In case you missed it, Dark Sky Books (the print arm of Dark Sky Magazine) is up & running & making some waves that I would like to drown in. Seth Berg’s MUTED LINES FROM SOMEONE ELSE’S MEMORY was a careful & yet driving book of poetry that I really enjoyed & Ben Mazer’s JANUARY [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Dark Sky Books : Behold This Press
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Re-reading
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2010 | 22 Comments »
Novels you reread have a different role in your personal pantheon than novels you simply admire or revere. There is something troubling about The Spy that draws you back again and again. Partly it is the sense that you may have missed something – that you haven’t fully unravelled the intricacies and nuances of the [...]
2010, the Year of the Death of Big Star
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Star, Chris Bell, Andy Hummel, Alex Chilton, Jody Stephens, Jon Auer, Ken Stringfellow, The Posies, The Box Tops, Rhino Entertainment, R.E.M., The Minus 5, SXSW, Elliott Smith, Jem Cohen on July 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I realized only the other day that Andy Hummel died earlier this month, on July 19th. Alongside Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, and Jody Stephens, Hummel was one of the founding members of the Memphis rock band Big Star.
Which would you buy?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Donald Antrim, John Gall, The Verificationist on July 29, 2010 | 9 Comments »
On the left we have Jan Bruegel the Elder’s (Flemish, 1568–1625) A Woodland with Travelers (detail). On the right is a design by John Gall, art director at Vintage. There are many details in the Bruegel painting, which Edward Mullany and I recently found in the Metropolitan Museum in NYC. The Gall cover provides an [...]
When You are Giving a Reading, and Look Out Into the Audience, Picture This:
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My Favorite New Band, Moriarty
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Depeche Mode, Gee Whiz But This Is a Lonesome Town, La Blogotheque, Moriarty, Naïve Records, Pauline Acquart, Tom Waits on July 28, 2010 | 21 Comments »
…has been my favorite new band for the past year or so. Below I’ll embed some of their videos in the hope that I can make you like them, too.
Subscribe to Artifice
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2010 | 18 Comments »
For the last week of their July subscription drive, Artifice Magazine is ramping up the awesome. Subscribers will be entered in a drawing to win one of several prize packages that include some of the best in current and forthcoming independent lit, including issues of Annalemma, Another Chicago Magazine, Sententia, Pank and Hobart and much-anticipated [...]
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (7-11/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork, Blood and Guts in High School, Empire of the Senseless, Homogenic, Kathy Acker, Walter Benjamin on July 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Earlier: The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (1-2/53) The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (3-6/53) 7. And so become blinded by the arrival of Kathy Acker, deceased “punk” novelist whose three decades of work “puts in its place a universe of shameless, playful freakery,”[1] a writer who matches “guts [...]
Your Summer Jam
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Maximum Balloon, Your Summer Jam on July 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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Jason Jordan Said Let There Be Two Books, & There Were
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In the rare same-publisher / double-release, Jason Jordan’s CLOUD AND OTHER STORIES & POWERING THE DEVIL’S CIRCUS [ REDUX ] are both available right this very minute. The beauty covers are from Steven Seighman & the publisher is Six Gallery Press. Go forth & dig in, especially if you like your lit curvy & powerful [...]
There Will Be 2001
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Burning Star Core, Chinatown, Daniel Day-Lewis, György Ligeti, John Huston, Jonny Greenwood, Milton, Oil!, Paradise Lost, Paul Thomas Anderson, Punch-Drunk Love, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, There Will Be Blood, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Upton Sinclair on July 26, 2010 | 16 Comments »
This is somewhat late to the party, but three years later I still haven’t seen this argument made anywhere else, so here goes. Many critics have noted that Daniel Day-Lewis‘s performance in There Will Be Blood (2007) drew heavily from his fellow Irishman John Huston‘s turn in Chinatown (1974). See, for instance, here, here, here, [...]
The Special Relationship #2 (a guest post by Jarred McGinnis)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 7:35 in the Morning, Aminatta Forna, Bageye at the Wheel, Colin Grant, Freeda Sangra, Granta, Jarred McGinnis, Katy Wix, Marcus Garvey, Nacho Vigalondo, Negro with a Hat, Samuel Taradash, Sting, The Special Relationship, Tim Wells, Tom Basden on July 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
[The Special Relationship is a new multi-genre performative reading series in London. Jarred's report on the first one is here. —Adam]
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (3-6/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beastie Boys, Bjork, Deleuze, Freud, Guattari, Judge Schreber, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Pagan Poetry, Radiohead, Richard Gere, Richard Linklater, Robert Smigel. Kathy Acker, Rolling Stone, Verspertine, Waking Life on July 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
3. Reproducing visual images on distant screens through the “natural” magic of electricity helps to precipitate a Robert Smigel “Fun with Real Audio” segment of “TV Funhouse” (on the March 17, 2003 episode of Saturday Night Live). The segment features a cartoon Björk inhabiting an alive and increasingly irate swan dress while singing her Oscar-nominated [...]
New work by Tom Delinger
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged tom denlinger on July 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tom Denlinger is a cool Chicago photographer/digital artist, and my collaborator, among other projects, on The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game, eds Kanta Kochar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger (Nebraska, 2009). I was struck by these images he shared with me via email for a recent show in Chicago, which I [...]
Throw Your Hands in the Air (The Dionysian Impulse) (or, Major Lazer vs. Beach House at the 2010 Pitchfork Music Festival)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alex Scally, Apollonian, Beach House, daggering, dancehall, Dionysian, Diplo, Eric Wareheim, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ian Johnston, Kate Gardiner, Major Lazer, Pitchfork, Pitchfork Music Festival, Skerrit Bwoy, Switch, The Birth of Tragedy, Victoria Legrand on July 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Last Sunday I went to the Pitchfork Music Festival. The act I most wanted to see was Major Lazer. Well, I saw Major Lazer. And during the set, in the midst of all the onstage daggering antics, I started thinking about Friedrich Nietzsche.
New Narrativists on Gossip
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s Time to Listen to Cory Doctorow
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A story came out today that a guy in Japan was arrested for sharing some TV shows on BitTorrent. These stories of violations of civil rights in the name of copyright are becoming more frequent – and often in locales we see as fairly progressive (Sweden, France, Japan, etc.). I think a lot of us [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 10 / 39, TRILCE
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calamari Press, J. A. Tyler, James Wagner on July 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Click through for a review of James Wagner’s TRILCE, the tenth in this full-press review series of Calamari books.
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