Note: This was originally published November 10, 2010. A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started…
Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2016!
Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers.…
Recent Literary Disputes
I have to admit that neither Christian Lorentzen’s nor Kyle Minor’s respective takes on Alice Munro’s stories and books have…
Michael Leong’s Recent Reading at Brown University
Here’s the introduction I delivered before Michael Leong’s reading at Brown University’s Literary Arts Department’s Demitasse on April 3, 2013:…
Face Out Reading, October 10 @ 6:30 pm in New York
Celebrating New Work from 2012 CLMP Face Out Grantees Wednesday, October 10 at 6:30 pm ~ FREE NYU Main Bookstore…
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…
Michael Leong’s “Literary Pillars”
4.48 Psychosis, Sarah Kane The Anchored Angel, Jose Garcia Villa Altazor, Vicente Huidobro Anthology of Concrete Poetry, Emmett Williams (ed.)…
Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William Gass, 2011
I would imagine that a certain amount of anxiety accompanies any attempt to write about William Gass and his work,…
Poetry vs. Pop Culture (or, Does Anyone Dance to John Berryman?)
I was going to post this as a comment on Michael’s wonderful post from yesterday, but then it got too…