Live Giants 5: Sam Lipsyte
You missed Sam’s live reading but you can pick up his new book, The Ask, now. And you best.
The Wigleaf Top 50 [Very] Short Fictions 2010
are live and listed now, with this year’s final judge Brian Evenson.
Are we really all reviewers?
Here’s a cool new thing if you’ve got the cash to spare: The Rumpus has started up a book club in which you’ll be sent an advance copy of some anticipated novel each month in exchange for twenty-five dollars. At the end of that month you’ll be invited to “a moderated online discussion” with the author.
“It used to be that only people in the media got advance copies of books but that wall has come down quite a bit. Now everybody’s a reviewer.”
Really? Are we all reviewers now?
Mike Young—
I know we already linked to it, but Mark Baumer’s walk-across-America trekblog is awesome.
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Matthew Simmons—
The Moby Awards (Best Book Trailer) finalists are announced. Good on the lot of you! (Happy to see Kathryn Regina’s I’m In The Air Right Now on the list, as I suggested it. Happy to see the others, too. Also, though, self-attentive.)
You’re welcome.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unw8YYKYZPQ
If you—like me—went through that list of films Blake linked to earlier and said, “Man, I haven’t seen more than four or five of those,” then watch the above video. And then you’ve seen another!
I’m a fan of people who work with found footage so am happy to have been introduces to Peter Tscherkassky. The soundtrack on that piece is hypnotic.
Anyone else I should know about?
Free Verse: Susan Howe and David Grubbs
About to go nite-nite to this and wake up with a booboo.
She’s got the whitehallwayvoice, that’s freaky.
[via Ben Estes’s facebook feed]
Bill Murray Poetry in a Hard Hat
On the occasion of the building of Poet’s House in Manhattan:
Representation Without Taxation
I find myself obsessed with two things this morning, the first being the viral video of Lin Yu Chun singing a flawless rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You”:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RgXC303Q5A&feature=related
The second artist Alexa Meade, who paints human flesh so that the subject appears to be a painting rather than a living person; the backgrounds, too, are painted to look like a painting, thereby making a photo look painted:
What is the literary equivalent to Lin Yu Chun’s uncannily flawless performance? How do we complete these analogies; what are the X’s in
“Lin Yu Chun : Whitney Houston” as “Writing : X” ? Or the more direct, “Photograph : Painting that looks like a photograph” as “Writing : X” ?