#christopher higgs

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Old Blue Eyes

by Christopher Higgs

NANPA’s 2024 Showcase - North American Nature Photography Association

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Language reminds us of our boundaries, not our borders.

— “…by writing we lose control…”, Christopher Higgs

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January 27th, 2014

Christopher Higgs interviews the editors of Catch Up over at HTMLGiant. 

[forgottengenres]

“I began writing this story by subverting the dominant discourse, but that did not last long. My story decided to assert its independence. I tried to rupture all vestiges of received form, but my story fought back. It wanted to go live with its Aristotelian parents. "I'm sick of being experimented on," it said. "What's so lame about catharsis?" Then it stormed out of the barber shop, mid trim, and fumbled down the sidewalk, weak from surgery, thin in description, gaping with holes, and absolutely riddled with bruised sentences. I watched it with binoculars, but decided not to chase after it. I never liked that story anyway.”

Christopher Higgs

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Incredible Christopher Higgs review of Cassandra Troyan's Throne of Blood (Solar Luxuriance, 2013) over at The Collagist: "What this book does better than most other books is engage with this experience we call living in a way that never reduces or summarizes, but instead makes more complex, elaborate, and intense. So, while I am reading it in the cold, shallow bathtub after a lightning storm, as I am typing these words in my florescent-lit office cubicle amidst the rousing conversation of medievalist scholars debating the relative merits of Henry VI's attack strategy during The War of the Roses, I feel compelled to go outside and dig a hole the size of a lunchbox in the front yard of the nearest sorority—the Chi Omega house, where in the early morning hours of January 15, 1978, Ted Bundy entered the bedroom of 20-year-old Lisa Levy and beat her unconscious, strangled her, tore one of her nipples, bit deeply into her left buttock, and sexually assaulted her with a hair mist bottle—in order to bury Throne of Blood without watering it."

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Young Critic Engaging with John Lavery’s “Portrait of Anna Pavlova” (1911)

(via Christopher Higgs, "How To Be A Critic (pt. 2)")

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I am pleased to announce that my new book, ONE, a collaboration with Blake Butler & Vanessa Place, is now available from Roof Books.  It's an experiment wherein I asked Blake to write the exterior perspective and Vanessa to write the interior perspective; then I assembled the two into ONE. Here's the jacket copy:

From the room inside the room, from the house inside the house, memories of a one-legged father and various acts of jurisprudence haunt the mysterious creature who writhes in somatic isolation from one waking nightmare to another. Here, two writers have produced textual bodies: one speaking for the interior and the other describing the exterior, while a third writer has assembled these two bodies into a single grotesque symphony of chimerical language. A hitherto unprecedented collaborative experiment, ONE defies categorization and heralds a new approach to exploring the boundaries of authorship and narrative.

And here's the blurb from Dennis Cooper:

In theory or even usually, three contemporary majors like Butler, Higgs, and Place interlocking works inside a single book would leave users fannishly dissecting more than reading, but One is something way else.  It's as sublimely integrated as any single-minded novel I can think of, but with this absolutely crazy mega-wattage. I.e., not since Ashbery and Schuyler co-made A Nest of Ninnies, but, whoa, even more so.

You can get it on Amazon. At Barnes and Noble. At Books-A-Million. Or through Small Press Distribution. If you are interested in reviewing it or conducting an interview, please email me!