Coming Attractions
1. I love when authors I love leak a little information about what they’re working on, so I was basically salivating as I read this interview with Jeffrey Eugenides at FSG’s Work in Progress blog. Anyone else excited about this? I don’t think I have ever met anyone who doesn’t like Eugenides and surely his likability pisses someone here off.
2. Ever since I finished the Vicarious MFA series here, I have been trying to think of a new series and I finally did. It’s called 10 sentences and it’s something like an interview, something like a game, but not exactly either. The first one will be with John Jodzio & you can expect it Monday or Tuesday.
Justin Taylor—
I’d rate the movie solidly in the middle of the pack of Disney live-action films: Escape to Witch Mountain, The Gnomemobile, and the Midvale High movies. Better than the Apple Dumpling Gang, but not as good as Old Yeller.
– Michael D. Houst, Barrington NH, reviewing the new Sorcerer’s Apprentice in the comments section of A.O. Scott’s review of same.
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“On the Youth at Night”
The youth at night would have himself driven around the scream. It lay in the middle of the city gazing back at him with its heat and rosepools of flesh. Terrific lava shone on his soul. He would ride and stare.
-Anne Carson, “On the Youth at Night,” in her book Plainwater
The Beyond Tonight
I was just about to post about the fact that the Museum of Art and Design in New York is playing Lucio Fulci’s amazing zombie flick The Beyond (discussed here) tonight, when it occurred to me that I live on the West Coast, and the East Coast is three hours ahead. So it’s already started. They started the film at 7pm. And you really don’t want to miss the beginning.
I’m an idiot. The Museum of Art and Design is showing a bunch of Italian zombie films, though, in their ZOMBO ITALIANO series. And tomorrow night, they will play the third film in Fulci’s Gates of Hell trilogy. (Which I would’ve maybe mentioned a couple of days ago when the first film played if I wasn’t, you know, an idiot.) Check out the rest of the schedule here. Possibly our friend magick mike can comment on the relative merits of the upcoming films. Know the movies, mike?
And now, everybody point at Matthew and say “Knucklehead!”
One…two…three!
A Friday Poem?
what is it called
what is it called when a doe gives birth to her litter
what is it called when you like pain
what is it called when the moon is closest to earth in its orbit
what is it called when a snake sheds its skin
what is it called when a dog gives birth
what is it called when you cant sleep
what is it called when a sea bird lands on a channel marker
what is it called when a solid changes directly into a gas
what is it called when you can’t smell
what is it called when you cant hear
More after the cut. READ MORE >
Lily Hoang—
I ask this question with all sincerity: Why would people actively choose to read Twilight over any other good book of fiction? Psychologically, wtf are they thinking?
Ryan Call—
John Jodzio picked the following three people to win the Jodzio Book Giveaway: Brooks Sterritt, Snowden Wright, JScap. Winners, please email us your mailing address at htmlgiant [at] htmlgiant.com so we can send you the books.
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“Stop throwing pigeons”
(thanks to Michael Schaub, Bookslut editor and occasional HTMLG contributor)
Unto Us, These States of Grace: A Love Letter to Sugar
When I was younger, I used to read Dear Abby and Ask Ann Landers. Those advice columns offered brief glimpses into the troubled lives of others. Sometimes, the columns were lighthearted and humorous with advice on how to deal with inlaws or children who refused to move out at the age of 31. There were more serious columns that dealt with addiction, or the death of a loved one, or a crumbling marriage. The advice of Ann and Abby was always sage, albeit a bit tame. In a few sentences they applied down home wisdom and common sense but more than anything their advice felt like a brief reminder that we are not alone.
IsReads #7
(Photo by Daniel Wolfe)
isReads 7, the haiku issue, is now live, featuring work by Stephanie Barber, Colin Bassett, Dan Brady, Jimmy Chen, Sarah Eaton, Fred Ecenrode, Molly Gaudry, Jamie Iredell, Chris Killen, Tao Lin, Megan Martin, Sam Pink, Audri Sousa, Bianca Stone and Della Watson.
This issue was posted around Baltimore, Chicago, LA, Indianapolis, Louisville, Minneapolis, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Providence and Seattle.
We’re now accepting work for the 8th issue. Poems should be clean and fewer than 10 lines. Send them to editors@isreads.com.
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July 16th, 2010 / 11:00 am
July 16th, 2010 / 11:00 am