2009
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Random Media Notes
Paris court convicts Google of copyright infringement. Twitter hacked by pro-Iranian group. Does the HuffPo strategy work? Journalist deaths hit record in 2009. Why is TV viewership still rising?
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #10: Hobo Chant, LaFayette, Louisiana, 1937
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Hobo Chant, LaFayette, Louisiana, 1937 dem coals inside your chest dem coals is hot and white you gotta change your mackacheese if you wanna be ma wife
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Funny Women Around the Web, 12/18/09
One of the funniest women on Internet–actually, one of the funniest women alive–is D.E. Rasso, did you know? Thanks to Maud Newton now I know. I really love Maud Newton. The important National Review recently discussed D.E. Rasso and her feminist…
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Morning Coffee
Here are some pictures of a fireplace in a Norwegian kindergarten. You know, if that’s your thing. You might like to think we are above posting things about drunk 4 year olds. You would be wrong. Jimmy McNulty reads Chekhov.…
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The Rumpus Review of 35 Shots of Rum
Possibly the most humanistic character study from director Claire Denis: thoughtful, endearing, and rendered with exemplary tact.
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Paul Bowles, Travel and the Non-Christian World
“With few exceptions, landscape alone is of insufficient interest to warrant the effort it takes to see it. Even the works of man, unless they are being used in his daily living, have a way of losing their meaning, and…
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Adventures in Russian Literature: An Upcoming Adventure
“They couldn’t figure out exactly where the book fit. Part literary criticism, part travel writing, part memoir, Batuman’s collection of seven nonfiction pieces moves from the campus of Stanford University to Uzbekistan, contemplating everything from Isaac Babel to an overweight…
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Honoring an Amazing Writer and Father
“He had raised three of us single-handedly following my mother’s premature death when we were five, seven and nine. It was the 60s, when single fathers didn’t do that sort of thing. Most of his friends were sceptical. But he…
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Single Sentence Animation: Lydia Davis’s “The Cows”
Artist Donna K. riffs off a sentence from author Lydia Davis’s “The Cows,” featured in Electric Literature No. 2.
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Nights of Siberia
Alexander Alexeieff’s illustrations for Joseph Kessel’s Les Nuits de Siberie (1928):
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In the Art Rags
Larry Sultan is dead. The photographer behind Pictures from Home passed away from cancer on Sunday at the age of 63. The SF Chron, NY Times, and LA Times have similar obits. In 1990, Catherine Liu (yes, that Catherine Liu)…