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Luna Park has a good interview with editors Steven Seighman and Shya Scanlon today, covering the current issue and all things Monkeybicycle. Yesterday Luna Park ran a solid review of Issue 8.
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After a few months of anticipation, I finally got to see this film last night. See it. It’s amazing. It seems like most of the scenes were basically improvised and the whole thing comes off as feeling pretty real all of the time. It documents the beginning and the end of a relationship. The subplot…
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I posted a recording of my poem, “6 Thoughts on Love,” from the April 2011 Poets/Artists magazine to SoundCloud. It’s part of the MIPOesias radio channel there. Check it out, and check out the other poets on the channel.
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I’m pretty excited that Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott’s written and directing a film called ‘Cherry,’ set to begin production in a month. I read the news yesterday, and it made me want to add it to my Netflix queue. But I can’t. It’s not made yet. Looks like he’s got some good names attached. I’ve…
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Very cool review of Shya Scanlon’s Forecast today at the official site of author Chuck Palahniuk. Check it out. It’s not by Chuck, but I think the reviewer, Richard Thomas, followed the Forecast 42 Project very closely.
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Check it out. I’ve got a review of Daniel Tobin’s latest poetry collection, Belated Heavens, up at Gently Read Literature today.
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God, where to begin with Monkeybicycle 8? In not one, but two stories in the issue, narrators lose a finger. But for very different reasons. In Aaron Burch’s “Sacrifice” the main character removes his own finger seemingly as a way of mourning his brother’s death. But in Matt Briggs’ “Hunger,” the narrator loses his finger…
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The Year Punk Broke, the documentary of Sonic Youth’s 1991 European tour with Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., The Ramones, Mudhoney, Babes in Toyland and probably others I’m leaving out (I know Bob Mould was there as a chef), will be reissued on DVD this fall. I watched this movie on VHS in a friend’s dorm room…
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Last night I caught the documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child on PBS’ Independent Lens. I highly recommend anyone interested in art and the cultural history of New York City to find it and watch it. It was a great overview of his life, and also the environment he came out of—the ’70s urban decay…
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I really enjoyed this interview with author and Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott at Days of Yore. I like how he distinguishes between writers who love literature and want to follow in that tradition and those who are screaming out to be heard basically because they’re working some stuff out that happened to them and there’s…
Joe Sullivan 