HTMLGIANT is an online literature blog founded by American author Blake Butler. It presents itself as a "literature blog that isn't always about literature"

Sincerity/Alt-Lit' | HTMLGIANT". htmlgiant.com. Retrieved 2022-11-30. "What we talk about when we talk about the New Sincerity, part 1 | HTMLGIANT". htmlgiant.com. Retrieved

1979) is an American writer and editor. He edits the literature blog HTMLGIANT, and two journals: Lamination Colony, and concurrently with co-editor

2017. "Roxane Gay". Amazon. Retrieved July 18, 2014. "Roxane Gay – HTMLGIANT". htmlgiant.com. "Posts by Roxane Gay". Rumpus Magazine. Retrieved July 18,

reviewed favorably in The Believer, American Book Review, and The Rumpus. At HTMLGiant, Kyle Minor wrote that "Matt Bell has built a national reputation on his

Or maybe not myself. I think I mean what to do with body after I die, because maybe myself will be off somewhere else at that point. (Fingers crossed.) B…

ABOUT HTMLGIANT HTMLGIANT started in 2008. It’s a literature blog that isn’t always about literature. View expressed by contributors are their own. Posts…

On Ryan Manning Anyone who has surfed blog comment trails throughout the ‘literary online community’ will most likely have encountered Ryan Manning’s eer…

EVER: A Review The narrative constraints of Ever – presumably a woman inside a room; that’s it – is a precarious way to write a novella. Without characte…

John Gardner Bitch Slap I planned to keep quiet about this, maybe ignore it until some other posts pushed it into the archives, but after a few days, I s…

What’s Up, Rumpus? “A Faithful Grope in the Dark” – Joshua Mohr writes about trying–and failing–to place his first novel, Some Things that Meant the Worl…

October 2014 I gladly add my voice to the chorus of Goodnight and Thank You to Gene and to Blake. Thank you, for creating this bizarre little hole that g…

Novel naming contest *Update* Contest is over, pr won. The answers are Under the Volcano, Lord of the Flies, On the Road, As I Lay Dying, and A Farewell …

eShame Contest Winners There’s this great scene in Basquiat in which Basquiat (portrayed with real beauty by Jeffrey Wright) and Andy Warhol (who is best…

Novel Naming Contest No. 2 This picture describes 3 novels written by black authors. Keep in mind I’m using ‘black’ and not ‘African-American’ or ‘Africa…

Power Quote: M.L. Rosenthal Modern poetry as a whole tends to be tragic in its assumption that we are at a cultural dead end, in which myriad values at c…

Cover to Cover: NOON, Part 3 It’s been a long couple of weeks for me, slogging toward the end of my teaching semester. I’m coming to you live right now f…

Win Diana George’s DISCIPLINES I have an extra copy of Diana George’s DISCIPLINES, an amazing fiction chapbook from Noemi Press, who continues to do more…

Power Quote from Lisa Yuskavage I don’ t think there is an uninteresting person alive. It’s just that not everyone has access to themselves, to the full …

Win Nick Antosca’s MIDNIGHT PICNIC You may have heard by now that Nick Antosca‘s brightly anticipated new novel, MIDNIGHT PICNIC, is coming out this mont…

The History of a Lake Never Drowns Julia Cohen is a frequent target of admiration on this here blog, and now we’ve got her in our sights again. She has a…

Winner of Diana George’s DISCPLINES From among them (though there were quite a few that were really smart and interesting), Chris Higgs’s response to Pet…

A reader responds: Keith Nathan Brown Frequent reader ‘keith n b’ offers a thoughtful response to a recent post quoting Proust, which induced the comment…

YOU’RE NOT ALONE– IF YOU WIN THIS CONTEST Look alive, kids. This sweet mother is coming to NYC on May 30th, and we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away.…

The classical education I never had: Hekabe After reading Herakles, a play in which a man-god returns from hell only to savagely, accidentally kill his b…

Hot stuff there, Jennifer. Now all you have to do is get in touch with me so I can figure out how to get you your pair of tickets. Leave me your email on…

Ryan Call’s book trade thing: it really works! “No matter how good of a tan you get, there’s always someone around with a better one. One year, me and Tu…

drunk post: does anyone want Logan’s Run on DVD? So it’s been an uneventful Memorial Weekend Sunday of drinking and doing laundry here in Houston. I final…

Play eShame and Win or Lose *UPDATED* **UPDATED** Do you know that game called “Shame,” in which participants name a book they haven’t read and if everyb…

Honorable mentions winners can email me (brothercyst@gmail.com) their mailing address and whether they would like to receive a copy of FIRES or a randoml…

Joyce Carol Oates thinks you should get a life, is on suicide watch Random Undergrad Question-Asker: I was wondering what you think of blogging? Joyce Ca…

Review of Matthew Simmons’s ‘A Jello Horse’ (by Christopher Higgs) The appendages = the memories (of what it’s like to be a kid & of previous dating expe…

Dispatches from Captain Maximus (guest posted by Michael Bible) Michael Bible, a former student of Barry Hannah (and wearing one of the best names around…

Power Quote: Special T.O.C. edition, for keith n.b., with double special bonus shout-out to Paul Violi In a comment on yesterday’s “Power Quote” post, on…

Mean Monday: I Am A Pussy But I Don’t Like Everything I Read I am too much of a pussy to post really truly mean shit. In fact, recently I profusely apolo…

FIRST SAMUEL 5 1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. 6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ash…

haha! I reeeeallly don’t recommend you do that, Ryan. It’s hard to impress me with outrageousness, but this man did it. I had my jaw dropped to the groun…

HTMLGIANT | Dinty W. Moore on Memoir HTMLGiant, the literary blog with the liveliest comment section around, has a new feature where folks are asked to r…

HTMLGIANT is an online literature blog founded by American author Blake Butler. It presents itself as a "literature blog that isn't always about literature"

Or maybe not myself. I think I mean what to do with body after I die, because maybe myself will be off somewhere else at that point. (Fingers crossed.) Bu…

Sincerity/Alt-Lit' | HTMLGIANT". htmlgiant.com. Retrieved 2022-11-30. "What we talk about when we talk about the New Sincerity, part 1 | HTMLGIANT". htmlgiant.com. Retrieved

1979) is an American writer and editor. He edits the literature blog HTMLGIANT, and two journals: Lamination Colony, and concurrently with co-editor

2017. "Roxane Gay". Amazon. Retrieved July 18, 2014. "Roxane Gay – HTMLGIANT". htmlgiant.com. "Posts by Roxane Gay". Rumpus Magazine. Retrieved July 18,

reviewed favorably in The Believer, American Book Review, and The Rumpus. At HTMLGiant, Kyle Minor wrote that "Matt Bell has built a national reputation on his

Or maybe not myself. I think I mean what to do with body after I die, because maybe myself will be off somewhere else at that point. (Fingers crossed.) B…

ABOUT HTMLGIANT HTMLGIANT started in 2008. It’s a literature blog that isn’t always about literature. View expressed by contributors are their own. Posts…

On Ryan Manning Anyone who has surfed blog comment trails throughout the ‘literary online community’ will most likely have encountered Ryan Manning’s eer…

EVER: A Review The narrative constraints of Ever – presumably a woman inside a room; that’s it – is a precarious way to write a novella. Without characte…

John Gardner Bitch Slap I planned to keep quiet about this, maybe ignore it until some other posts pushed it into the archives, but after a few days, I s…

What’s Up, Rumpus? “A Faithful Grope in the Dark” – Joshua Mohr writes about trying–and failing–to place his first novel, Some Things that Meant the Worl…

October 2014 I gladly add my voice to the chorus of Goodnight and Thank You to Gene and to Blake. Thank you, for creating this bizarre little hole that g…

Novel naming contest *Update* Contest is over, pr won. The answers are Under the Volcano, Lord of the Flies, On the Road, As I Lay Dying, and A Farewell …

eShame Contest Winners There’s this great scene in Basquiat in which Basquiat (portrayed with real beauty by Jeffrey Wright) and Andy Warhol (who is best…

Novel Naming Contest No. 2 This picture describes 3 novels written by black authors. Keep in mind I’m using ‘black’ and not ‘African-American’ or ‘Africa…

Power Quote: M.L. Rosenthal Modern poetry as a whole tends to be tragic in its assumption that we are at a cultural dead end, in which myriad values at c…

Cover to Cover: NOON, Part 3 It’s been a long couple of weeks for me, slogging toward the end of my teaching semester. I’m coming to you live right now f…

Win Diana George’s DISCIPLINES I have an extra copy of Diana George’s DISCIPLINES, an amazing fiction chapbook from Noemi Press, who continues to do more…

Power Quote from Lisa Yuskavage I don’ t think there is an uninteresting person alive. It’s just that not everyone has access to themselves, to the full …

Win Nick Antosca’s MIDNIGHT PICNIC You may have heard by now that Nick Antosca‘s brightly anticipated new novel, MIDNIGHT PICNIC, is coming out this mont…

The History of a Lake Never Drowns Julia Cohen is a frequent target of admiration on this here blog, and now we’ve got her in our sights again. She has a…

Winner of Diana George’s DISCPLINES From among them (though there were quite a few that were really smart and interesting), Chris Higgs’s response to Pet…

A reader responds: Keith Nathan Brown Frequent reader ‘keith n b’ offers a thoughtful response to a recent post quoting Proust, which induced the comment…

YOU’RE NOT ALONE– IF YOU WIN THIS CONTEST Look alive, kids. This sweet mother is coming to NYC on May 30th, and we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away.…

The classical education I never had: Hekabe After reading Herakles, a play in which a man-god returns from hell only to savagely, accidentally kill his b…

Hot stuff there, Jennifer. Now all you have to do is get in touch with me so I can figure out how to get you your pair of tickets. Leave me your email on…

Ryan Call’s book trade thing: it really works! “No matter how good of a tan you get, there’s always someone around with a better one. One year, me and Tu…

drunk post: does anyone want Logan’s Run on DVD? So it’s been an uneventful Memorial Weekend Sunday of drinking and doing laundry here in Houston. I final…

Play eShame and Win or Lose *UPDATED* **UPDATED** Do you know that game called “Shame,” in which participants name a book they haven’t read and if everyb…

Honorable mentions winners can email me (brothercyst@gmail.com) their mailing address and whether they would like to receive a copy of FIRES or a randoml…

Joyce Carol Oates thinks you should get a life, is on suicide watch Random Undergrad Question-Asker: I was wondering what you think of blogging? Joyce Ca…

Review of Matthew Simmons’s ‘A Jello Horse’ (by Christopher Higgs) The appendages = the memories (of what it’s like to be a kid & of previous dating expe…

Dispatches from Captain Maximus (guest posted by Michael Bible) Michael Bible, a former student of Barry Hannah (and wearing one of the best names around…

Power Quote: Special T.O.C. edition, for keith n.b., with double special bonus shout-out to Paul Violi In a comment on yesterday’s “Power Quote” post, on…

Mean Monday: I Am A Pussy But I Don’t Like Everything I Read I am too much of a pussy to post really truly mean shit. In fact, recently I profusely apolo…

FIRST SAMUEL 5 1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. 6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ash…

haha! I reeeeallly don’t recommend you do that, Ryan. It’s hard to impress me with outrageousness, but this man did it. I had my jaw dropped to the groun…

HTMLGIANT | Dinty W. Moore on Memoir HTMLGiant, the literary blog with the liveliest comment section around, has a new feature where folks are asked to r…