Wednesday, March 15, 2023

242: Bennington Review & } “Puttin’ On the Ritz.”

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  Bennington Review issue 11 claims “Money Makes the World.” Sure, money’s part of the texture, but there’s also 1980s MTV music videos. F...
Saturday, January 7, 2023

241. Kelly Link loves } Mooncalves.

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Kelly Link once told me I have good taste. Editorially speaking. She also inscribed for me a copy of Stranger Things Happen thusly: “for Ad...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

240. Losing Music } & Swordfishtrombones.

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  [The following fragment, written during the Spring of 2016, was meant to become an essay. It would’ve been called “Losing Music”—named for...
Monday, October 3, 2022

239. Clovis takes a relic & } in no time loses his mind.

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A brief life by Eliot Weinberger: “When [Ilona] received the stigmata, a circle of gold appeared on her right hand and out of it grew a whit...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

238. David Cronenberg’s } funny cars.

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  Watch Crash (1996). Then watch Fast Company (1979). Insectoid machinery: the “Lonnie Johnson designed quadravene blower.” A prototype qu...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

237. & } ampersand.

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  [ “Ampersand” from Matthew Klane’s Co-upt series & the cover image for my Voice Notes , a collection of poetry forthcoming from Spuyte...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

236. Revisit Lucy Ives’ } The Hermit.

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“…studies of description” are? (35.) “I can’t describe myself as a poet. I’m the author of some kind of thinking about writing.” The Hermit ...