On 02 Sept 11, I became a contributor at HTMLGIANT.Here are links to all of my posts:
2013
forthcoming:
"The difference between a concept & a constraint, part 3: What are the consequences?" (literature, theory, writing)
published:
20 May: "Dressing Up Seth Oelbaum" (criticism)
13 May: "A bit more on Susan Sontag and 'Against Interpretation'" (art, theory)
19 May: "7 more points on Barry N. Malzberg" (literature)
06 May: "Animated Gifs as Cinema" (cinema)
29 Apr: "Another way to generate text #7: Gysin & Burroughs vs. Tristan Tzara" (literature, writing)
22 Apr: "Experimental fiction as genre and as principle" (literature, writing)
18 Apr: "The Best Post, Part 2, Part 2" (snippet)
15 Apr: "55 Points: Shoplifting from American Apparel" (cinema, literature)
08 Apr: "How to Be a Critic" (criticism)
04 Apr: "The Best Post, Part 2" (snippet)
01 Apr: "25 Points: 3 Novels by Barry N. Malzberg (Beyond Apollo, The Men Inside, & Galaxies)" (literature, review)
28 Mar: "Tao Lin's development as a poet, 2001–2013" (literature, snippet)
25 Mar: "The difference between a concept & a constraint, part 2: What is a constraint?" (literature, theory, writing)
21 Mar: "Kent Johnson on Marjorie Perloff" (literature, snippet)
18 Mar: "25 Points: Susan Sontag's 'Against Interpretation'" (theory)
11 Mar: "The Next Day" (music, snippet)
07 Mar: "The Most Productive Theory" (snippet)
04 Mar: "How To Get A Post Deleted" (snippet)
04 Mar: "How To Be A Critic (pt. 6)" (craft notes, mean) (Note: this post was deleted.)
03 Mar: "How To Be A Critic (pt. 4)" (craft notes, mean)
02 Mar: "How To Be A Critic (pt. 3)" (craft notes, mean)
25 Feb: "The difference between a concept & a constraint, part 1: What is a concept?" (literature, theory, writing)
22 Feb: "Virginia Konchan welcomes you to her harem" (literature, snippet)
19 Feb: "Announcing Requited Journal #8" (literature)
17 Feb: "Collective Memory, a literary evening with Alain Arias-Misson, Jonathan Baumbach, Steve Katz, Rob Stephenson, & Yuriy Tarnawsky" (events, literature)
12 Feb: "The collected films of B S Johnson are finally getting a video release" (cinema, literature)
04 Feb: "The 474 Best Movies of 2011 & 2012" (cinema)
31 Jan: "What to call a zombie when? Some tools to assist with period-accurate writing" (writing)
24 Jan: "25 Points: The House with a Clock in Its Walls" (literature)
21 Jan: "The 240 Best Movies of 2012" (cinema)
14 Jan: "My Favorite New Movies of 2012" (cinema)
01 Jan: "A Brief Report on Denver Coffee Shops" (writing)
2012
27 Dec: "Xiu Xiu’s Wig Master vs. Why?’s Wig Master" (music)
21 Dec: "Fili was the dwarf who I thought was played by Ryan Gosling" (cinema, geek)
20 Dec: "250 Points: The Hobbit, or, As Expected, a Bogus Journey" (cinema, geek, literature)
13 Dec: "Oh those sexy Asian movies" (cinema, literature)
10 Dec: "An interview with Colin Winnette regarding his new short story collection concerning animals, Animal Collection" (literature)
08 Dec: "Space Jam" (cinema, literature)
03 Dec: "Professor X’s Magic Yellow Wheelchair" (comics, disability studies)
26 Nov: "25 Points: Cloud Atlas" (cinema, literature)
23 Nov: "Pig" (random)
22 Nov: "Turkey" (random)
21 Nov: "Moondog Madness" (snippet)
14 Nov: "Disqusted" (snippet)
13 Nov: "I'm sorry, Mario, but your cultural critique is in another castle: some thoughts on hipster irony" (cinema, culture)
07 Nov: “Writing Game #1: '25, Strange as You Can'” (craft, writing)
31 Oct: "In defense of romance novels" (craft, genre)
30 Oct: "On the inevitability of more Star Wars films" (cinema)
27 Oct: "Borges and Ice" (fiction)
25 Oct: "Is this Borges? Meaning Jorge Luis Borges?" (literature, photography)
24 Oct: "The Chronicles of Mitt" (politics, writing)
23 Oct: "Stanley Kubrick’s first feature film, Fear and Desire (1953), comes out today on Blu-Ray" (cinema)
22 Oct: "R.I.P. George McGovern" (death, politics, snippet)
20 Oct: "Holy shit, Kōji Wakamatsu died" (cinema, death)
18 Oct: "ABR reviewed HTMLGIANT" (literature, snippet)
15 Oct: "Group reading William H. Gass's The Tunnel" (literature, snippet)
12 Oct: "The 2012 Realist Sex Novel Kerfuffle (a response to Blake and Stephen, involving also cowboys, Atlas Shrugged, and the Franzen/Marcus debate)" (craft, writing)
11 Oct: "Great First Lines: Jeremy M. Davies's Rose Alley" (craft, literature)
08 Oct: "The Internet Political Magazine Blog of the Future" (politics)
02 Oct: "The Ultimate Source?" (cinema, culture)
21 Sep: "Birkensnake #5 is now available" (literature, writing)
14 Sep: "The octopus in the room, or, Help me name a phenomenon" (language)
10 Sep: "Reading Frank Miller’s influences on Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy" (cinema, comics)
07 Sep: "Deadly death" (snippet)
03 Sep: "We Need to Talk About Batman" (cinema, comics)
29 Aug: "Triple spoonerisms" (snippet)
27 Aug: "The Ever Risable Dark Knight" (cinema, comics)
22 Aug: "Did I call it or did I call it? Pitchfork's People's List" (music)
21 Aug: "Saying goodbye to Nintendo Power, but hello once again to Howard & Nester" (comics)
20 Aug: "Celine and Julie Go Boating at the Siskel" (cinema, snippet)
13 Aug: "I want to tell you about the latest and possibly last issue of American Short Fiction (a guest post)" (lit, guest post)
10 Aug: "Pitchfork’s Les Misérables List" (music)
09 Aug: "The most used tags" (blogging)
08 Aug: "Magic & Writing & Me" (Magic, writing)
02 Aug: "50 Literary Pillars" (snippet)
31 July: "Chris Marker Died" (cinema, memorial)
23 July: "A very pure example of deceleration: 'Atomization'” (writing, theory)
16 July: "Another way to generate text #6: 'word splitting'" (writing)
10 July: "Announcing Issue 7 of Requited" (literature)
09 July: "The role tautologies play in writing; or saying the same thing a different way when making a story or a poem" (writing, theory)
06 July: "Live-tweeting 2001: A Space Odyssey" (announcement, cinema)
05 July: "Substances" (snippet, health)
02 July: "Catching up with comics and cartooning maestro Tom Eaton" (comics)
28 June: "Our work" (snippet)
25 June: "Another way to generate text #5: 'synonym clusters'" (writing)
21 June: "Cinema x 2: Prometheus & Feature Friday" (cinema)
20 June: "What exactly is Alt Lit?" (literature, snippet)
18 June: "Repetition as rule, repetition as defamiliarization, and repetition as deceleration" (writing, theory)
14 June: "23 brief replies to Blake Butler & Elisa Gabbert & Johannes Göransson & Chris Higgs re: (dear god, what else?) the fucking New Fucking Sincerity" (literature)
14 June: "Past people" (snippet)
11 June: "What we talk about when we talk about the New Sincerity, part 2" (literature)
07 June: "I am drinking gin & wrote about 18 long titles i randomly chose using wikipedia" (literature)
06 June: "I'll burn my book" (Ray Bradbury R.I.P.) (literature, memorial)
04 June: "What we talk about when we talk about the New Sincerity, part 1" (literature)
31 May: "Another way of to generate text #4: 'dictionary clusters'" (writing)
28 May: "Theory of Prose & better writing (ctd): The New Sincerity, Tao Lin, & 'differential perceptions'" (writing, theory)
24 May: "Another way to generate text #3: 'dictionary expansions'" (writing)
21 May: "Viktor Shklovsky wants to make you a better writer, part 1: device & defamiliarization" (craft, genre, literature, writing, theory)
18 May: "R.I.P. Carlos Fuentes" (literature, memorial)
17 May: "Another way to generate text: 'Backmasking' (now with bonus Batman/Beatles content)" (comics, writing)
14 May: "'The Spell Check Technique' (a way to generate text)" (writing)
09 May: "Watching, owning, looking at, listening to, thinking about, and at last finally reading Solaris" (literature)
07 May: "Only the Hulk could have attempted it! Only the Hulk would have been capable of it! Only the Hulk could have done it!!" (comics)
03 May: "A Pan-English Dictionary (for readers of Harry Mathews’s The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium)" (literature)
30 Apr: "Wittgenstein's Mistress: An Index" (literature)
26 Apr: "Black Thorns in the Black Box is coming to Brooklyn" (cinema, music, event announcement)
24 Apr: "The Mystery of the Mysterious Elephant Bird X-Mas Post Punk Song (Now Solved)" (music)
12 Apr: "Reconcile the following two thoughts" (snippet, writing)
09 Apr: "Call for Submissions" (writing)
04 Apr: "Amacher & Moore" (cinema, music)
02 Apr: "I made a video that critiques the opening three scenes of Inception" (cinema)
28 Mar: "I recorded a commentary track for Drive" (cinema)
26 Mar: "The Best Recent Stories: The Results" (writing)
22 Mar: "R.I.P. Christine Brooke-Rose" (literature)
19 Mar: "Looking for Brassneck, Looking for Significance" (music, cinema, theory)
15 Mar: "Cinema x 3: Melancholia, The Tree of Life, Feature Friday" (cinema)
12 Mar: "100 things to do when you have the time" (health)
11 Mar: "Music x 3: Xiu Xiu, Pissed Jeans, Beach House, The Magnetic Fields" (cinema, music)
08 Mar: "Franzen's Status" (literature)
07 Mar: "The Higgs-Jameson Experimental Fiction Debate Part 2" (writing, theory)
06 Mar: "The best recent fiction" (writing, snippet)
05 Mar: "Let’s over-analyze to death…Gotye's 'Somebody That I Used To Know'" (music, cinema)
27 Feb: "The Higgs-Jameson Experimental Fiction Debate Part 1" (writing, theory)
24 Feb: "Announcing, at long last, the Higgs-Jameson Experimental Fiction Debate!" (writing, theory, announcement)
20 Feb: "So Why Have You Not Seen Hail the New Puritan?" (cinema)
07 Feb: "This Friday in Brooklyn: “The Case of Nicolas Chauvin” (White Review reading & magazine launch)" (writing, event announcement)
06 Feb: “'The Hottest Litmag' as determined by everyone who has ever read HTMLGIANT" (writing)
04 Feb: "R.I.P Ben Gazarra & Zalman King" (cinema, memorial)
01 Feb: "The best HTMLGIANT posts as chosen by you the readers of HTMLGIANT or at least some of you" (writing)
30 Jan: "The 248 Best Movies of 2011" (cinema, theory)
27 Jan: "Amen" — a link to Richard Beck's n+1 criticism of Pitchfork Media (music)
25 Jan: "Music Roundup: Martin Seay, Annie Gosfield, The Smiths" (music)
23 Jan: "The Lowest-Grossing Movies of 2011" (cinema, theory)
18 Jan: "More Coincidence?" — SOPA/PIPA Blackout Day and Lily Hoang (random) [No Comments Week]
18 Jan: "Blake Butler vs. Tao Lin" (writing, random) [No Comments Week]
16 Jan: "How Many Movies Have You Seen?" (cinema, theory) [No Comments Week]
09 Jan: "How Many Movies Are There?" (cinema, theory)
06 Jan: "Requited Journal #6" — announcing that issue's release (writing)
02 Jan: "My Favorite New Movies of 2011" (cinema)
2011
22 Dec: "A Debate!" — announcing my debate with Chris Higgs re: the nature of experimental fiction (announcement)
22 Nov: "The Best Post" (writing, snippet)
29 Oct: "A Dozen Dominants, part 2 (aka, “You used to know what these words mean”)" (writing, theory)
29 Oct: "R.I.P. Jiří Gruša" (writing, memorial)
27 Oct: "'A Dozen Dominants: The Current State of US Indy Lit'" (writing, theory)
19 Oct: "A Little Bit More on Cliché" (cinema, theory)
18 Oct: "E-bow the Dancer" — R.E.M. & T. Rex (music, snippet)
15 Oct: "Something Film Understands but that Literature Doesn’t" (cinema, theory)
12 Oct: "Cliché as Necessity (Birthing Innovation)" (cinema, theory)
11 Oct: "Let’s watch a scene from Drive and analyze it" (cinema, theory)
10 Oct: "A Night With Steve Katz" (writing, event announcement)
07 Oct: "Reminder! HTMLGIANT Meetup: Two-Lane Blacktop (Chicago)"
05 Oct: "R.I.P. Charles Napier, 1936–2011." (cinema, memorial)
03 Oct: "HTMLGIANT Meetup: Two-Lane Blacktop (Chicago)" (cinema, event announcement)
01 Oct: "DRIVE" (cinema, genre)
26 Sep: "HTMLGIANT Matrix" (random)
25 Sep: "The Hottest Litmag" (writing, snippet)
21 Sep: "A Critique of Jim Emerson’s Recent The Dark Knight Critique" (cinema)
20 Sep: "Isn’t it time for Dusan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie (1974) to make a comeback, due to its name alone?" (cinema, snippet)
12 Sep: "Art’s a Fucking Mess" (theory)
10 Sep: "Society of the Spectacle, part 2" — a question about 9/11 (snippet)
09 Sep: "Society of the Spectacle, part 1" — a thought about 9/11 (snippet)
08 Sep: "Teaching Creative Writing" (writing, teaching)
04 Sep: "Magic The Gathering as Literature, part 3: The Vocabulary" (Magic, writing)
03 Sep: "Magic The Gathering as Literature, part 2: The Articles" (Magic, writing)
02 Sep: "Magic The Gathering as Literature, part 1 (introduction)" (Magic, writing)