Please welcome Paula Bomer to Big Other. Paula Bomer is the author of Baby and Other Stories (Word Riot Press,…
Guest Post: Paula Bomer: On Tolstoy’s “The Devil,” David Foster Wallace’s Suicide, Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder’s Letters from Mexico, and Self-Control
The epigraph to “The Devil” quotes Matthew v. 28-30 regarding lusting after a woman (who is not your wife): “And…
Guest Post: Paula Bomer: McCarthy’s Anton Chigurh and the Meaning of Violence
When I wake up and drink my tea, I lie in bed and stare out my window. There is a…
Looking Back, Part 4: Books
Best Novel: Honorable Mentions: Best Story Collection (Tie): Best Nonfiction: Best Poetry Collection (Tie): Best Chapbook: And that, folks,…
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…
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…
Paula Bomer’s Best of 2009
Don’t Cry, by Mary Gaitskill Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, by Wells Tower Brandi Wells Review Josh Kleinberg editing Slipshot Review…