Notable New York, This Week 5/18 – 5/23
This week in New York Ben Marcus and Deb Olin Unferth read, John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) performs with PiL, MobyLives presents book trailer awards, One…
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Notable San Francisco, this Week: 5/17-5/23
This week, wood block prints, films about farms, have a nerd-gasm at Cory Doctorow’s EFF reading at 111 Minna, see suspense-master Palahniuk at the Swedish American Music Hall, and get…
recto|verso
Amazing lost images from recto|verso, the blog of F. A. Bernett Books (“Rare Books on Art, Architecture, Design & Visual Culture”):
Andrew Abbott
The paintings of Andrew Abbott run a broad, beautiful range of darkness and humor. Several of his paintings remind me of Picasso: “Say No to Durgs” [sic] has all the…
New York Galleries: What’s Notable
While New York Gallery Week was last weekend, which for the most part means that galleries were open on Sunday, the galleries in Chelsea, SoHo and the meatpacking district have…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Progress
“People were gathered in the entryway looking at something, and when we stepped forward we saw what: a couple laying on the floor, kissing and embracing in slow motion.”
Zak Smith Does Blood Meridian
Rumpus contributor and all around awesome writer/artist Zak Smith, in collaboration with “Sean McCarthy, John Mejias, Craig Taylor, Shawn Cheng, and Matt Wiegle,” has a new project: “Six Versions of…
“How did you become a rock ‘n’ roller, anyway?”
“Truth? I was broke. I got into rock because it was enjoyable way of making my money and taking four or five years to puzzle my next move out. I…
Cometbus #52: The Spirit of St. Louis; or How to Break Your Own Heart, A Tragedy in 24 Parts
On most sunny summer days, Aaron Cometbus can be found leaning back in a folding chair behind a well-organized used book table on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, scribbling in Sharpie…
Voyage Fantastique vol.2 (Embryos in Space)
All images from Le Livre de Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1967) volume 2:
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/10-5/16
This Week: The May Monthly Rumpus! Have some Lit&Lunch at 111 Minna, Bawdy Storytelling, an extra Rumpus-y Literary Death Match, and crazy drunken San Franciscans in varying degrees of nudity:…