Only the Reel is Real
An edited version of Tom McCarthy‘s brilliant Tate Modern talk on “The Prosthetic Imagination of David Lynch” appears in this week’s New Statesman: “…Deformity, for Lynch, is not simply thematic: it is instrumental. In his films, what the continual, almost systematic replacement of body parts and faculties by instruments — crutches, wheelchairs, hearing aids and […]
His Tattoos
To him, standing looking at the puddles settled in the plastic tubing, it would probably be better if Stevie didn’t come at all. He wonders whether it would be the right thing to do to warn the boy off. It would be their secret. He imagines what would happen if he did. He wonders what Louise would look like all fierce and spiteful. And then naked. He takes the phone from the pocket and then puts it back. He starts to wrestle with the castle, its sagging weight is surprising.
By Stuart Evers.
3:AM Cult Hero: Blaise Cendrars
“Language is a thing that perverted me.” Lee Rourke on The Astonished Man: Reading Blaise Cendrars for the first time is like stepping into another universe. It really is. But did Blaise Cendrars actually exist in the first place? Born Frederic Louis Sauser in the provincial city La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland of a Swiss father and […]