August 2012
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Directors as Rock Stars
Paul Cullum, whose piece “Hypnotizing Chickens: On Werner Herzog — and Alan Greenberg on Herzog” is live on the main site now, offer this tantalizing sidebar for t-shirt enthusiasts and mash-up freaks everywhere. (Disclaimer: the following article may include skeins of jerry-rigged cultural abstraction.) Phil Anderson, owner of Cinefile Video in Santa Monica, California, has created an...
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Speed, Systems, and Shame
by Lee Konstantinou
In my last round-up, I complained that the #OccupyGaddis Goodreads group was kinda quiet. Since then, it’s been on fire. A debate started in the discussion forum titled “Discussion of pp. 211–240” about whether J R is “hostile” toward its readers (continuing a debate that started on Twitter). In this thread, Brian writes, responding to a blog post by Sonia...
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Radar LARB
Bukowski’s Last, Unpublished Poem, via Fax
Ploughshares’s oh-so-thorough cheat sheet for all things literary in Los Angeles: ”The literary life of Los Angeles is like a newly discovered shortcut or a charming local bistro. You sort of don’t want anyone to know about it for fear it might get ruined…”
Michelle Dean on “Critics...
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Post-Pussy Riot Verdict: Punk and Protest in China...
Interested in learning more about possible parallels between the Pussy Riot phenomenon and Chinese punks, rebels and rockers, LARB Asia Editor Jeff Wasserstrom shot an email full of questions to Jonathan Campbell. Why turn to Campbell? Because he spent 10 years living among, writing about, promoting, and playing the music of rockers in Beijing:
“…in the Chinese context, the reaction...
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The Posthuman Imagination, part 1
“Corporations are people too, my friends.”
When I began to research postmodern American authors in the mid-1980s, I was fascinated by the way that complex systems and objects could themselves sometimes become characters in a fiction. The JR Family of Companies clearly has not much to do with any of the nuclear families in the book or with J R himself (who is more of a sorting demon...
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“The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties...”
– Andrew Carnegie, “The Gospel of Wealth”
Monday First Sentences | Every Monday, we offer the opening sentences of a Penguin Classic to start the week.
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“(Chorus)
Virgin Mary, Mother of God, banish Putin, banish Putin,
Virgin...”
– —Carol Rumens translates Punk Prayer, the song that put Pussy Riot in jail, and explains why previous translations weren’t up to snuff.
Also of note: the literary influences Pussy riot cited in their closing argument.
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