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"Big Bad Love is a tourdeforce!"
 for FREE invites to a reading and party for Big Bad Love in L.A. on Monday, February 25th
Big Bad Love, directed by Arliss Howard and based on Larry Brown's book of short stories by the same name, opens February 22nd, and stars Howard, Debra Winger and Rosanna Arquette. It's a film about rejection, obsession, one struggling writer, one ex-wife — and booze. A common theme throughout the book, the movie and the life of Larry Brown (much of his writing is semi-autobiographical) is the rejection letter: Brown has papered a room in his house with his collection of literary rejection letters, and many of his characters become obsessed with letters of rejection from publishers and magazines.
to read an excerpt from "Apprentice," one of the stories in Brown's book, in which a struggling writer of abominable fiction tries to get her "Hunchwoman of Cincinnati" published in Playboy and is rejected. And
rejected. And rejected . . .
The Apprentice by Larry Brown
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Rejection is a messy business — but perhaps it wouldn't be so messy if
we were all a little more business-like about the process. Employers,
publishers, universities and loan officers have perfected the art of the
rejection letter; what would the dating world be like if uninterested
paramours followed their example?
We asked you to set an example and compose a sample rejection letter.
Below you'll find the best of the bunch, published here on Nerve in the
hopes of inspiring would-be spurners out there to take a more honest,
no-nonsense approach to rejection. Use these letters as templates at your
own risk . . .
Grand Prize Winner:
a rejection letter/ poem
By Marley Magaziner
(with apologies to William Carlos Williams)
Dear Valentine
This is just to say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in the icebox
you marked them
with your name
But it's my fridge,
you parasite
ah, I remember,
they were so delicious
so sweet
and so cold
much like your heart.
which wouldn't melt
in the hand
of Beelzebub
so get your toothbrush
cargo pants and flannel shirts
but leave me the cute tees
I look so good in
and buy yourself a
one-way ticket
on greyhound
cuz I aint drivin your fat ass round town no more.
Read the runners-up to the BigBadLove rejection contest here.
Click here to reserve tickets with Moviefone to BigBadLove.
"Big bad Love is full of brio and good heartedness . . . and the performances . . . recall the kind of personal filmmaking that graced American filmmaking in the '70s, when screen characters still had complex souls."
—James Kaplan, Premiere
"Big Bad Love is a tourdeforce" "A master work." "A strange masterpiece, a blue-collar art film that will surprise and entrall almost any viewer."
—Lodger, File Thirteen.com
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