Monthly Archives: August 2014

is dead. So report my friends Scott Carrier and Alex Caldiero this morning. Bowden died in bed of a flu-like illness. No one in the world wrote like him. His work scorches your eyes, scalds your soul. I have reviewed a … Continue reading →

Zarko’s and my book Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary has been published. It’s available at punctum books. For more about the books and the authors, including photos from the trips the books chronicle, click HERE. The cover: [click on image for a … Continue reading →

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Approaching the publication of our Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary (the vampires are Zarko’s, the dictionary only peripherally related to vampires mine), I asked Zarko about his prose, about his work that David Albahari describes as “the most radical of … Continue reading →

Sam, I’ve been thinking about why we didn’t wear helmets after the first years that we rode our bikes. For me it is connected to the impulse not to give in to coercion. We were working in a very coercive … Continue reading →

The New York Times reported this morning that Harun Farocki died near Berlin on Wednesday. The news took me back to an encounter I had with the filmmaker: 20 May 1989, Tübingen   Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (Images … Continue reading →

Driving up into our little town of Woodland Hills, I saw this vision:                                                       … Continue reading →