See update. A few weeks ago I remarked that Of Dylan and his Deaths, by Heathcote Williams, was so rich in the author’s personal history and “so evocative of his first inspiration, Dylan Thomas,” that it merited attention as a masterpiece of literary investigation. (The investigative aspect of the essay involves Williams’s indignation over “the […]
Archives for May 2015
‘War Makes People Crazy, Religion Makes It Worse’
Poking around the web, a friend came across “the strangest article.” It had been posted in the Israel Times in August, 2014, and was later taken down with an apology by the author. It asked, among other things: “If political leaders and military experts determine that the only way to achieve its goal of sustaining […]
Late-Breaking Book News: A Party for the Independents
Start the Presses! Announcing the 13th Annual New York City Independent Publishers Book Party (6-8pm, Thursday, May 21, 2015 @ Zieher Smith & Horton Gallery, 516 W. 20th St., NYC / 212-229-1088) EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Recapped: R. Crumb Epic Home Video (Un, Deux, Trois)
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This video was recorded on April 29, 2011 at the Society of Illustrators in New York City, where the exhibition ran from March 23 to April 30. Curated by Monte Beauchamp, editor of The Life and Times of R. Crumb, the show was a retrospective that presented key pieces culled from the underground art collection […]
Chris Burden, R.I.P.
Dead at 69. I always thought he was the real deal. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
New from Cold Turkey Press: ‘Of Dylan and his Deaths’
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A writer as prolific as Heathcote Williams runs the risk of having his poems and prose taken for granted. But this essay — a memoir so rich in personal history, so evocative of his first inspiration, Dylan Thomas, and so indignant about the cultural theft of Thomas’s identity by a famous imposter — merits attention […]
Paul Krugman in Conversation with Jeffrey Sachs
GLOBALIZATION, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, AND INEQUALITY Live-streamed from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Program begins 32 minutes into the video. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Fluxus Poetry: ‘Rail Track,’ Artistbook by Litsa Spathi
i think of it like this: the fact of the artbook = the artifact of the book = the bookart of the fact = the art of the bookfact EmailFacebookTwitterReddit