Los Angeles-based artist Bill Barminski:
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“If I could make one wish for the members of my profession, college and university professors of literature, I would wish that for one year, two, three, or five, we would give up readings. By a reading, I mean the application of an analytical vocabulary — Marx's, Freud's, Foucault's, Derrida's, or whoever's — to describe and (usually) to judge a work of literary art. I wish that we'd declare a moratorium on readings. I wish that we'd give readings a rest.”
“Against Readings” by Mark Edmundson
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“I've been thinking about narrative and bourgeois narrative, about the novel and the bourgeois novel. It seems important not to conflate these terms.”
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Heidegger Speaks. Part 1. English subtitled by Markus Semm
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In mid-May, Matthew Simmons's novella A Jello Horse will be published by Publishing Genius Press. To celebrate, Simmons is holding a contest:
"When the book comes out, I will be getting a very, very small number of hardcovers made. I will not be selling them, though. I will be giving them away. Let's have a contest."
Go here to learn more.
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The Brothers Quay chat with poet Ish Klein about their touring exhibition "Dormitorium," during the 2009 Philadelphia Film Festival/CineFest:
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“Walter Benn Michaels, the punchy professor of American literature and theory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, came to New York last week and delivered an emphatic message to novelists: Please start writing more about class issues and the social order of contemporary life!”
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"I like to structure a story as "three disasters plus an ending". Each of the disasters takes a quarter of the book to develop and the ending takes the final quarter."
Randy Ingermanson explains "How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method"
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“We live in a world of too many books. There's not enough time to read the books we have to read, never mind the books we should read or the books we want to read.”
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Andy Gilmore is based out of Rochester, NY:
