Why I don't want to fuck the semicolon
Here.I don’t want to fuck the semicolon. I like it when with language you can do things that everybody tells you you shouldn’t do. I like it when you use words or punctuation that everybody tells you you shouldn’t use. Ultimately, the problem is to make things work, of course. I find idiosyncrasies interesting, but always disagreeable. I would love to read a story with only semicolons, for example. I have a special fondness for the parenthesis, hated by most people. There is a great book, The Watcher (La giornata di uno scrutatore, 1963) by Italo Calvino, in which parentheses are used constan
Big Other
A few days ago I was asked to contribute to Big Other, a new online forum discussing art, literature, music. The other contributors are: Leni Zumas, John Dermot Woods, Sean Lovelace, Michael Leong, Jac Jemc, Christopher Higgs, Greg Gerke, Molly Gaudry, Kim Chinquee, Ryan W. Bradley, John Madera. Threads already include The Flaming Lips, the semicolon, Nabokov, Poe, Edward Dahlberg, National Book Awards Nominees, Shakespeare's Sonnets in Morse Code, The Rose Metal Press Contest, and we're just getting started. Read my first post here.