A nice, relatively brief interview with Chris Ware that is worth watching for two reasons— (1) It spotlights Chris Ware, perhaps the single most important graphic novelist of, well…I think that’s it: the single most important graphic novelist (his epic masterwork, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, being the standard case for legitimizing comics [...]
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“I think happiness is overrated.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chris ware, comics, graphic novels, interview, Jimmy Corrigan on May 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Lost in Translation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged damon knight, daniele chatelain, george slusser, H.G. Wells, j-h rosny, jules verne, nicholas ruddick on May 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I am a native of Gelderland. Our property consists only of a few acres of briar and brackish water. Pines that rustle with a metallic sound grow on its boundaries. Only a few rare inhabitable rooms remain on the farm, which is dying stone by stone in solitude. We issue from an old family of [...]
The Listeners by Leni Zumas
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Booklist, Leni Zumas, Luca Dipierro, Powell's, Publishers Weekly, The Listeners, Tin House Books on May 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Listeners, Leni Zumas’s new novel, has just been published by Tin House Books. The book is available at a discount through Powell’s. An interview with Leni is at Powell’s website. Publisher’s Weekly review. A review of the book is at Full Stop. Her reading tour: May 16 – Powell’s Books, Portland, OR May 21 [...]
Feature Friday: “The Baby of Mâcon” (1993)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Are You Mom Enough, Feature Friday, Julia Ormond, Kees Kasander, Peter Greenaway, Ralph Fiennes, The Baby of Mâcon, Time Magazine on May 18, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Time Magazine, Peter Greenaway had you beat back in 1993—and then some. Below the jump you’ll find the polemical Welsh director’s response to a similar debate in 1993, when the perennially outrageous United Colors of Benetton ultra-outraged Britons with an ad featuring a newborn baby (still bloody, its umbilical cord still attached). Greenaway replied: What [...]
Barrelhouse, or, Some Reasons Why I Am Not an Impartial Reviewer and Don’t Care
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Barrelhouse is one of my favorite literary magazines. It’s one of the first I picked up, at Von’s Books in Lafayette, Indiana, along with the now-unfortunately-defunt Quick Fiction. It’s one of the magazines that I am proudest to have been able to contribute work to. What I am saying is that this is not, and [...]
Big Bridge 16
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Bridge on May 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Big Bridge’s 15th Anniversary issue is now live. It contains multitudes.
Creative Engagement with Jared Hayes’ The Dead Love: Hands and More Hands Together (Black Radish Books, 2012)
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Jared Hayes’ new full length book The Dead Love: Hands and More Hands Together states itself as “an experiment in collage.” This “experiment” states that it is dedicated to and also somehow made of Paul Celan and Helene Cixous, Jack Spicer and Gertrude Stein and Ted Berrigan. In one of the blurbs describing the book [...]
A Sequence on Sequence, Part 3: Amber Sparks
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A sequence on sequence, Amber Sparks, May We Shed These Human Bodies on May 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
[Wisdom from Amber Sparks.] Warning: my thoughts on ordering stories will almost certainly be incredibly unhelpful to you in your efforts to do the same. I really feel, after going through the process of writing and ordering a collection, (PLUG: My debut short story collection, May We Shed These Human Bodies, comes out in September [...]
Feature Friday: “The Room” (2003)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Feature Friday, Music Box Theatre, The Room, Tommy Wiseau on May 11, 2012 | 5 Comments »
I put off seeing The Room for a long time. Some friends told me it was so terrible that it was good, and me, being a real smartypants, thought I knew what they meant by that, and ignored their requests that I join them for midnight screenings at the Music Box (some of them featuring [...]
A Proprioceptive Description (Naropa’s Violence and Community Symposium)
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As proprioception does not come from a singular or specific organ within the body, but from a sort of strange collective (the nervous system), this account will be necessarily fragmented—parts pouring from parts: There was a time when I lived alone in the desert amongst many versions of cacti. There were cacti there, and there [...]
Interview Between j/j hastain and Danielle Vogel re Narrative and Nest (Lulu/Abecedarian Gallery 2012)
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
1. I am feeling very excited to be engaging with you re this little interview in support of and co-investigation (with you) re your new book Narrative and Nest (Pre-Natal Architectures & Narrative Rituals) (http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/narrative-nest/18789364) I wanted to conduct this interview after you spoke with me a bit prior to inviting me to the gallery [...]
The Mill and the Cross and Emily Dickinson
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged After great pain a formal feeling comes—, Emily Dickinson, Lech Majewski, Pieter Breughel, The Mill and the Cross, The Way to Calvary on May 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In bed sick, but unable to sleep; I viewed a beautiful film, The Mill and the Cross, about the 16th Century Pieter Breughel painting “The Way to Calvary.” For some years I have loved Breughel and to see this cipher put onto film (more is known about Shakespeare), portrayed with ease, and placed into a [...]
Amelia Gray reading in Brooklyn
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amelia Gray, Farrar Straus Giroux, GQ, Hospitality, Threats on May 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday May 8th 6:30pm Williamsburg, Brooklyn – get tickets (free) Threats – LA Times Review
“I Don’t Get Art”
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5, 2012 | 18 Comments »
Is it actually controversial to say that you don’t get art? People act like it is. And maybe it seems that way, for some people, if for example they’re surrounded by other people who do “get art,” or pretend to get art, or are part of the art world, or however you want to frame [...]
New Books Roundup #1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ampersand Mass., Big Other, Edward Mullany, How They Were Found, I Falter at the Gallows, John Madera, Joseph Riippi, Matt Bell, The Orange Suitcase, William Walsh on May 4, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Alternately bizarre, poignant, and unsettlingly funny, William Walsh’s Ampersand, Mass.—the titular town situated somewhere between Winesburg, Ohio and Yoknapatawpha County—brings Donald Barthelme’s darkly comedic compressions to mind. These fragmentary, non sequitur-filled stories, peopled by ne’er-do-wells, nincompoops, and priapic not-quite-post-adolescents, circumvent expectations, the seemingly desultory images and events actually carefully sutured together to evoke the sadness, [...]
Are There Any Readers Left: “Les Goddesses” and Reading and Writing in Public Solitude
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There was an interesting piece on the New Yorker blog a few days ago about a new video performance piece by artist Moyra Davey, appearing in the Whitney Biennial. In the video, “Les Goddesses,” she paces decisively around her home speaking into a microphone about subjects both scholastic and revealing—the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, her [...]
Feature Friday: “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” (1968)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Criterion Collection, Feature Friday, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Steve Buscemi, Steven Soderbergh, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves on May 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Don’t let the odd title put you off! It’s just some funny word meaning how things can become interconnected. Cinematically, it contains both “Psycho” and “Taxi” so how can the film be bad? And imagine how smart you’ll sound when it rolls off your tongue in front of your friends. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm is an experimental meta-documentary [...]
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