Semi-Ambient Review of Mathias Svalina’s I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur
Blake Butler04.23.12
Blake Butler finds a little sweetness in Mathias Svalina’s I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur and burns it off with a machine like the one from the 80s that swings around your ankle as you skip, but it’s not skip counting because that’s how you count by twos.
Jon Raymond’s Contradictory Territories: From Page to Screen
Donal Mosher04.19.12
Jon Raymond is the incredibly adroit screenwriter behind Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy, Meek’s Cutoff and the award winning tv miniseries Mildred Pierce. He’s also an author, and his latest novel Rain Dragon is reviewed here by filmmaker Donal Mosher (whose latest Off Label debuts at the Tribeca Film Festival tonight…review on that soon!). The two also sit down for a chat about the differences between script and prose writing and a heap of other tasty, sage stuff.
Music Man Murray/Record Store Day
Casey McKinney04.15.12
Richard Parks is like a young Orson Welles, brimming with talent and well into his cups… sorry I mean his cups are overflowing, myriads of mastery spilling into various fissures, gullets, open wounds. He can pick a bluegrass mandolin till your heart bleeds in harmony or skips a pulse, but that’s beside the point. Sort […]
Perfume Genius: Put Your Back N 2 It
Christina Lee03.26.12
Christina Lee breaks down why the new Perfume Genius album should never have to exist––and why we are thrilled that it does. Perfume Genius plays the EARL March 29th in East Atlanta.
Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape
Gean Moreno03.01.12
The landcape architecture of Roberto Burle Marx is the interstitial fluid that lubricates the intersection of nature and artifice. As the lines blur that separate insular impulses of design, the artist reimagines the usefulness––and ultimately, the paradigm––of deliniation. Gean Moreno takes us through Burle Marx’s garden of forking paths.
The Whispers of the Gods: Oscars 2012
Kevin Killian02.27.12
Didn’t your mama…er…the movies ever tell you that silence is golden? i.e. shut off that damn cell phone. Yes, no, maybe? This year that little saying, worthy of Emerson, means something more apparently. Kevin Killian and his Oscar party crew do their annual send up of the idols of Hollywood.
Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory
Christina Lee02.13.12
Dylan Baldi starts a war / attack on memory. Christina Lee listens to Cloud Nothings’ latest and talks to frontman Baldi about his Future/Past. Cloud Nothings play the EARL in Atlanta on Friday, February 17.
A magic trapeze: Baby Geisha by Trinie Dalton
Laura Carter02.06.12
Laura Carter explores Trinie Dalton’s short story collection Baby Geisha and finds Flarf, a muddy horse, and what may be the opposite of feminine writing. It’s snapping turtle prose. It’s tree-cutting season.
Chapbook: I Live Here Now by Jackie Clark
Amy Herschleb02.01.12
The latest offering from Lame House Press (which "irregularly publishes chapbooks from emerging poets"), Jackie Clark’s I Live Here Now,…
