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June 3, 2013
criminalwisdom:
“If we’re going to talk about police...
“If we’re going to talk about police brutality, it’s because police brutality exists. Why does it exist? Because our people in this particular society live in a police state.” — Malcolm X, NYC, 05/29/64
(Source: babylonfalling)
June 2, 2013
A Talk With Vanessa Veselka on Her Novel Zazen
Friends have recommended Vanessa Veselka’s novel Zazen to me. If it’s even half as interesting as this interview with her, I’m sold.
June 1, 2013
Poem: The Source of No
source of no -
beyond me and you,
beyond emptiness and form -
the question is wrong
and the answer has been laughing
from before it was conceived.
May 31, 2013
Pickpocket
I keep saying that what I want when I write a novel is to get as close as possible to a blank page while still having a story. When I watch Bresson’s films, I think he was trying to get as close as possible to a blank screen while still having a story.
A couple days ago I watched the Criterion Collection DVD of Pickpocket. Among the extra features is short film of Paul Schrader talking about the influence it had on him. He mentions his screenplay for Taxi Driver, but for some reason doesn’t...
May 30, 2013
criminalwisdom:
HUMAN HEAD ENCASED IN AN IRON CAGE
It’s been a...
HUMAN HEAD ENCASED IN AN IRON CAGE
It’s been a while since I posted anything quite so macabre as this but the image of a group of boys making this grim discovery as they played in the sands at Hempstead, L.I., in the mid-1930s, had a grim allure for some reason. Perhaps because of its links with the golden age of piracy.
According to Corbis Images the cage is ‘evidence of an early pirates’ torture device,’ namely, gibbeting. In the earliest recorded examples of gibbeting from the...
"When there is ‘conditional’ love based on our performance or behavior, when we become ‘domesticated’..."
- from the essay “Unlived Lives” by Paul Levy at Nailed (via thisisnailed)
May 29, 2013
lareviewofbooks:
The Golden Age of Hip Hop: An Interview with...
The Golden Age of Hip Hop: An Interview with a Beijing Rapper
by Alec Ash
Nasty Ray, 25 years old, is a Beijing rapper straight out of the hutong. He lives in the west of Beijing with his mum, in building 22. (“Welcome 2 da hood, this is Tuanjiehu, I live in 20Two”, goes one lyric.) His walls are covered with basketball posters and his own hip hop sketches, and one room is a shedload of vinyls and decks. He greets me in baggy clothes, padded jacket and a Yankees baseball cap. I...
powells:
travelingbookgirl:
Powell’s City of Books- Portland,...
Powell’s City of Books- Portland, OR
Based on their love for the underground and the outlaw writer, Allison Bruns and Chris Haberman made duo portraits (one from each artist) of 25 of their favorite American authors, including Mark Twain, Charles Bukowski, Ken Kesey, Flannery O’Connor, Oregon’s Ursula Le Guin, and many more. Each artist’s unique and colorful style was worked from the same photograph, bringing their own voices to the images of these celebrate...
May 28, 2013
DANIEL WOODRELL: Life Outside The Tent | Your FLESH mag
When I read this interview with Daniel Woodrell in Your Flesh in the mid-1990s, I was profoundly affected by this:
“I went into the Marines the week I turned seventeen. The war was in full stink but I never was sent (despite twice volunteering). I grew up with the war buzzing all around my head and the various attitudes and influences the war brought to me cannot be overstated, as I now realize. I was part of the very angry and seriously...
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