Good, Bad, and the Complete Opposite: Cynicism in Golden Age Mexican Cinema
Cantinflas is the inheritor of millennia of cynicism, a philosophy “pioneered” by the barrel-living, work-scoffing Diogenes.
I’m into spiky fashion and queer leather and outrageous looks and every so often an element of club kid. But different. I see queer fashion and the role it plays for me as one of adornment and resilience. Leather is another layer of skin, very protective. And spikes are a deterrent. So it’s a kind of armor.
1,000 Coils of Fear – Olivia Wenzel
The tapestry of voices and episodes in 1,000 Coils of Fear are at home in the beauty and horror of their contradictions, a moving testimony to the power of ambivalence.
Harry Smith: American Magus – ed. Paola Igliori
Maybe he was just in a lot of pain. Maybe he just wanted to fly away—one interpretation of his paper airplane collection.
No Consolation: On Gabriel Blackwell
Almost everyone in the world of Blackwell’s fiction finds themselves trapped in the process of unintentionally suffocating both their significant others and themselves.
Why would I want to write about my love affairs, my dinners with eminences, and my published works when the primordial North occupied such a crucial spot in my mind?
Independent journalism is as essential as the public utilities that many of us take for granted. Local news is the first draft of a people’s history.
[Digging] reflects . . . for me, rather than a resignation, an active embrace of the dirt, the mud, the worms, the fungus, the bodies. The best way out is through . . . this kind of thing.
I wanted salvation without the fall; I wanted art to save me from life.
It made sense to me that writers or artists should utilize constraint in our present world of seemingly limitless possibility.