The Missing Links
Listen to Tom McCarthy in conversation with Lee Rourke at the LRB Bookshop. * A Swiss exhibition devoted to Arthur Cravan. * The annotations inside some of David Foster Wallace‘s books. Plus: DFW’s unfinished novel gets release date. * Mods and rockers. * The Brighton underground of the mind. * Jeanette Winterson on Shelagh Delaney. […]
Maintenant #28: Luna Miguel
A lot of people compare me with a sort of Lolita mixed with Rimbaud (and this can happen with good or bad intentions). I hate this kind of comparison, mainly because, as I said before, I am not fifteen. I am a little worried about all this because there are other authors the same age (for example, Elena Medel) who have also suffered this same situation. The most important thing in their works (and I hope it will be so in mine) is not the age but the quality, their ambitions and everything that’s expected from them. Youth is only an added value… I’m afraid that being a woman and a writer is more difficult that being a man and a writer. It seems that readers expect different things according to your gender. Although a big tradition exists, it seems to be hidden, and I don’t know the reasons. For example, if you review the poets from the Generation of ’27 (Lorca, Cernuda, Aleixandre, Alberti…), you might ask yourself where the women are…
In the 28th of the Maintenant series, SJ Fowler interviews the Spanish poet Luna Miguel.
Two Poems
Beware.
Mine is swine flu and malign.
Mine is Cow flu and mad Bird.
Mine is Nietzsche so poorly translated.
Watch my swollen veins,
inside I keep Panero’s slobbers.
Inside, the heart of a Kinder Egg
with no surprise:
Sylvia Plath Dead,
David Foster Wallace Dead,
Virginia, swimming butterfly, Dead…
By Luna Miguel.
3:AM Reloaded
What you (may have) missed on 3:AM this week: Interviewed: Greory Frye talks to Richard Thomas Reviewed: Max Dunbar on Gabriel Josipovici’s What Ever Happened to Modernism?; Joe Kennedy on Slavoj Žižek’s Living in the End Times Non-fiction: Stuck Inn XI, Charles Thomson on the art Damien Hirst stole Fiction: ‘Remains’ by Michael Keenaghan Poetry: […]
Catching Vibration
Lee Rourke and Tom McCarthy in conversation: Lee Rourke: Talking of dividuality, ruptures and networks, the protagonist of C, Serge Carrefax, this doomed, crazed kind of modernist hero – he’s also blocked and ruptured within a strange network of codes, transmission and signals. You get the feeling when reading C that not only is there […]