What to Read When You Want to Read about Sin
Grant Faulkner shares a reading list to celebrate ALL THE COMFORT SIN CAN PROVIDE.
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Join NOW!Grant Faulkner shares a reading list to celebrate ALL THE COMFORT SIN CAN PROVIDE.
...moreWith so much to hear in every moment, for Sante, the page is a score, the world a song.
...moreMattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses her new book, THE FREEZER DOOR.
...moreMiah Jeffra shares a reading list to celebrate THE FABULOUS EKPHRASTIC FANTASTIC!.
...moreBut then, full of longing to be someone other than I was, his work seemed perfect.
...more“The opposite of nostalgia is truth.”
...moreThe New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
...moreArtist David Wojnarowicz died twenty years ago this past Sunday, on July 22, 1992, from complications caused by AIDS. Cynthia Carr has written a new biography of Wojnarowicz called Fire in the Belly. Dwight Garner reviewed that book last week at The New York Times. “Wojnarowicz…was a painter, a photographer, a writer, a performance artist, a […]
...more“The two men shared a romance with violence and danger. Rimbaud was shot in the wrist by his lover, Paul Verlaine, as he tried to break off their affair. Wojnarowicz was shot at by a drag queen who mistook his knock at her door for the arrival of an unfaithful lover.” At The Millions, a […]
...moreFor me, having been inculcated with pictures of a bloody, naked man nailed to a tree since I was five, any discussion of obscenity, homo-eroticism or sexual violence begins with Jesus, or at least the Jesus that hangs in churches, around necks and is furiously waved in the faces of “sodomites.”
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