Electric Bookaloo

D'Ambrosio

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:41:00 -0800

From Screenwriter, a short story that can be found in The Dead Fish Museum. Screenwriter is set inside a sanitarium. D'Ambrosio has just about finished his first novel and is currently doing time in Iowa.

Kenny Shopsin is an artist.

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:16:53 -0800

From Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin. I am struck at Shopsin's creative process, how he let-it-all-rides on inquisitiveness and dare. Once you get in the right zone, the shackles disappear. The best poems are written fast in off-the-cuff flippancy, as if you hit upon the right moment to construct. Shopsin works along such a line in the culinary artform.

Meat in time of desperation.

Sun, 5 Oct 2008 21:17:24 -0800

From Ask The Dust by John Fante:

How things are made.

Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:42:00 -0800

The Mathematics of Poetry

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:49:38 -0800

From Anne Carson's introduction to "it" by Inger Christensen:

Barney's Version

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:42:00 -0800

From Mordecai Richler's masterpiece, Barney's Version -

Day of The Locust

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:30:15 -0800

Day of The Locust is regarded as one of the greatest Hollywood novels.

Good Blonde

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:28:55 -0800

Kerouac's Good Blonde, where he hitchhikes a ride from, you guessed it, a "good blonde". From 1965 Playboy, with accompanying painting by Roy Schnackenberg.

Kenneth Koch

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:49:00 -0800

From the New York School.

The Weather Underground

Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:11:00 -0800

Prairie Fire: Political Statement of the Weather Underground. Interesting note regarding Prairie Fire.