A friend recently alerted me to a post at Geek System (“Found Poetry in Magic: The Gathering Cards”): a fellow named Adam Parrish made some short poems by blacking out selected text on Magic cards: You can find more of Parrish’s poems here. He says of them, “[s]ome of these turned out well, some not [...]
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Art as Inheritance, part 2: Making New Art Appear as Old Text Disappears (as if by Magic!)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jen Bervin, Surrealism, Magic: The Gathering, Donald Barthelme, The New Yorker, Pablo Picasso, Cubism, Donald Sutherland, Oulipo, Tom Phillips, found poetry, William Burroughs, Wolf Vostell, Adam Parrish, Austin Kleon, Lillte Murders, décollage, Geek System, A Human Document, W.H. Mallock, haikuization, Léo Malet, collage, Georges Braque, Fluxus, Raymond Queneau, Nets (2004), Nouveau Réalisme, John A. Walker, Raymond Hains, Jacques de la Villeglé, cut-up technique, Brion Gysin, Ugly Duckling Presse, Newspaper Blackout, MoCA, Francois Dufrêne, Mimmo Rotella, Alberti Moretti, Beat Hotel, Warren F. Motte, NPR Morning Edition, Wall Street Journal, PBS NewsHour, Marshall McLuhan, Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn on May 10, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Jerry Lewis’s “The Ladies Man”: The Dollhouse and the Forbidden Room
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Absolute Beginners, Ava Adore, Dom and Nic, Donald Barthelme, Gangs of New York, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jerry Lewis, Julien Temple, Lolita, Martin Scorsese, Peter Greenaway, Smashing Pumpkins, Sylvia Lewis, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, The Ladies Man, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Tout va bien, Wes Anderson on May 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »
He’s become a punchline here in the US, but that doesn’t make Jerry Lewis any less of a cinematic genius. Case in point: his 1961 masterpiece The Ladies Man: Whether you’re a fan of Lewis’s eccentric comedy or not, this film is worth watching for its legendary “dollhouse” set alone, supposedly the largest built by [...]
Stanley Elkin, ghosting through Boston, beautifully.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Bad Man, Boston University, Donald Barthelme, George Mills, George Starbuck, Gordon Lish, John Barth, novellas, Paris Review, Searches & Seizures, Stanley Elkin, The Living End, William Gass, writing workshop on April 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A reminiscence of Stanley Elkin & a one-on-one workshop session I was lucky enough to have.
The Barthelme Problem
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Darby, Donald Barthelme, Douglas Adams, Ellipsis Press, John Madera, Joy Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, Lloyd Alexander, Lucrecia Martel, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Rohe, Peter Greenaway, Raymond Carver, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Paul-Martin, Terry Gilliam, Thomas Pynchon on January 27, 2011 | 21 Comments »
[This post is something of a response to John's recent post, and some of the comments made there by Darby, John, and me.] Back in high school/college, my favorite filmmakers were Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Greenaway, and Martin Scorsese: As you can see, I gravitated toward a visually spectacular cinema. Everything else looked so [...]
Where Do Our Desires Come From? (Want as Tradition)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alison Kelly, Amber Sparks, Aphex Twin, Birkensnake, Brian Conn, Brigid Brophy, Built to Spill, Charlotte Brontë, Darby, Diane Williams, Donald Barthelme, flash fiction, Gerrit Dou, Hugh Cornwell, Lydia Davis, Mark E. Smith, Mary Shelley, Mike Meginnis, NOON, Owl City, Rembrandt, Roberto Bolaño, Ronald Firbank, Talking Heads, Television, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Fall, The Postal Service, The Stranglers, Tim Jones-Yelvington on December 4, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been thinking about comments that darby and Mike Meginnis made on Amber’s recent post “I Don’t Like Crap Games.” In response, darby wrote: [...] im saying dont think/worry about what editors want. dont worry about “what they like.” read what you like and write what you like. dont study a journal just to try [...]
Style as Imitation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Clockwork Orange, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Amy Hempel, Andy Kubert, Ann Beattie, apple pie, Bernard Herrmann, Bill Sienkiewicz, Brazil, Carole Maso, Charles Shultz, Chris Claremont, Citizen Kane, Dan Green, David Bowie, Donald Barthelme, Douglas Adams, fine art vs. craft, Frank Miller, Franz Kline, Fresh Air, Henry Darger, Ira Glass, Joy Williams, Kathy Acker, Kurt Vonnegut, Lloyd Alexander, Marc Silvestri, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, Michael Nyman, Nadia Boulanger, Nintendo Power, NPR, Orson Welles, Peter David, Peter Greenaway, Philip Glass, Prospero's Books, Raymond Carver, Ronald Sukenick, Sacha Vierney, Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare, Stanley Kubrick, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Terry Gilliam, The Empire Strikes Back, The Legend of Zelda, The Lord of the Rings, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Wolverine, X-Men on December 1, 2010 | 15 Comments »
1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an apple pie. I don’t know where he got the original recipe from; I highly doubt that he invented it. Certainly he didn’t invent the idea of baking pies. And he didn’t invent the idea of [...]
James Robison on Stevens
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Donald Barthelme, James Robison, Wallace Stevens on November 17, 2010 | 8 Comments »
1. To all readers of Stevens who have not already encountered Helen Vendler’s Words Chosen Out Of Desire and On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens’ Longer Poems , I recommend both books, or, rather, I suggest they are imperative to the fullest understanding and appreciation of Stevens. They redeem to his poetry qualities of passion and investment which are [...]
Guest Post, by Scott Garson: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged City Life, Donald Barthelme, Scott Garson on May 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“Patterns of silver light and so forth.” —”City Life,” Donald Barthelme, from City Life
Guest Post, by Brian Kiteley: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brian Kiteley, Donald Barthelme, Terminus on April 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »
From Donald Barthelme’s story “Terminus”: “Naked, she twists in his arms to listen to a sound outside the door, a scratching, she freezes, listening; he’s startled by the beauty of her tense back, the raised shoulders, tilted head, there’s nothing, she turns to look at him, what does she see?”
Art as Inheritance, part 1: That Lingering Smile
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 13 Ghosts, Batman, Conrad Veidt, Donald Barthelme, Edgar Allen Poe, Edward Gorey, Edward Scissorhands, German Expressionism, Gwynplaine, House on Haunted Hill, J.D. Salinger, James Whale, L'Homme qui rit, Mark Twain, Mr. Sardonicus, Ray Russell, Roger Corman, Roland West, Sardonicus, The Addams Family, The Bat, The Bat Whispers, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Joker, The Laughing Man, The Man Who Laughs, The Masque of the Red Death, The Old Dark House, Tim Burton, Victor Hugo, Vincent Price, William Castle on February 19, 2010 | 9 Comments »
This will be something of a long and meandering trip, only to wind up back where we started. But I can promise that along the way we’ll encounter secrets hidden behind locked doors, as well as deeds that will form the fabric of nightmares. Shall we? This is Conrad Veidt:
My Four Favorite New Books of 2009, #3: Tracy Daugherty’s Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Donald Barthelme, Frank Sullivan, From Baudelaire to Surrealism, Gustave Courbet, Harold Rosenberg, Henry James, Hiding Man, Honoré Daumier, James Thurber, Location, Marcel Raymond, Mr. Arbuthnot, S.J. Perelman, Shya Scanlon, St. Martin's Press, The New Yorker, Thomas Hess, Tracy Daugherty on December 18, 2009 | 23 Comments »
#1 | #2 | #4 MY FOUR FAVORITE NEW BOOKS OF 2009, CONT’D #3. Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme by Tracy Daugherty (St. Martin’s Press, 2009)
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