Julius Neubronner’s Photographer Pigeons
Freedom of natural flight, fetish of the unknown.
The First Bad Man – Miranda July
Combat is intimate. Living is intimate. The space between my socks and the front of my boots is intimate.
Stuff I’ve Read in the Last Month (Or So): Fantasy and Realism
In order to deal with the terrible dullness of being alive, man invented fantasy novels.
In Sacha Polak’s Zurich, the emotional abyss of grief is charted in a physical landscape, making it a reality.
The metaphor of war works from the assumption that there is no consensus, that there never was agreement to begin with.
Texas: The Great Theft – Carmen Boullosa
It’s an interesting counterpart to a mainstream Anglo-Texan version of this history that erases the violence.
On “Bored in the USA” on Letterman on YouTube
Father John Misty’s Letterman performance opens up a space where irony and sincerity can co-exist.
The University of Pennsylvania – Caren Beilin
Suffused with the unwieldy body historically associated with femininity, Beilin’s work is evasive, unruly, nonsensical.
The time is ripe for an author to tell their story of how an MMORPG destroyed their marriage.
While dystopian fiction, film, and television is now as popular as it’s ever been, we’ve surgically amputated our fears about societal collapse from our individual ambitions.