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How to read and join our serialized interactive group novel (and writing lab), The Defenestrations

Treasure Island (2018), embroidery on sackcloth by Jay Lozada. Used with permission. Have you been following our group novel? Have you caught up? Are you confused? Good. The Defenestrations is a novel by different authors: Jessica, Allan, Roni, Patrick, Deo, and many others. The core group is composed of people who went through Writing Boot […]

The Defenestrations Chapter 4A, in which Inigo learns the true meaning of horror

Male nude by Egon Schiele. Image from Wikimedia Commons The Defenestrations Chapter 4 By Patrick Limcaco Warning: For mature (or less immature) audiences Part 1 Rubbing dollops of oil on strange men’s backs wasn’t so bad, thought Inigo. Besides, he only had to do it in a dimly lit room that could barely contain two […]

For the March Reading Group selection, would you prefer Salinger’s Franny and Zooey, or Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita?

We had the reading group discussion of Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata yesterday at Tin-Aw Art Gallery. The aircon was being repaired, so we moved to the cozy basement for a very insightful conversation about conformity, the burden of expectations, and individual definitions of happiness. Joining our regular group were Ari, Tere, Tess, Yomoko […]

Every book I read and every movie and TV series I watched in February

Francois Truffaut said, “Three films a day, three books a week, and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.” A good plan for spending your life, but for that annoying concept: bills. So I make do with three films and one book a week minimum, which […]

Reminder: Our next reading group discussion (on Convenience Store Woman) is on Saturday, March 2 at 4pm

The Arnolfini Wedding by Jan Van Eyck, with Jacob gatecrashing See you on Saturday, 4pm at Tin-Aw Art Gallery for our Bibliophibians Reading Group discussion of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman. If you enjoyed Convenience Store Woman, here’s another piece by Ms Murata: the deadpan, bizarre (to us, anyway) A Clean Marriage.

The Defenestrations Chapter 3BB, in which Iñigo’s mother goes mad

Job’s Evil Dreams by William Blake. Image from Wikimedia Commons. The Defenestrations Chapter 3BB by Angus Miranda Part 1 “Mom, hurry!” Teepee fumbled through her Evelyne bag excavating phone, house keys, an assortment of coins, a shriveled stick of chewing gum, a hair comb with missing teeth, bottled water caps, and ketchup packets. She dug […]

How to read and join our serialized interactive group novel, The Defenestrations

Treasure Island (2018), embroidery on sackcloth by Jay Lozada. Used with permission. Have you been following our group novel? Have you caught up? Are you confused? Good. The Defenestrations is a novel by different authors: Jessica, Allan, Roni, Patrick, Deo, and many others. We post a new chapter every week, in daily installments here, on […]

Our group novel The Defenestrations continues with Chapter 3BA, in which Iñigo is a ghost

Treasure Island (2018), embroidery on sackcloth by Jay Lozada. Used with permission. Have you been following our group novel? Have you caught up? Are you confused? Good. The Defenestrations is a novel by different authors: Jessica, Allan, Roni, Patrick, Deo, and many others. We post a new chapter every week, in daily installments here, on […]

On Episode 7 of our podcast, Art Fair organizers Trickie Lopa and Lisa Periquet talk about art, commerce, drama, and which artists they’d like to show

Trickie Lopa and Lisa Periquet of Art Fair Philippines This is the film Trickie mentioned (The title was cut in the edit, sorry): The Clock by Christian Marclay

Falling, landing, falling: A playlist for our serial, The Defenestrations

A playlist compiled by Jessica, Roni, Evan, Von and Pat