Film review
The Stepfather contains John Locke (with full-frontal and backal nudity), a deeply troubled-yet-prescient teen girl (more frontal and backal nudity), not one but TWO shower scenes, wigs and other late 80s hairpieces, an awesome rusted-out muscle car, some of the worst expository dialogue evah, a highly fanciful plot based on an utterly whack true crime, and a damn fun (and bloody with knives and a classic attic gag) climax. Also it gave me nightmares.

Or you can opt to see the 2009 REMAKE. Because that's how the 21st Century rolls.

Labels: film studies, films so nice they made them twice, Hollywood done runned outta idears

  3:22 PM Comment |

  Friday night with Jennifer L. Knox, et al.


To come one, come all ...

And join LIT Magazine & Housing Works Bookstore Cafe for an evening of
literary refreshment, complete with prose, poetry, and a dandy selection
of snacks and beverages.

Your invitation is cordially attached. (Please note: The date of the
event is FRIDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2010 and begins at 7 PM sharp.)

Celebrate: The LIT 17 Launch Party!
Time: Friday February 5, 2010 at 7 PM
Place: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Address: 126 Crosby Street in SoHo.

With readings by Sasha Feltcher, Phillip Gardner, Jennifer L. Knox, and
Anne Ray.

Sasha Fletcher's novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS
WILL FILL THE STREETS AND WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE
UPSTAIRS IN THE SKY is due out from ml press in December in the year
2010. He is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Columbia University in the
city of New York.
http://anicecoldcocacola.blogspot.com]

A three-time winner of The South Carolina Fiction Project, Phillip
Gardner has recently appeared in The North American Review, Hayden’s
Ferry Review, Potomac Review, and New Delta Review. He is the author of
Someone To Crawl Back To, a collection of short stories. Two new
collections, That Place Love Built and Freaks Out are forthcoming.

Jennifer L. Knox’s new book, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, is
forthcoming from Bloof in fall 2010. Her first two books of poems, Drunk
by Noon and A Gringo Like Me are also available from Bloof Books. Her
work has appeared three times in the Best American Poetry series, as
well as in the anthologies Best American Erotic Poems and Great American
Prose Poems: From Poe to Present.

Anne Ray was raised in suburban Maryland and has been an English
teacher, a waitress, a gardener, and a fish monger. She attended the
Brooklyn College MFA Program and the undergraduate writing program at
Carnegie Mellon University. Her fiction appeared in Brooklyn Review, and
her nonfiction has appeared in Washington City Paper and Baltimore City
Paper. She lives in Brooklyn.

Sincerely,
The Editors

Labels: bloof, LIT, recommended

  8:53 AM Comment |

  NEW at Delirious Hem

Delirious Hem announces: This is What a Feminist [Poet] Looks Like #2, where each day this week you will find new responses.

Featuring:
Monday February 1: Ching-In Chen, Jennifer Bartlett, & Kate Durbin
Tuesday February 2: Juliet Cook & Kate Schapira
Wednesday February 3: Kirsten Kaschock & Michele Battiste
Thursday February 4: Michelle Detorie & Stephanie Strickland
Friday February 5: T.A. Noonan & Theodora Danylevich

There are likely as many strains and modes of feminist poetics as there are of feminism, but in reviews, discussions, and even our own manifestos, we often fall into shorthand that fails to explore this valuable friction, our own variations. I'd longed for unpacking, and so issued this open-ended call:

This is What a Feminist [Poet] Looks Like: what branch of feminism, model of feminist poetics, feminist icon, or etc. informs your poetry? Or, from which of these does your poetry diverge? Are there particular feminist tactics you employ? Do you consider yourself a feminist in many ways, but don't particularly involve it in the poetry? Feel free to take liberties with the questions! Short, long, essay, manifesto, whatever appeals to you!

Our first forum was full of such provocative, funny, thoughtful, revealing, and kick-ass work, I thought we'd better run another. We hope you'll enjoy and join in the conversation. If you post on your own blog in response to this conversation, please drop a note in the comments! --Danielle Pafunda

Labels: delirious hem, Pussipo, recommended

  11:59 AM Comment |