Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog.
Assorted
“I’m tired of praising exotic flowers./I miss Sangin’s gardens; they were poor but ours.” Landays: Poetry of Afghan Women. [via Poetry Foundation]
Arcade Fire will release their new album on 29 October. [via Pitchfork]
Something on Yoko Ono. [via The New Yorker]
PEN Award shortlists includes the very excellent The Smoke of Distant Fires by Eduardo Chirinos from Open Letter. [via Three Percent]
Sebald’s Rousseau. [via Vertigo]
Geoff Dyer writes briefly about Andy Murray. [via The Guardian]
The essayification of everything? [via The New York Times]
And finally…
Bulletin
This week:
- Goytisolo on Genet.
- Frisk Frugt.
- A Brief History of Yes.
- Salvador Espriu.
- Archipelago Books.
- And you can see how silly I can look here.
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