Gigantic Summer Internships |
5/7/13 |
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Gigantic International Reading at PEN World Voices Festival |
5/3/13 |
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GIGANTIC #4: GIGANTIC EVERYTHING PREVIEW |
2/1/13 |
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| A preview of the prose, poetry, art, and dialogues in Gigantic #4: Gigantic Everything. |
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DIDN’T THEY NOTICE THE GARBAGE BAGS?: A SHORT INTERVIEW WITH JULIE HECHT by James Yeh |
from print issue 4 |
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| JULIE HECHT: In fact, this is making me sick to think about it. I don't think I should try to remember it at this time. |
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GOD THE MIDGET by Etgar Keret |
from print issue 4 |
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| Even the smartass guests who kept saying things like "Big deal, I can do that too," or "I once saw an Armenian in Vegas who could run rings around Him" had to admit that He was something special. |
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GIGANTIC EVERYTHING ONE-LINE PROSE AND SEIZURE STATE PREVIEW |
2/1/13 |
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| One random line from every author in the issue. |
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GIGANTIC EVERYTHING ONE-LINE DIALOGUES PREVIEW |
2/1/13 |
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| One random line from every dialogue in the issue. |
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Gigantic #4: Gigantic Everything |
2012 |
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| Info and contributors for Gigantic Issue Four: Gigantic Everything. |
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Gigantic #3: Gigantic Indoors |
2011 |
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| Info and contributors for Gigantic Issue Three: Gigantic Indoors. |
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Gigantic #2: Gigantic America |
2010 |
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| Info and contributors for Gigantic Issue Two: Gigantic America. |
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Gigantic #1 |
2009 |
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| Info and contributors for Gigantic Issue One. |
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EXERCISES IN STYLE: NOTHING by Ben Marcus |
1/7/2013 |
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| Into nowhere came nothing, least of all a bus. |
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EXERCISES IN STYLE: SCIENCE FICTION by Raymond Queneau |
1/7/2013 |
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| A light-year later, I see him again – the Martian – doing some astro-helicoptering over near Sirius. |
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GIGANTIC EVERYTHING is (almost) here! |
12/05/12 |
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| Our newest print issue is (almost) here! |
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Gigantic Pushcart Nominations |
11/30/12 |
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| Congrats and thanks to Tony Duvert, Henry Hoke, Paul Legault, Iris Moulton, Michael Kimball, and Marguerite W. Sullivan! |
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GIGANTIC WORK ONLINE ISSUE |
11/18/12 |
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| See our November online issue. |
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BUT WE DON’T DO IT FOR THE MONEY, DO WE?: AN INTERVIEW WITH KARL TARO GREENFELD by Drew Nellins |
11/18/12 |
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| GIGANTIC: I'm starting to think I should be getting paid for doing this interview.
KARL: No, you're wrong. I should be getting paid for this. Because I am writing my answers instead of speaking them! |
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NOMINATION by Anthony Tognazzini |
11/18/12 |
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| Through you I have trumped the urge to find fault, to qualify and cast doubt. You have, in short, defeated critique. |
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TO MAKE A FILM BASED ON THE INCIDENT by Nalini Abhiraman |
11/18/12 |
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| Eight men and two women could support the theory of a small avalanche, or "a compelling unknown force." |
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US OTHER KIDS by Jesse Eagle |
11/18/12 |
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| We let the other kids make calls on our cell phones, calls to disconnected lines. |
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TRAINING AND CONDITIONING by K. Abigail Walthausen |
11/18/12 |
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| The drugs he gave to the Lady Lock-Keepers were not drugs, only vitamins, but the confusion was always that they were snorted. |
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CONTRACT FOR A SMALL DISH OF SEEDS by Rich Ives |
11/18/12 |
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| Although the government does not approve of a man who is begging in the street, his research might be used for subtle improvements in the enduring strains of the increasingly numerous transient flowers which now line our walkways and boulevards. |
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FORTIES FLICK 2 by Paul Legault |
11/18/12 |
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| What was the big deal anyway?/ His disguise was the black hole from which he emerged:/ Volcanic, somewhat trivial, plagued by vision. |
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from BARREN WILDERNESS by Amy Lawless |
11/18/12 |
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| when the monsoon comes/ a black buck jumps like a flea on a hound/ pups engage in light oral play |
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MY BROTHER THE ASTRONAUT by Daniel Bailey |
11/18/12 |
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| you are a still-living flounder growing old in my mind's film |
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Art by Sherri Hay |
11/18/2012 |
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| art for GIGANTIC WORK ONLINE ISSUE |
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Gigantic Everything Launch Party at Public Assembly |
12/15/12 |
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| Featuring readings by Michael Kimball, Kimberly King Parsons, and Robert Lopez; performances by Jonas Reinhardt and Lingerie; and more. |
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WRITERS READING OTHER WRITERS (presented by Gigantic and The Believer) |
9/15/12 |
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| Gigantic and The Believer present Writers Reading Other Writers, a night of literary bridges, featuring original and "cover" readings. A part of Lit Crawl NYC 2012. |
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Art by Greg Allen-Müller |
7/6/12 |
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| art for GIGANTIC HEAT ONLINE ISSUE |
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GIGANTIC HEAT ONLINE ISSUE |
7/6/12 |
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GIGANTIC CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS |
7/6/12 |
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| A call for submissions for Gigantic print issue #4: Gigantic Everything |
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MASS KILLERS HAVE THE SAME MOTTO, DON’T THEY?: AN INTERVIEW WITH GORDON LISH by Chloé Cooper Jones |
from print issue 3 |
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GORDON LISH: The question is dumb because…are you recording me?
GIGANTIC: Yes. |
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ANYTIME, SWEET by Robert Lopez |
7/6/12 |
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| No one saw what we were doing and I’m sure no one would’ve minded, no one would’ve tried to help. |
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WHAT HAPPENED TO ME IN NEW YORK by May Marcel |
7/6/12 |
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| Everyone in the office was Finnish, or what I thought to be Finnish. |
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BODY AND SOUL by Marguerite W. Sullivan |
7/6/12 |
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| Don't generalize, people tell you, but how are you going to see what's coming without a few basic visual clues? |
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THE POLISH DOPPELGANGER by Greg Kellerman |
7/6/12 |
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| He was drunk though, and the punch was more of an open-palmed high-five to the temple. |
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PLEASE HANDLE YOUR CHILDREN by Leigh Stein |
7/6/12 |
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| Let us send ghosts/ to act out our, how do you say, erotic dance? |
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GAY GUY by Ben Fama |
7/6/12 |
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| I've got big oil in my inbox |
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NO RESULT IS SO FALSE BUT THAT IT CAN BE MADE TO APPEAR VALID by Emily Kendal Frey |
7/6/12 |
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| door opening/ into another door and/ a telescope beyond that. |
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BLVD by Andrew Durbin |
7/6/12 |
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| like "I was a boy, not a surrealist" |
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GIGANTIC BODIES ONLINE ISSUE |
10/20/11 |
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AN EXQUISITE CORPSE by Dan Bevacqua, Anelise Chen, Mitchell S. Jackson, and Lynne Tillman |
10/20/11 |
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| Each participating writer had 24 hours to write a story in 700 words or less, the last sentence of which was passed to the next writer as a prompt. |
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LOOPING DEBILITY CRISIS: a conversation between Gary Lutz, Mary Caponegro, and Tim Horvath |
10/20/11 |
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| This conversation took place on July 14, 2011, at Soda Bar in Brooklyn, New York, as part of The Soda Series, a bi-monthly conversation between writers, hosted by writers Greg Gerke and John Dermot Woods. |
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FABLE by Lena Bertone |
10/20/11 |
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| Every one of them had a horse face! |
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BUCKETS by Brian Kubarycz |
10/20/11 |
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| We tried to step through them without working further wounds, step over wet piles washed or crawled into handdrifts, fingers still reaching, after what it was not clear. |
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SHEET MUSIC by Matt Dennison |
10/20/11 |
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| All Rights Reserved |
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THE SMALLEST WOMAN by Daniel Borzutzky |
10/20/11 |
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| My love, I am sorry. I did not think of you at this moment for all I could think of was my body. |
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ARMOUR BRAND DESICCATED THYROID BOTTLE (C. 1900) by James McGirk |
10/20/11 |
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| Simple packaging belies the potency of its contents and the violence of its extraction. |
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GIGANTIC EXQUISITE CORPSE: Four Days, Four Writers, Four New Works 9/10/11 |
9/10/11 |
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GIGANTIC INDOORS PREVIEW |
5/11/11 |
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| A preview of the fantastic prose, poetry, art, and dialogues in Gigantic #3: Gigantic Indoors. Plus information on our May 20th launch party. |
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GIGANTIC INDOORS ONE-LINE PROSE PREVIEW |
5/11/11 |
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| One random line from every author in the issue. |
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GIGANTIC INDOORS DIALOGUES PREVIEW |
5/11/11 |
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| One question and one answer from the dialogues in the issue. |
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GIGANTIC INDOORS LAUNCH PARTY AT 285 KENT 5/20/11 |
5/11/11 |
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| Come out to the Gigantic Indoors launch party on May 20th in NYC! |
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GIGANTIC INDOORS ONE-LINE ART PREVIEW |
5/11/11 |
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| One line of image from each of the artists in the issue |
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Gigantic in Wigleaf's Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2011! |
5/9/11 |
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| Congrats to Saša Stanišic! |
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GIGANTIC EDITORS MICROREADING: ON BEHALF OF ISSUE #3: GIGANTIC INDOORS 5/7/11 |
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Lauren Spohrer to Represent Gigantic in Piethos Competition in Brooklyn 3/18/11 |
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EATINGS AND READINGS: A Gigantic Taco Happening and Short Prose Party 12/10/10 |
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READING DIXIE: AN INTERVIEW WITH AMY HEMPEL by Nathan C. Martin |
8/23/10 |
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| "I'm sickened, furious, and anguished."
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UNTIL I FIND IT (Fourth Installment) by Leni Zumas and Luca Dipierro |
8/23/10 |
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| Her visitor is the Earth's smallest man. |
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GAME SHOW by Ashley Farmer |
8/23/10 |
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| I guessed the correct prices for batteries, surgeries, expressionless art collections. |
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BEFORE THE HITCHCOCK RESIDENCE (LOS ANGELES, CA) by John Dermot Woods |
8/23/10 |
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| They would each watch the other’s complete oeuvre and then meet over crabs and canned beer to discuss their films at length. |
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SWEET HOME NEW YORK: A READING WITH GIGANTIC AND OPEN CITY 9/11/10 |
8/23/10 |
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| Subways, taxis, tall buildings, people on sidewalks, in trains, in cars, in cabs, on bikes, on stoops, in the street, the noise, energy, inspiration, and aggravation.
What more could be said about New York? Lots. |
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Gigantic Indoors print issue #3 |
06/14/10 |
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| Mudrooms, living rooms, interior decorators, people trapped in small boxes, animals let loose in large auditoriums, the insides of buildings, the insides of brains and souls, blueprints, agoraphobia, cuckoo clocks, and any and all other indoor situations both real and imagined are humbly requested. |
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UNTIL I FIND IT (Third Installment) by Leni Zumas and Luca Dipierro |
06/14/10 |
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| The skies black with birds' mouths. |
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ARRIVAL OF THE BEES by Jen Gann |
06/14/10 |
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| Sometimes we would sprinkle dirt atop it and hum a little song, maybe to bless it, maybe to distract ourselves. |
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RATHER THAN THESE by Callista Buchen |
06/14/10 |
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| Rather than a baseball or a wallet, a fist going through drywall... |
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CALL ME TENDER by Brooks Sterritt |
06/14/10 |
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| But this was different—it was like wrestling a man, only stronger and more flexible. |
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GIBBY HAYNES VS. JOE WENDEROTH: A TALK |
05/09/10 |
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| Clown comes undressed! Clown is terror. Clown is complete and cannot be altered. Clown is indivisible. |
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UNTIL I FIND IT (Second Installment) by Leni Zumas and Luca Dipierro |
05/09/10 |
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| I said, Bird who took these heads? |
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BLACKBIRD by Erik Morsink |
05/09/10 |
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| They saw crows, doves, a little bird with a yellow tee-shirt... |
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JESSE by M. Callen |
05/09/10 |
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| Jesse making crow calls, balanced atop a tent spike. Jesse lying on the roof of the chicken coop, his arm hanging through the skylight. |
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THE OCEAN ON TELEVISION by Mike Young |
05/09/10 |
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| These days, screens show just live feeds of shoreline. You like the Pacific mostly, the Arctic when you're drunk. |
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GIGANTIC ONLINE APRIL 2010 |
04/01/10 |
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| Sam Lipsyte interviewed, a new illustrated book series from Leni Zumas and Luca Dipierro, and five more American biographies. |
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BRING IT UP TO A NICE LEVEL: SAM LIPSYTE INTERVIEWED by Lincoln Michel |
Print Issue 2 |
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| I've found that the only time that it's ever really worked, come back in an interesting way in fiction, is when I've forgotten. |
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UNTIL I FIND IT (First Installment) by Leni Zumas and Luca Dipierro |
04/01/10 |
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| We were "matrimonially distributed" by Ursuline nuns among the hungry men of the new world. |
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AMERICAN BIOGRAPHIES, ILLUSTRATED by John Dermot Woods |
04/01/10 |
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| Five full elegant illustrations of the American biographies. |
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ENOLA GAY by John Minichillo |
04/01/10 |
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| In 1976 he piloted a restored B-29 in a Texas air show in a re-enactment that included a fake mushroom cloud. |
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FRAN ALEXANDER by Lauren Spohrer |
04/01/10 |
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| Who among us has not lain in bed, drunk, listening to rap? |
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JAMES BALDWIN by Claudette Bakhtiar |
04/01/10 |
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| This he will do from then on in any group, except when it is better to run, which, over time, begins to feel more natural. |
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POOR RICHARD NIXON’S ALMANACK by Dan Moreau |
04/01/10 |
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| Woodward & Bernstein is not a law firm. |
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THOMAS JEFFERSON by Franklin Winslow |
04/01/10 |
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| The missing in question varies depending on the certificate referenced. |
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GIGANTIC ISSUE 2 AND LAUNCH PARTY |
02/24/10 |
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| All the latest info on the new Gigantic and our Feb. 27th launch party. |
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GIGANTIC AMERICA ONE-SENTENCE PROSE PREVIEW |
02/24/10 |
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| One random sentence taken from each of our stories in Gigantic issue 2.
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A GIGANTIC ANNOUNCEMENT and a call for submissions |
01/27/10 |
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| In anticipation of Gigantic #2, the America issue, Uncle Gigantic wants YOU! to send us your biographies of famous Americans. |
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LET'S GO SLEEP JAPAN SOON by Saša Stanišić |
01/27/10 |
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| In Oxford, Mississippi, we slept in Faulkner's spacious garden and—believe me or not—on that day in Faulkner's garden, I forgot what the deal was with our sleeping. |
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THE MAN WITH TWO HEADS by Saša Stanišić |
01/27/10 |
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| Where are the beer crates? asks the left head, / the right head takes a look around. / The man's math skills are above average, / he whispers numbers in a way I would write songs for you |
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THE RED WAGON by Brian Hurley |
01/27/10 |
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| Before taking it out someone had to sweep a hand along its inner rail to pull apart any spiderwebs. |
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LITTLE BIG CREMASTER by Paul Willerton |
01/27/10 |
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| Gigantic is excited to present an exclusive preview of Paul Willerton's Little Big Cremaster 3 as well as the full Little Big Cremaster 2. Both videos are part of a series of works based on Matthew Barney's celebrated Cremaster Cycle. |
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Gigantic Mini-Monster Issue |
10/30/09 |
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| BLOOD APPEARS BLACK IN THE MOONLIGHT: Brian Evenson on the Imperatives of the Modern Horror Film by Adrian Van Young SKINWALKERS PAIN a video by Michael Nason and Brian Wilmont NOTHING HAS CHANGED ABOUT ME by Carmen Lau ONE DAY ALL YOUR TEETH WILL BE MINE by Sasha Fletcher WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME? a video by Max Juren and Jill Pangallo |
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BLOOD APPEARS BLACK IN THE MOONLIGHT: Brian Evenson on the Imperatives of the Modern Horror Film by Adrian Van Young |
10/30/09 |
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| Right. It's like watching Cube. How many times can you watch Cube? |
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SKINWALKERS PAIN a video by Michael Nason and Brian Wilmont |
10/30/09 |
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| Legendary beasts dwell in the ancient hills and valleys of New Mexico. |
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NOTHING HAS CHANGED ABOUT ME by Carmen Lau |
10/30/09 |
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| I’ve jammed bricks into the mouths of regular corpses. There’s no telling about anything. |
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ONE DAY ALL YOUR TEETH WILL BE MINE by Sasha Fletcher |
10/30/09 |
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| I will bury you up to your neck she said. I said But where. She said The Bathtub. |
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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME? a video by Max Juren and Jill Pangallo |
10/30/09 |
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| A remake of the pinnacle scene from the 1983 vampire flick The Hunger. |
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ON MEAT OVER MEAT: DINNER WITH GARY SHTEYNGART by James Yeh |
from print issue 1 |
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| Old meat. The Saul Bellow of meats. I don’t know. Sometimes I look at some of these writers, pictures of older writers, I just see all the meat that’s gone into them. Mordecai Richler, case in point. The man looked like a meat at the end of his life. I mean, you know, just put him on a grill and he’s served. |
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TALKING ABOUT THINKING: A FAIRLY LONG INTERVIEW WITH CLANCY MARTIN by Lincoln Michel |
9/21/09 |
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| I think if you are a writer and you want to immediately grab hold of your reader’s repressed consciousness, of her or his own terror and despair of suffering and the meaninglessness of life and the consciousness of their own failure and the inevitability of death, all you have to do: Yellow. Just bring in yellow and you’ve got it just like that. |
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THE SOFT DESTRUCTION OF A SINGLE ENTITY OVER A PERIOD OF TIME ONE MIGHT CALL, AGING by Michael James Martin |
9/21/09 |
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| She called me horrible. I knew I was. I knew she was, also, but her saying it and me not, it didn’t seem like she was all that horrible. I had a hammer in my hand. |
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CLEARING (UXO) by Thomas Doyle |
9/14/09 |
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| a sculpture in miniature from his Reclamations series. |
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FORECAST 42: CHAPTER 18 by Shya Scanlon |
9/14/09 |
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| Chapter 18 of Shya Scanlon's web-serialized novel. |
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WASP BUZZING AND WATER SHEDDING, JIMMY GROWING WET by J.A. Tyler |
9/14/09 |
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| On their porch, where Jimmy and his dad they sometimes sit and watch the sun go down, watch the night come on, there are pockets of open space like shallow pools, and Jimmy, sometimes it is his job to get out the hose and put his thumb on the end and force the wasps' nests from those places. |
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THREE STORIES by Shane Jones |
from print issue 1 |
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| Pants McDonovan always tried on every pair of pants in my store. He was looking for the perfect pair, but his waist was too big and his legs too short. Also, we lived in a village of giants. |
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