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Christopher Higgs recommends Tierra Whack's WHACK WORLD, Otomo Yoshihide's ANODE, Marlon James's BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF, and a lunch of cucumber, tomato, red onion, feta, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
Here is the publication schedule for the next volume of my ongoing series “What is Experimental Literature? {Five Questions}” which promises to be dynamite, thanks to the amazing contributions from the writers who have graciously joined the conversation. New writers, new questions!
Week of June 6th
Brian Evenson
Dodie Bellamy
Week of June 13th
Eileen Myles
Evan Lavender-Smith
Week of June 20th
Johannes Göransson
Sesshu Foster
Week of June 27th
Dennis Cooper
Selah Saterstrom
Week of July 4th
Vi Khi Nao
Michael Martone
Very excited to learn about this new free digital edition of the out-of-print Fluxus Reader, via Jacket 2.
What is Fluxus you ask? A few introductory examples after the jump…
I’m excited to announce that the second volume of my ongoing series will resume in June.
If you missed any of the ten responses from the first volume, I’ve cataloged them for your convenience here.
The second round of questions come from answers given by the participants in the first round, and the people giving answers this time will be:
Dennis Cooper
Dodie Bellamy
Evan Lavender-Smith
Eileen Myles
Brian Evenson
Vi Khi Nao
Selah Saterstrom
Johannes Göransson
Sesshu Foster
Michael Martone
Stay tuned. It’s gonna be good!
Tuesday, May 17, 2011; 7 pm PROSE EVENT
With readings by Renee Gladman, Danielle Dutton and Amina Cain.
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Renee Gladman is the author of four works of prose, most recently To After That (TOAF) and Event Factory (Dorothy) and one collection of poetry, A Picture-Feeling. Since 2005, she has operated Leon Works, an independent press for experimental prose and other thought-projects based in the sentence, making occasional forays into poetry. She teaches in the Literary Arts Program at Brown University, and lives in Massachusetts.
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Danielle Dutton is the author of two books — S P R A W L and Attempts at a Life — and her fiction has appeared in magazines such as Harper’s, BOMB, and The Brooklyn Rail. She designs books at Dalkey Archive Press; teaches in The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa; and edits Dorothy, a publishing project.
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Amina Cain is the author of the short story collection I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009), and an upcoming chapbook, Tramps Everywhere (Insert Press/PARROT SERIES). She is also a curator/organizer, and a teacher of creative writing/literature. Her writing has appeared in publications such as 3rd bed, Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Dewclaw, Encyclopedia Project (F-K), LRL, onedit, and Wreckage of Reason: Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers, and has been translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Location: Dixon Place: 161 Chrystie Street; New York, NY
Admission: $6
All around my desk, stacks of texts pile up until Beatrice (our mackerel tabby) knocks them down. Then I try to re-stack them. One stack should be material for review, one stack for fun, one stack for research projects, etc. This always never works. Stacks blend with other stacks to form new stacks. With my wife’s desk on the opposite wall in our study, her stacks always threaten to encroach on my stacks, our individual stacks blending to make ever more new mutant stacks. Our bookshelves are brimmed with books: no room remains anywhere there. I’d take a picture to show you the absurdity of it, but probably many of you have similarly absurd looking book situations.
At any rate, one of the stacks is stuff I’ve intended to write about here on htmlgiant, but for one reason or another, one prior commitment or another, I got sidetracked and failed to write about it like I should have or would have or wanted to, etc. Some of it I’ve read cover to cover, some of it I’ve taught to undergraduates, some of it I’ve still only flipped through. I’m sure some of the texts in the stack have moved to other stacks, so I’m probably gonna omit stuff, but at least here are a few of the things in that stack…
“An Evening of Poetry”
Event Continues Arts Education Series at the White House on May 11th
The President and Mrs. Obama will host a celebration of American poetry and prose by welcoming accomplished poets, musicians and artists as well as students from across the country to the White House next week. Participants include Elizabeth Alexander, Billy Collins, Common, Rita Dove, Kenneth Goldsmith, Alison Knowles, Aimee Mann and Jill Scott who will read, sing, and showcase the impact of poetry on American culture. The President will make opening remarks at this event held in the East Room, which will be pooled press and streamed live on www.whitehouse.gov starting at 7:00 p.m. ET.
Find out more over at Jacket 2. (Thanks to Kent Johnson for the tip!)
If you haven’t already, check out this amazing series over at Delirious Hem, curated by Kate Durbin & Becca Klaver called:
SEAM RIPPER: Women on Textual & Sartorial Style
which includes superlative material from Kate Durbin herself, Jackie Wang, carina finn, Danielle Pafunda, Elisa Gabbert, and many others…
Just returned home, having spent the past few days helping my brother move to Chicago. After we unpacked the moving truck, we hit up a few bookstores. Here’s what I thought about them:
Do you want to know a secret? Literature is not for everyone. People grant that about other arts — serial music isn’t for everyone, nor is Balinese shadow dancing — but when it comes to fiction, there’s a democratic assumption that anyone with a basic education should be able to read and enjoy any novel…Why this bleeding-heart concern for “the mass of readers,” “the common reader?” (page 24)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiazgGFoGJU
Klaus Kinski
Nov. 20th, 1971 in Berlin, Germany
“Jesus Christus Erlöser ” (Jesus Christ Savior)
Total duration of the video: 1h23mn54s
