Van Gogh’s Ear II – The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
Poets come in all sorts of guises from misanthropic librarians to paranoid megalomaniacs. Few were as unlikely or unintentional as Dutch Schultz. Even by the standards of the time, he was a piece of work. When a rival gangster Joe Rock objected to him muscling in on his territory, Schultz had him kidnapped, hung from a meathook and tortured. Another adversary was found with his heart cut out. Outflanked by business rivals though and too unpredictable to instil mass loyalty, Schultz’s reign was as brief as it was terrible.
Darran Anderson comes face to face with the bullet-riddled mobster-poet.
Monroe Had Read Books Her Entire Life
The homeless man and I have something in common and it’s called heroin. I know because he said BA! five hundred billion times and then once, softly, he said h-h-heroin … His eyes were like those of moose. He was like a moose that’d been killed and stuffed and sold at a discount without the eyes because they’d been stolen. Monroe. Fuck. So she speaks to my brother. Yes, the retarded one. My only retarded brother she speaks to. He is the only person I’ve ever seen her talk to. No, no, he’s not ‘the one.’ She’s the kind of person who doesn’t have a ONE get it? It does make her more appealing, but only until you really realize you’re not the one.
By Katie Manderfield.
McCarthy Ãœber Alles
Tom McCarthy will be in Berlin for the launch of 8 1/2 Millionen (Remainder) on Saturday 14 March at Volksbühne (9 pm). More details here. 8 1/2 Millionen is published by Diaphanes. (Pic by Andrew Gallix.)
Disco not disco
The very lovely Ghost Box records are throwing Youth Club Night with Belbury Poly, (named after a fictional CS Lewis institution and profiled by Simon Reynolds here). DJs: Julian House & Jim Jupp (Ghost Box), Woebot, Mark Pilkington (Strange Attractor), and Jonny Trunk. James Cargill and Trish Keenan of Broadcast provide a live improvised soundtrack […]
3:AM Reloaded
What you (may have) missed on 3:AM last week: Poetry by Jake Severn Reviewed: Richard Marshall on Graham Bendel‘s A Nasty Piece of Work – “better than American Psycho” – and Andrew Stevens on Richard Milward‘s Ten Storey Love Song – “a tad laboured, not exactly perfect but pleasing all the same” Non-fiction: Gaby Bila-Günther […]