Serious reading
I got a letter from Don Delillo, to whom I’d written in distress. This, in part, is what he said: The novel is whatever novelists are doing at a given time. If we’re not doing the big social novel fifteen … Read more →
Posts Tagged ‘Ils ont dit’
Oui, le chaos
Oui, le chaos, oui, le manque de régularité, la perte d’une identité façonnée mais au final quel bouillon… de culture. Karl.
Blood in Your Eye: Why We Need Violent Stories
Difficult topics must be engaged with, and in the way that fiction invites us to engage but numbing news-porn deliberately does not, because news wants us only to witness and have our buttons pushed, and denies greater emotional and intellectual … Read more →
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration. Many of these concerns will be … Read more →
Bill Brandt’s Negative Beginnings
By examining the prints closely, viewers can also see that nothing was off-limits for Mr. Brandt when it came to darkroom work. He would print something one way and then print it in a totally different way, recrop it and … Read more →