Eve Babitz: I am a stacked 18 year old blonde on Sunset Boulevard. I am also a writer.
“People with brains went to New York and people with faces went to LA. When they reach 15 and their beauty arrives, it’s very exciting, like coming into an inheritance……and it’s fun to be around when they first come into the money and how they spend it and on what”. – Eve Babitz. The voluptuous […]
We need to start talking about…….Yoko Tawada.
“In Tawada’s work, one has the feeling of having wandered into a mythology that is not one’s own”. – Rivka Galchen, New Yorker. Utterly original. Stories that sit in that intersection between hallucination and reality. The Bridegroom was a Dog. It’s an erotic fable…… and why not? The Naked Eye: A Vietnamese woman is kidnapped […]
Who Is Patrick Modiano?
“The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.” – Patrick Modiano. He doesn’t know either. Or rather, what he does know, he shares with us in a series of novels that have the kind of atmosphere that one finds in […]
Why You Must Read: Annie Ernaux.
“It’s the work of a novelist to tell the truth. Sometimes I don’t know what truth I’m looking for, but it’s always a truth that I’m seeking.” – Annie Ernaux. It isn’t easy to look away once that truth is revealed. Links are what Ernaux has always been after. She has been devoted to a single […]
Discover : Free Dirt – Died Pretty
“Free Dirt is a fine, fiery effort… the band hotwires the past for its own purposes..” – All Music 4 1/2 stars. Released in 1986, Died Pretty‘s magnificent debut album, Free Dirt, remains one of the great Australian rock albums. Combining Stooges-like grunt with the avant-rock stylings of Pere Ubu and the Velvet Underground, the band forged a dark […]
In Praise of: Siri Hustvedt.
” Hustvedt has the imaginative mastery to encase complex ideas in the flesh and blood needed to render them visceral”. – Observer. There are few writers working today who can reconcile an inner life with an outward one as completely as Siri Hustvedt. An American writer, and specifically a New York writer, dense and knotted […]
READ: Svetlana Alexievich
“Reality has always attracted me like a magnet, it tortured and hypnotized me, I wanted to capture it on paper. So I immediately appropriated this genre of actual human voices and confessions, witness evidences and documents.” – Svetlana Alexievich. Reading Svetlana Alexievich may be the closest you can get to experiencing the past – […]
Slim Aarons
“I didn’t do fashion, I did the people in their clothes that became the fashion.” – Slim Aarons The difference between fashion and style…… is the difference between the transient and the timeless. Driven by a journalistic curiosity about how the world’s most privileged people lived, Slim Aarons photographed luxury fashion’s evolution through the decades. […]
Listen: Rowland S. Howard – Teenage Snuff Film
“The color of Rowland Howard’s music is a deep-purple bruise.” – Lydia Lunch “His guitar playing was like the stab of a switchblade.” – Laura Jane Grace By the end of his stints in The Birthday Party and These Immortal Souls, Rowland S. Howard had already built a reputation as Australia’s premier anti-guitar hero. […]
Listen: NEU! – NEU!
“Neu: standing with cocked German eyebrows at the nexus of shimmering space rock, processed psychedelia, mechanical kraut, and wonderfully libidinal disco.” – Pitchfork Even in 2022, Neu! still sounds like the future. It’s easy to talk about how much this band/record have influenced but there is no denying that the power of sheer […]