Angry People Blurbed Us
Yesterday, we posted about our birthday and had a Backwards Birthday Celebration. Thank you for your nice comments and emails. We really liked that. If you haven’t yet, send us an email to be eligible for the gift drawing.
Today, however, we celebrate the hate. I’ve tried to gather a few mean blurbs, some from our own comments section and others from around the internet. Some are sincerely angry, others are meant to be silly (I think?). I’ve pulled them out of context and pasted them below for fun, but no linkies. You could find the sources if you wanted, I guess.
Feel free to add to the blurb collection: complain, whinge, talk shit, poke fun, lambast, and otherwise roast us if you’d like.
That’s all from me today. Have fun and thanks for reading. I’ve got a bandwagon to board.
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“Reading HTMLGIANT is a pretty good way to get burned out on contemporary literature. Honestly, they promote and overpraise some senselessly crappy stuff.”
Object Press: An Interview with Richard di Santo
I discovered Object Press via this entry on Chad Post’s Three Percent blog, and Post’s enthusiasm for the press and its latest book, a reprint of Christian Oster’s In The Train, convinced me to contact Richard di Santo, the founder. He sent me review copies of the two books he’s published so far and agreed to answer a few questions by email, which you can read below this introduction.
Bananas
Jacob Dahlstrup made this banana boat.
João Machado’s ‘The Effect of a Book’
Gestures from João Machado on Vimeo.
[‘The Effect of a Book, Extending Beyond The Form’] intends to construct an essay or open-ended process, embracing the participation of the reader as a producer of a book. It relates to the experience and performance of a book, looking beyond intended function.
(via Swiss Miss)
Composition With JavaScript
Composition With JavaScript: create your own Mondrian.
(via @Powell_DA)
The Center for Writers Loses Barthelme; Rick Magazine Is Born
Frederick Barthelme will soon leave The Center for Writers and the Mississippi Review, and it seems that he’s taking the Mississippi Review Online editorial staff and vision with him in order to create a new online magazine.
A few weeks ago, The Hattiesburg American ran this article about Frederick Barthelme’s leaving The Center for Writers and the Mississippi Review. There was a little bit of a spat in the comments section of that article, then Brevity picked up the news, as did the MFA blog, but that’s about all the coverage the story received (that I could tell from briefly clicking around yesterday). Then, several days ago, The Chronicle of Higher Education published a story about how Barthelme’s departure will directly affect the status of the Mississippi Review:
The Chronicle asked Barthelme via email what’s going to happen with the Review. “At present, then, there is no staff at all, and there is no one here who has actually run a magazine previously,” he responded. “The interim department chair has been talking to other English faculty (non-creative writing) about taking over the magazine. He is also talking to the remaining CW faculty about the same thing, and it’s unclear which way the tree will fall.”
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July 22nd, 2010 / 10:52 am
July 22nd, 2010 / 10:52 am
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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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Jodzio Book Giveaway
John Jodzio has sent us three copies of his collection If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home for a quick giveaway contest. If you’d like to be eligible for the giveaway, tell us about the weirdest thing you or someone you know has swallowed. John will select from the comments section his favorite three later this week.