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Cover designs.
Have a look at some of Peter Mendelsund’s self-rejected designs for covers of Julio Cortázar books (mostly Hopscotch). [via Jacket Mechanical] Remember that Hopscotch is 50 this year. Cortázar himself...
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Tom Stoppard wins the PEN Pinter Prize.
Playwright Tom Stoppard has been announced as the winner of the 2013 PEN/Pinter prize, celebrating a lifetime of literary achievement and his campaigning work in the field of human rights. Founded in...
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For Your Consideration: August 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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Borges books.
The man we see in these eleven interviews is a person made of books, a librarian who often remarked that his idea of paradise was an endless library—a sort of eternal busman’s holiday. He speaks of...
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Omnivore: Face off.
Omnivore is a regular report on some of the things that I’ve been enjoying during the week (or thereabouts). The best thing I did this week was probably to read Kōbō Abe’s The Face of Another. Read...
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Rojak: Commercial.
Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog. Assorted Do you remember when David Lynch did a PlayStation 2 commercial? [via...
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In case you’re bored.
Here’s a handy list of 30 free David Foster Wallace essays on the web. [via Open Culture] d
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Edition Additions: The Wolf Ror’d.
(I’m so sorry!) Two of the more interesting books that arrived today! d
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Lynch’s strange formula.
Hey, the Ultraísta remix album is out right now, which makes it a good time to revisit David Lynch’s fantastic remix of “Strange Formula”. [via YouTube] d
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Four short stories.
Find out which are the ten countries where Shakespeare’s plays are most studied and performed. Hire gangs of professional thieves in these ten countries. Purloin from public and private libraries,...
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Borges on Johnson and Boswell.
….Now, in the same way that we have seen how Johnson is similar to Don Quixote, we have to think that just as Sancho is the companion Quixote sometimes treats badly, we see Boswell in that same...
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The Ghosts of Place.
Once more, I am standing outside of 70 High Street, Lewes. The figure in black who crossed the landing before disappearing into the brickwork is nowhere to be seen, save that of a memory that from time...
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Omnivore: Slow reader.
Omnivore is a regular report on some of the things that I’ve been enjoying during the week (or thereabouts). I’ve been reading really slowly lately because of certain personal matters I’ve had to take...
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Rojak: Hold it.
Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog. Assorted Anna Calvi’s new album, One Breath, is coming 7 October. Here’s a...
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Experimental music.
Pitchfork has a feature on experimental music records of 2013, and it’s introduced me to a couple of cool things. [via Pitchfork] Below! [Félicia Atkinson] [Agarttha] Enjoy! d
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Animation aesthetics.
My central idea in constructing the world of the film was to prove that something totally artificial and unreal could still communicate emotion and hold cinematic truth. The film makes no effort to...
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Spoilers.
Hey, do you want to know who the literary winners are at this year’s PEN Translation Awards? Well, then, check it out in the link. I’m not going to spoil it. [via Translationista] Yeah, this is also an...
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Yu Xiang review.
Yu Xiang, using simple language, striking syntax, and hypnotic refrains, keeps her poet’s eye and mind attentive to the not-so-hidden heart of quotidian life. And what does she find there? People,...
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Rojak: Clichéd.
Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog. Whoa, what a busy week. Here’s a Rojak to end it on. Assorted New Cults song...
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