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Omnivore: Holy.
Omnivore is a regular report on some of the things that I’ve been enjoying during the week (or thereabouts). I finished George Craig’s Writing Beckett’s Letters and started on Shishkin’s Maidenhair...
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Rojak: New albums galore.
Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog. Assorted Chinua Achebe dies. [via The Guardian] Deerhunter’s upcoming new...
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On dreams.
The content of my dreams has long ceased to interest me; but their proportions, the way they rearrange the things I thought I cared about, the life I imagined I was leading, won’t go away. Why do I...
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Random Access Memory.
2013, Random Access Memory, Daft Punk [Source: Pitchfork]I’m sure you’ve already heard that the next Daft Punk album is called Random Access Memory and is due on 21 May. [via Pitchfork] d
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I know what that feels like, Jacques.
In May of 1951, at the age of twenty, Jacques Derrida took the entrance exams for the prestigious École Normale Supérieure a second time, having failed, as many students do, in his first attempt the...
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Barnbrook on Bowie.
Graphic designer and film maker Jonathan Barnbrook, who collaborated with David Bowie on The Next Day and Heathen, discusses his experience working with the man. [Video from Vimeo] [via the Victoria...
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Reading José Saramago.
Blindness is Saramago’s most powerful novel. It is a grim story of the barbarity, degeneracy, and overwhelming despair that overtakes a society in which every persom but one goes blind, and all are...
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Omnivore: It takes two.
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Rojak: Mama.
Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog. Assorted Pynchon’s V. turns 50. [via The New Yorker] “There’s nothing better...
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For Your Consideration: April 2013.
For Your Consideration is a regular feature published on the first of each month (published on the preceding Saturday if the first is a Sunday) that lists some of my “picks of the month” in reading,...
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Tom Stoppard x Pink Floyd.
Apparently, Tom Stoppard has written a radio play to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. [via The Telegraph] Sir Tom considers the album an “under score”, over...
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New New Directions catalogue.
Here’s New Directions’ Fall 2013 catalogue. [pdf via New Directions] Highlights (for me) include Keith Ridgway’s Hawthorn & Child, a noir book by César Aira called Shantytown, a facsimile edition...
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Roger Ebert dies.
Roger Ebert has died at the age of 70. Over at the New Yorker, a postscript and a story. d
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Omnivore: Motion Picture Soundtrack.
Omnivore is a regular report on some of the things that I’ve been enjoying during the week (or thereabouts). Finished up with Maidenhair and Building Stories. Music has been mostly Flying Lotus and...
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Rojak: Window.
Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog. Assorted Flaubert and Nabokov’s early novel attempts. [via The New Yorker] The...
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In The House trailer.
[via YouTube] This is showing at the Picturehouse now and I’d certainly like to catch it. In The House is a film directed by François Ozon, and stars Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, and Kristin Scott...
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Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award longlist.
This year’s Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award longlist includes Alfian Sa’at and Felix Cheong. Other notable names for me include Deborah Levy and George Saunders. There is of course no...
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Edition Additions: Wittgenstein’s American Face Suicide.
Or… American Wittgenstein’s Face Suicide? Regardless, new books! d
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