Deborah Levy‘s “Migrations to Elsewhere“. * An interview with Stewart Home. * Martin Heidegger talks. * Tributes to WG Sebald. * An extract from Sebald‘s A Place in My Country. * On fragments. * John Cage on a TV game show, 1960. * Notes on Werner Herzog. * E.M. Cioran. * Cabinet: a magazine without [...]
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The Missing Links published 20/04/2013
The Missing Links published 08/04/2013
Anne Carson: “There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word that goes silent in transit.”. * Greg Baxter on not reading Musil to the (missing) end: “After all the furious and swift reading I did in Dublin, I was happy to luxuriate in sentences, to read sentences over and over, without any [...]
The Missing Links published 17/03/2013
Picabia‘s legendary 391 magazine. * William Gass, 1977: “I write because I hate. A lot. Hard”. * Donald Barthelme‘s syllabus. * The inscrutable brilliance of Anne Carson. * Lacan’s Joyce. * “So, no-one really reads this or knows me here, or cares about it if they do know me or not, so what am I [...]
The Missing Links published 10/03/2013
Kit Caless reviews Lee Rourke‘s excellent Varroa Destructor, forthcoming from 3:AM Press: “There is a twinkling humour that runs through the book: a kind of funny nihilism through which Rourke brings a dark beauty to the mundane”. * On Félix Guattari‘s unpublished SF film script. * An excerpt from Iain Sinclair‘s forthcoming American Smoke. * [...]
The Missing Links published 27/02/2013
Defining metamodernism. * Clarice Lispector on first kisses. * Susan Sontag on Walter Benjamin. * Deborah Levy‘s Black Vodka, “ominous, odd, erotic stories burrow deep into your brain“, “fabulously jolting“, “dreamlike“. * Deborah Levy’s London. * Eerie images of London nights, 1934. * “Poetry does not have subject matter, because it is the subject.” Ashbery [...]
Totally Lee Rourke published 26/02/2013
Lee Rourke interviewed by Totally Dublin: I’m obsessed with the writings of Jacques Derrida and with the poet Francis Ponge, in particular a work of his called Soap, where he treats poetry as if it were an experiment in a laboratory. He wants to approach the event of the object through language and its cleansing. [...]
I confess published 22/02/2013
Friend of 3:AM Tony O’Neill reads with Lydia Lunch and Bibbe Hansen at The Bowery Electric, as part of Shayni Rae‘s Truckstop Salon Sunday. The skinny: Two trouble making bad ass babes riddled with chemical and hormonal imbalance and a survivor of the methadone clinics, shooting galleries, crack-houses, and flophouse hotels of Los Angeles and [...]
The Missing Links published 21/02/2013
The New Statesman on “Literary Starbucks,” a trend “where publishers are seeing writers adopting more ‘neutral’ language and avoiding cultural idioms in order to appeal to foreign readers and editors”. * A cartoon adaptation of Kafka‘s A Country Doctor. * Ben Kafka on Roland Barthes and the jouissance of writing: “I am an artist, not [...]
#currentlyreading published 20/02/2013
Joe Banks’ Rorschach Audio: Art & Illusion for Sound. From the publisher’s website: Rorschach Audio is a work of contemporary cultural scholarship and an exploration of the art and science of psychoacoustic ambiguities. Part detective story, part artistic and cultural critique, Rorschach Audio lifts the lid on an array of fascinating and under-examined perceptual and [...]
Drawing a blank published
In the Guardian, Andrew Gallix writes on the impossibility of reading: In theory, the novel could thus be anything, everything, the novelist wanted it to be. The problem, as Kierkegaard observed, is that “more and more becomes possible” when “nothing becomes actual”. Literature was a blank canvas that increasingly dreamed of remaining blank. “The most [...]
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