Over at arts blog Big Other, they're gathering together a reading group for Flann O'Brien's great comic masterpiece At Swim-Two-Birds, to be consumed at an approachable-yet-respectable clip of 100 pages/week. See AD Jameson's post about reading guides for the complex-ish modernist book. But don't be scared! To fully enjoy O'Brien, you really needn't be equipped with anything more than a good sense of humor and a love for language. I highly encourage people to read along, or at least check in from time to time to listen in during the ensuing book banter.
TAGS: At Swim-Two-Birds, Big Other, Flann O'Brien
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SHYA SCANLON, Fiction Editor for The Nervous Breakdown, is recording all 60 poems from his collection, In This Alone Impulse, and posting the videos to his YouTube channel. He encourages you to check them out, or subscribe for updates.
Scanlon's work has appeared in the Mississippi Review, Literary Review, New York Quarterly, Guernica Magazine, Opium Magazine, and others. His book of prose poetry, In This Alone Impulse, was published by Noemi Press in January, 2010. In 2009, his novel Forecast was serialized online across 42 journals and literary blogs as part of the Forecast 42 Project. Forecast will be published by Flatmancrooked in spring, 2010. He received his MFA from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction.
Please visit him at www.shyascanlon.com. |
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