LUTZ, MARCUS, SCHUTT, HASKELL Wednesday Oct. 6th 7pm at the Center for Fiction, 17 East 47th Street, NY, NY Four exacting craftsmen of the sentence discuss writing at its most basic level. Critic, writer, and editor John Madera will lead this panel on one of the most critical parts of narrative. John Haskell is the [...]
Archive for September, 2010
The Literary Event of Year
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I am NOT Spartacus
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Tony Curtis on September 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tony Curtis 1925-2010 This man would tell it as he saw it as evidenced in the following ‘wacky’ interview. It’s a good look at the insider glitz as well. Hint: the man at the beginning is not Tony Curtis. At 1:15 we get the Spartacus story. At 7:22 Tony delivers my favorite curse word.
Arthur Penn’s Night Moves
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Robert Altman, Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg, Wes Anderson, Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn, Night Moves, Roger Ebert, The Long Goodbye, Point Blank, Days of Heaven, Annie Hall, John Boorman, Gene Hackman, Éric Rohmer, My Night at Maud's, Melanie Griffith, The Conversation, William Wyler, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, The New Hollywood, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ross Macdonald, Francis Ford Coppola on September 30, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Well, Arthur Penn died. He was of course a great director. And of course everyone will be talking about how great Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is—and it is great. It’s one of the most important of American films; along with John Boorman’s Point Blank (1967), it essentially kick-started 1970s cinema, and that decade’s auteur-driven New [...]
Looking at Movements, part 2: Post-Punk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bauhaus, Echo & the Bunnymen, Essential Logic, Gang of Four, Greil Marcus, Kleenex/LiLiPUT, Magazine, Pere Ubu, Post-Punk, Post-Punk Revival, Public Image Ltd., Rough Trade Records, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Swell Maps, The Fall, The Kinks, The Monochrome Set, The Pop Group, The Raincoats, The Slits, This Heat, Velvet Underground, Wire, X-Ray Specs, Young Marble Giants on September 29, 2010 | 11 Comments »
We were looking at how five different bands in the Post-Punk Revival of the Naughties drew from fairly different influences: Interpol: Joy Division, The Chameleons; visuals: Minimalism Franz Ferdinand: Orange Juice, Josef K, The Fire Engines; visuals: Russian Constructivism The Killers: The Cars, New Order Bloc Party: Gang of Four The Strokes: The Ramones, The [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 14 / 39, SLEEPINGFISH 0.75
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calamari Press, J. A. Tyler, Sleepingfish on September 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Click through for a review of SLEEPINGFISH 0.75, the fourteenth in this full-press review series of Calamari books.
On Reinvigoration
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“If something works in the first place, you have to figure that it probably works, to some extent because of its freshness. So if freshness is an element, or if novelty or exploration or experimentation is an element, then you have to continue to inject that into making the music. The same song is not [...]
Eight is Enough
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abbas Kiarostami, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, John Cassavetes, Robert Altman, Robert Bresson, Stanely Kubrick, Yasujiro Ozu on September 27, 2010 | 23 Comments »
I love film. I want to pay tribute to eight film directors who have changed the way I see life. Robert Altman 1925-2006
Soda Series #3 Sunday 7pm
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A conversation with: Paula Bomer, Sasha Fletcher, Amy King and Eugene Lim Paula Bomer is the author of the forthcoming story collection Baby and Other Stories (Word Riot Press, December 2010). Her fiction has appeared in Open City, The New York Tyrant, The Mississippi Review, Fiction and elsewhere. She’s the co-publisher at Artistically Declined Press [...]
Looking at Movements, part 1: The Post-Punk Revival
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Wes Anderson, The Decemberists, Danielson, Minimalism, Alexander Rodchenko, Constructivism, Interpol, Dziga Vertov, Floria Sigismondi, Kraftwerk, The Killers, The Chameleons, The Ramones, The Strokes, Tom Petty, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Roman Coppola, Uwe Flade, Glenn Branca, El Lissitzky, Lilya Brik, Orange Juice, The Fire Engines, Josef K, New Wave, New Order, Post-Punk Revival, Ian Curtis, Mark Burgess, Paul Banks, Carlos Dengler, Joy Division, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Suede, Television, Gang of Four, Jonas Odell, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Britpop on September 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
This is the start of an ongoing series, in which I’ll examine two long-running interests of mine: 1) the concept of the art movement (and related issues like “scenes” and “the zeitgeist”), and 2) how the culture-at-large is not all that homogeneous, but rather braided together from numerous different subcultures, each following their own individual [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 13 / 39, BOONS & THE CAMP
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calamari Press, David Ohle, J. A. Tyler on September 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Click through for a review of David Ohle’s two novel(la)s BOONS & THE CAMP, the thirteenth in this full-press review series of Calamari books.
Daddy’s and Museum of the Weird
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Two books have been released in the last month that have blown me away. Both are written by ladies who know the power of a drawl and a hot whisper in your ear. The books I’m talking about are Amelia Gray’s Museum of [...]
Word Riot & Annalemma Submission Stats
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Word Riot (8.1-8.31), Annalemma (6.7-8.9) – Thanks to Jackie & Chris for sharing,
Language and science
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A quick post before I shut down for a few days much needed break. Throughout the 19th century science was confidently telling us something sure and important about the world. Even when it was controversial (Evolution) it was couched in definitive language. And language is important; it shapes the way we think, indeed there are [...]
The big story
Posted in Uncategorized on September 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I am currently reading A Terrible Beauty by Peter Watson. Not a great book by any means, it is superficial and rather slick, but that’s part of what I’m reading it for. It provides an overview of the developments in arts, science, philosophy, archaeology, psychology, literature, politics, etc etc through the twentieth century. If you [...]
Emma Straub: On Ritual
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Emma Straub, On Ritual, writing ritual on September 17, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Emma Straub: On Ritual “I write lying down. Not reclining all the way, but with my back supported behind me, and my legs stretched out in front. I cross my ankles one way, then I cross them the other. My laptop sits on my thighs, supported by either a pillow or a hideous lap-desk-cushion-thing I [...]
Rain, I don’t mind.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Marcus, The Age of Wire and String on September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
After seeing today’s cloudburst in New York City tear down a huge tree, snap it into splinters, this definition of “rain”, found in Ben Marcus’s The Age of Wire and String (I’m rereading it, now), strikes me as apt: “Hard, shiny silver object, divided into knives and used for cutting procedures. Most rain dissolves within [...]
Who Was Mary Shelley?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lorine Niedecker, Mary Shelley, RuneScape, Wikipedia on September 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Funny, Lorine Niedecker’s great poem omits an important detail. From the Wikipedia: Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted [...]
Amy Hempel’s ‘Offertory’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Hempel, Gary Lutz on September 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve read about half of Hempel’s collected stories but none seem so seminal as this one. It’s one of her longer stories, 34 pages, and it hums along quite confidently after this wonderfully evocative and lyrical opening paragraph: We did it twelve times–made love, all of us, to one another twelve times, the two of [...]
A Tale of 3 Cloud Atlases, Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cloud Atlas, Daid Mitchell, Donald Platt, Liam Callanan, The Paris Review on September 14, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Recently I read The Paris Review interview with David Mitchell (read an excerpt HERE), found it so intriguing that I decided to track down one of Mitchell’s books. I decided to try Cloud Atlas. Along the way I found there are not 1, not 2, but 3 books called “Cloud Atlas.” The same year that [...]
Jane Unrue’s ‘Life of a Star’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Burning Deck Press, Jane Unrue, Life of a Star on September 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Reading Jane Unrue’s novel Life of a Star (Burning Deck Press) is similar to the experience of entering a quiet room and seeing the broken shards of a glass figurine lying on the floor and though when seeing the wreckage one is not familiar with what the shards once composed while intact, the essence has [...]
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