detours to odd roadside attractions. This aspect of the book reminded…
Bradley Sands’s Best of 2009
Here’s a quick run-through of the books that I read this year and came out this year. Pretty much the…
Big Other Contributors’ News #6
Molly Gaudry and Kim Chinquee have been translated into Polish, alongside Matt Bell, Jamie Iredell, Claudia Smith, and a number…
Big Other Contributors’ News #4
Lily Hoang is now an editor at Tarpaulin Sky. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… I WILL SMASH YOU, the documentary film by Luca Dipierro…