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Mine for yours: My favorite fiction, poetry, nonfiction, music, film, art &...
Books (fiction)in no order1. Eugene LimThe Strangers(Black Square Editions)2. Rachel Levitsky The Story of My Accident Is Ours(Futurepoem)3. Jeff Jackson Mira Corpora(Two Dollar Radio)4. Tao Lin...
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Chilly Jay Chill presents ... The Jonathan Franzen Paris Review interview...
John Ashbery says surprise is one of the key ingredients of great literature. He was specifically talking about Jane Bowles, but he might as well have meant Megan McShea. From sentence-to-sentence and...
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Santa Claus's House
Generally'In 1821, the book A New-year's present, to the little ones from five to twelve was published in New York. It contained "Old Santeclaus", an anonymous poem describing an old man on a reindeer...
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Le Petit MacMahon de David Ehrenstein presents ... L’Amour Fou, Le Pirate,...
(Jean-Pierre Kalfon et Bulle Ogier dans L’Amour Fou)Made in 1968 (one can smell May in the air) Jacques Rivette’s third feature like his first, Paris Nous Appartient, deals with the interplay between...
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Galerie Dennis Cooper presents ... Snow Globe Show: Bounty, Anthony Gormley,...
BountyAnthony GormleyThomas DoyleNeil ConleyPhillip ToledandoOrson WellesJean Paul GaultierMartin MargielaWe Love Cards Ltd.Louise DevinDorothySnoap GlobesJA-JA ArchitectsHideyuki NakayamaLouis...
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Gig #50: Requiem for and by the newly dead: Chris Austin, Shadow Morton,...
Chris Austin/Tape ErrorShadow MortonDavid Parland/BlackmoonZbigniew KarkowskiFaye Hunter/Let's ActiveMick Farren/The DeviantsScott Miller/Game TheoryAkifumi Nakajima/AubeTim Wright/Pere UbuLindsay...
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90 drugged
*p.s. Hey. Apologies for what I imagine was a very slow page loading time today. ** Allesfliesst, Hi, Kai. I thought he also looked befuddled or defeated or something. His stance or lack thereof or...
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Spotlight on ... THEM, a trans* lit journal
About'THEM is a body. 'THEM is a body of writers, of writing that does not conform.'Whether we lie outside, between, reject, or move freely between gender identities, our bodies are a site of...
View ArticleDavid Ehrenstein presents ... "High School Madness," a chapter from Raised By...
Hey, let’s rush ‘em” somebody said. It was typical autumn afternoon in 1961 on the Morningside Heights campus of New York City’s “High School of Music and Art,” and a group of us were engaged in...
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Shamate Primer
'On Nov. 5, a Chinese blogger posted three photos of a young man in spiky hair for his 1.6 million followers on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter. “Caught a live shamate on the street today,” he wrote...
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Meet humancow, Mummy, KEEPSHIT100, removeme, and DC's other select...
________________egg69, 18Sometimes I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when she's supposed to nod and says what she's supposed...
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Jim Jarmusch Day
'Back in the mid-80s, Jim Jarmusch was the last word in cinema chic, the coolest kid on the independent-movie block. Sixteen years and seven feature films later, Jarmusch stands as the last of a dying...
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Thomas Moronic presents ... EVERYTHING IS FUCKED # 4
*Hey. If you check this blog regularly, you must have gathered by now that I'm a huge fan of what the gif can and can't do. Thomas Moronic is a veritable gif auteur, and he's back with volume four of...
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Gig #51: Of late 4: Tsembla, Richard Skelton, Blondes, Celeste, Kemper...
TsemblaRichard SkeltonBlondesCelesteKemper NortonCroatian AmorFelix KubinRhys ChathampattenRashad BeckerInnodeGlorior BelliGabriel SalomanÄÄNIPÄÄ__________________TsemblaLive @ Lounge Bar'Tsembla is...
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Novel-in-progress scrapbook page #7: Second section, part 3
"I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I...
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Alan presents ... EGYPT
*p.s. Hey. I'm very happy to pre-send the blog off into its short winter reruns phase by offering you a guest-post by a true maestro of "the post", writer and d.l. Alan. Please use your eyes to trace...
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Rerun: 31 notches in The Fall's big belt (orig. 03/10/07)
----Absolute basics1. The Fall are an English post-punk band, formed in Manchester in 1976. Named after the English translation of Albert Camus' novel, La Chute (The Fall) (1956), they are notable for...
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Rerun: Some of the skinny on Raymond Roussel (orig. 03/07/07)
----"A formidable poetic apparatus" -- Marcel Proust------"Raymond Roussel belongs to the most important French literature of the beginning of the century" -- Alain Robbe-Grillet------"Genius in its...
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Rerun: SYpHA_69 presents ... American Psycho Day (orig. 02/24/07)
----AMERICAN PSYCHO: The Discovery----I first learnt about American Psycho during my second year as a student at Rhode Island College (around 1999). At that time, I had a huge interest in extreme...
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Happy birthday to me: 127 Bresson
*p.s. Hey. I guess it's my birthday today. And I guess I've given myself and my blog a gift by swamping it with images from the work of my all-time favorite artist and hero and role model Robert...
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