2009
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Rushdie on Film and the Novel
“The movies are now old enough — we’ve had a century of movies — that you can actually look at a long period of time during which there has been interaction between the forms [of film and the novel]. And…
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Erwin Blumenfeld’s Frozen Emulsion
“Erwin Blumenfeld‘s passion for technical audacity is perfectly exemplified in [this] Kodachrome shot… it was made in violation of Eastman’s exact and careful directions. Color-temperature theories were completely ignored. Yet Alexey Brodovitch, art director of Harper’s Bazaar, once said that…
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Morning Coffee
The wall of knowledge. On the more misconceived Popular Mechanics ideas. P. William’s “The Finishing Touch” is exactly the kind of performance art we can get behind. Nikola Tesla’s Christmas gift for the world, circa 1900. Man returns library book…
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The Velvet Underground’s Not-Quite-a-Reunion Reunion
“They can’t make us wait in lines,” my friend said when we were told the doors weren’t open yet. “This is punk rock.”
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Thoughts on The Salt Smugglers at TQC
“Nerval is remembered as a minor literary figure, an eccentric who walked his pet lobster on a ribbon in the Palais Royal, gabbled his poetry in doorways, read at night with a candlestick on his head, and slept in coaches…
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Artaud’s Tableaux
“Cliches anonymes, Six tableaux vivants realises a partir du Moine, de Lewis” Six tableaux vivants for The Monk by Matthew Lewis, a book Artaud translated and abridged.
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The Truth Is Out There
Wormwood, Nevada, the latest novel by David Oppegaard, is the story of Tyler and Anna Mayfield, who transplant from Omaha, Nebraska, to their temporary home in central Nevada.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/14-12/20:
This week in San Francisco: The last Monthly Rumpus of the year rocks The Makeout Room, cupcakes meet fine art at Project One Gallery, and Paul Madonna signs books, while SF publisher, Chronicle Books, practically gives theirs away. Monday 12/14:…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #14
PONZANI BROS. APPLIANCE REPAIR ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Ponzani Bros. Appliance Repair.
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The Rumpus Co-Hosts New York Holiday Party
Hey New York! Tonight, 12/14, The Faster Times, The Rumpus and Gigantic invite you to party like you just got a $3 mil. bonus. Pull out your pinstripes, pocket squares and silk-twill shifts and join us to celebrate with champagne,…