I'm the author of the novels Solip, Say, Cut, Map, The Country, and The City. I've also written the nonfiction books EarthBound and Eat the Flowers. I'm currently publishing my novel A Task via Kickstarter in order to have an hourlong conversation with each of its first thousand readers. For a decade I published books through Sator Press, and for a decade I acted in film and television; now I help students at St. John's College. More info: kenbaumann.com.
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Here lies an interview with Gaspar Noé & Marilyn Manson. (I’m in it for the Noé, but to each his own.) Make sure to get past the first two insanely MTV’d minutes for a calm interview with the filmmaker and a conversation between the two.
And finally, explore the caves of Lascaux from your ccchhhhaaaiirrrr!
Apologies if it’s been a week of too much shop talk, but here goes: Isn’t a human being more complex than any fantasy, literary theory, metaphysic, fictive conceit, etc., we can dream up? And, if so, what do you take away from that, if anything?
11 of the 20 titles on last week’s NYT Mass-Market Fiction Best Sellers list have death in the title. (via Dan Kennedy)
Damnit, I feel revitalized. Go read Modern Love, at Everyday Genius. Now that’s a story. Bravo!
“The problem with the Milky Way is that we are inside the Milky Way.” –from a (fairly basic) article about galactic cannibalism.
And here’s the trailer for the The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, starring Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell (all playing the same person), Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, etc., etc., directed by Terry Gilliam.
