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The Dead Sextons are coming back this week, and coming back strong, with two shows. Thursday the 28th, we’ll be at Bowery Electric at 11pm. That’s 327 Bowery at 2nd St. Then, we’ll follow that up on Saturday the 30th with a set at Hell’s Kitchen Lounge’s Voodoo Saturday in Newark, NJ, opening for our…
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Matthew Simmons and Bryan Furuness over at On Earth As It Is have published my poem, “Center of the Universe.” It’ll be on the front page of the site for this week and then move to the archives next Monday. Have a look.
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If you want a book about the absurdity of war, Catch 22 is the blueprint. Here’s something from the Major Major Major Major chapter that took my breath away for its descriptive power: “Back in the ward, he found his wife lying vanquished beneath the blankets like a desiccated old vegetable, wrinkled, dry and white,…
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If you’re a fan of John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards, read this. It’s Rick Moody’s take in The Rumpus on The New Yorker‘s article about Lurie from last year. I read that article, though I rarely read The New Yorker (mainly ‘cuz there are no big glossy photos and way too many words, as…
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Roxane Gay does a Q&A with well-known critic and fiction writer Anis Shivani at HTMLGIANT. Read it.
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I realize I’m late to this party, but today I’ve become convinced that everything that can—books, magazines, music, newspapers, etc.—will move online in entirety sometime in the very near future. I don’t know what’s convinced me. I had been holding onto the old “people will never give up being able to hold paper publications.” Maybe…
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Cool interview with poet Sommer Browning (and co-head of Flying Guillotine Press) in The Faster Times this week. I enjoyed it. Check it out and check out her poetry and the titles from Flying Guillotine. Their chapbooks are gorgeous. I just read A History of the Human Family a little while ago and it blew…
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Over the course of a few months, I’ve watched Michelangelo Antonioni’s early ’60s trilogy (L’avventura, La notte and L’eclisse) out of order. Last night I finished with La notte, and it struck me as the best of the three. Marcello Mastroianni seems to anchor it, the way he anchors Fellini’s films. Jeanne Moreau is sullen…
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Molly Gaudry and Christopher Newgent’s goal of creating a publicity hub for the indie lit scene is now reality. From their site (which looks amazing): “Our mission is to promote a sustainable literary community by introducing readers to authors we know and love. By providing a public gathering place for ongoing conversations, we aim to…
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