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3 June 2010. 18:41
I’ve been talking on and off with friends about the New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” list and….it’s been difficult for me to feel any sense of passion about the “debate.” Part of the problem is that I resent the manipulation of the whole thing — I hate the way magazines use lists to drive sales.
But the other part of the problem is that I’ve never felt so bored by the entire fiction industry as I do at this moment. Some of the authors on the list are quite good (I heartily endorse Yiyun Li), but how many of them are writing in a way that’s relevant to our times, our lives?
This is what I don’t want to read about anymore: anything having to do with comic books, anything “quirky-cute,” any more upper-middle-class Brooklyn problems, any more “precocious” child protaganists. And I can’t blame anyone else who doesn’t want to read about this schlock either. Unfortunately that pretty much wipes out literary fiction at the moment.
The publishing industry complains about the lack of readers, but it’s forgotten how to engage the few who are left.
“Truman Capote, 1947”
Copyright Henri Cartier-Bresson
Reblogged from Stereoscopic Magic.
17 April 2010. 15:02
“I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves. The portrait is your mirror. It’s you.”
— August Sander
Copyright August Sander
Reblogged from Stereoscopic Magic.
9 April 2010. 22:16
from Max Klinger’s 1881 set of etchings, “A Glove”
Reblogged from The Magic Lantern.
19 February 2010. 16:03
It is difficult to know what kind of audience such a painting might nowadays enjoy - or indeed, whether there is any audience at all for it. The visual arts today are so devoid of moral intelligence, so totally sealed off from any problem, idea or emotion that reaches beyond the dialogue that art conducts with itself, that a mind like Beckmann’s seems more and more like a visitor from another civilization.
Reblogged from This Recording.
27 January 2010. 18:51
such a great websiteFascinating (but long) interview with Walker Evans over at American Suburb X.
Copyright Walker Evans
Reblogged from Stereoscopic Magic.
20 January 2010. 22:52
photo by joe flood
hey i used to work with him
Reblogged from through being cool.
14 December 2009. 20:19
I’m listening to Future of the Left for the first time (take it easy, I’m old!), and it’s bringing home just how much Big Black has influenced modern heavy music. You can hear echoes of BB’s ching and vroom everywhere today, from FotL to Pissed Jeans to Akimbo to Health.
I hope you enjoyed FoTL. And I never noticed that Steve wears a waist strap for his guitar until now.
HUH HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK!?
