Our friends at Gigantic are hard at work on a science flash fiction anthology that will include work by Jonathan Lethem, Ed Park, J. Robert Lennon, Lynne Tillman, Matt Bell, and many others. We wholeheartedly endorse their attempt to do this by starting a Kickstarter and making the video/possible piece of conceptual art below.
Write What Scares You: A Conversation with James Yeh & Lincoln Michel of Gigantic Magazine
Tomorrow night at 8:30, upstart lit journal Gigantic celebrates the release of its fourth issue at Public Assembly in Williamsburg. This esteemed affair will ring in the revelry with readings from Michael Kimball, Joe Wenderoth, Kimberly King Parsons, and Robert Lopez, and music from Jonas Reinhardt and Lingerie. Be there or be oblong. Gigantic’s enormously busy and talented editors James Yeh and Lincoln Michel sat down to answer a few queries about their new issue, the trials of running a […]
Sweet Gigantic Sack
I spent 40 bucks on a medium sized tote bag from L.L. Bean, monogrammed with my initials on it: For about ten bucks less, I could have gotten the next four issues of Gigantic and a really awesome tote bag. You know who failed? I failed. Don’t be like me. (this bro is not me.)
Vol. 1 Brooklyn Presents: The Bundles Listening Party
Jeffrey Lewis and Kimya Dawson in a band together? Yes! Believe the hype! The two teamed up with some pals and became The Bundles, and they’re are putting their debut album out one of our favorite labels, K Records! Friday, Vol. 1 Brooklyn will be previewing the album at Bar Matchless at 9PM for you, the indie-folk-pop loving masses. The night gets a little sweeter after the listening party when Jason Diamond teams up with Gigantic Magazine founding editor James […]
Happening: Greatest Three-Minute Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Ever
Thursday, Feb. 11th Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Gigantic Present: Greatest Three-Minute Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Ever You know, Brooklyn is a kind of alright place for music and books. But where can you find the two together? At the Greatest Three-Minute Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Ever, that’s where. Greatest Three-Minute Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Ever is where writers, rockers and raconteurs are united at last, relating three-minute stories of youth, sex, booze, noise and a little thing called rock ‘n’ […]
Gigantic Magazine is Okay With The U.S.A.
This excites me. Dear readers, Gigantic #2, the America issue, is coming out next month! We promise it will have more screams than a bald eagle, be more stunning than purple mountains majesty and taste almost as fresh as mom’s apple pie. Some of the literary legends whose names will be engraved on the steep cliff of its pages include Sam Lipsyte, Lydia Millet, Clancy Martin, Margo Jefferson, Ken Sparling, Deb Olin Unferth and Adrian Tomine. In anticipation of issue […]
James Yeh Drank the Kool-Aid, but Redemption Maybe at Hand
James Yeh: Founding Editor of Gigantic Magazine, silky smooth dancer, and guy who puts Vecktamist by Grizzly Bear at the top of his best of list over at Big Other. Okay, James, I love you man, but how could you put that snoozer above things like Sam Lipsyte’s story in Harpers, the Real Estate album on Woodsist, and Bolaño’s The Skating Rink? Fair warning, I’m tracking you to the Literary Death Match that you are scheduled to take part in […]
Bites: The Shining pt. 2, Lethem in Manhattan, Rimbaud, Turkey Holocaust Poetry, Grass Widow on WFMU, and More
Danny, he said, was certain to have been left “with a lifetime’s worth of emotional scars” after his experiences at the Overlook, where his father was possessed by the hotel, tried to kill him and his mother and eventually died. I’m going to guess two things. The first being Stephen King isn’t going to name the sequel to The Shining, The Shining 2: Danny Torrance Boogaloo. Secondly, I’m guessing he’s not going to get Stanley Kubrick to do the film […]