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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
This week: Austin Osman Spare, edible and smokable books, author portraits from Carl Kohler and more.
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Tags: austin osman spare, blood, blood painting, carl kohler, conium review, corrine de winter, David Foster Wallace, don delillo, doris lessing, edible books, fuck you, japan, japan tsunami, jordan eagles, painting, revolution house, robert pirosh, shoulda known better, smokable books, snoop dogg, the golden notebook, the golden notebook turns 50, this week's reading
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Internships: we need help, and you need experience. It’s all one big happy win win situation really. Sort of. We would like you good people to help us with our plight to make the world’s most original and inspiring literature become available to…the world, and to keep independent literature alive and well, and maybe even slightly comfortable also, with a pillow fluffed behind its back. (more…)
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Tags: Honest Publishing Internships, Honest Publishing jobs, publishing internships, publishing jobs
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
This week’s motley links round-up:
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Tags: adrienne rich, amiga, andy warhol, april fools, Bukowski, can, debbie harry, Ernest Hemingway, flash mob, Harry Crews, hemingway, martin scorcese, nick cave, richard brautigan, richard oelze, taxi driver, this week's reading, thomas pynchon, troels carlsen
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Sunday, March 25th, 2012
Things that cornered our addled, easily distracted minds this week:
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Tags: albertus seba, amos tutuola, antichrist, avant-garde, book auctions, dogtooth, extreme films, film4, films, london book fair, marcus gunnar, music about writers, naked, rainer werner fassbinder, russian literature, songs about writers, this week's reading, tonino guerra, william blake meets thomas paine
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
All writers, whether they be poets, short fiction authors, or novelists, have had enormous influences on their writing. For me those influences range from Dostoyevsky to Fitzgerald, from Pablo Neruda to Bob Dylan. Sometimes a poet can have an influence on my fiction, and sometimes a novelist can have an influence on my short fiction. But for many years there has been something else, something extraordinary, something you don’t have to buy, something that is right there all of the time like a 24-hour a day classroom that is always at your disposal. (more…)
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Tags: Boardwalk Empire, Bob Dylan, Breaking Bad, Curb Your Enthusiasm, David Foster Wallace, Deadwood, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, hemingway, Jonathan Franzen, kerouac, LOST, Lovecraft, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, Nip/Tuck, Pablo Neruda, Phillip Roth, Sherman Alexie, short fiction, Short Stories, short story books, Silvia Plath, Steinbeck, The Killing, The Shield, The Sopranos, The Walking Dead, The X-Files
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
It seems like a silly question – what is poetry? But in many ways I think it is crucial, so, for World Poetry Day, let’s spend a bit of time glaring at the roots.
What is a poet? A poet is someone who practices the art of writing poetry. Is someone adept at writing poetry.
The South Korean film, Poetry, tackles the poet/poetry issue in a very interesting manner. The protagonist, an elderly lady, decides to join a poetry class. She then struggles throughout the entire film to write a poem because she can’t get her head around how to be poetic, although her life, experience and troubles are perfect poetic fodder. She makes notes of what she sees and eventually these notes turn into a poem. (more…)
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Tags: becoming a poet, Bogdan Tiganov, bt, Poetry, what is poetry, world poetry day, writing poetry
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Saturday, March 17th, 2012
What tickled the Honest hive mind this week:
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Tags: blood lotus, boris vian, christer strömholm, criminal class review, dante, david cronenberg, hunter s. thompson, jean giraud, Linda Ann Strang, Liu Xiaobo, lolita, moebius, orbis magazine, paul celan, putin, the divine comedy, this week's reading, todesfuge, videodrome, vladimir nabokov
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
The current events in Syria, where the regime of President Bashar al-Assad (based on reports from the UN) have been conducting a systematic and vicious assault against Syrian civilians and those factions trying to protest against the government, has yet again raised the specter of genocide and human rights violations. We’ve seen this movie before in Tunisia and Egypt and Libya. For myself it forces me to put myself in the shoes of the citizens of Syria and, also, in the shoes of those who are being ordered by the government to carry out attacks on their own citizens. This is a lose-lose situation for both sides until the rest of the world exerts pressure on Syria to force this to a peaceful end. But with so many already dead it is far too late for many Syrians. (more…)
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Tags: arab spring, jeanpaul ferro, President Bashar al-Assad, Syria
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Saturday, March 10th, 2012
What left us out for the count this week:
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Tags: animation, beat the dust, expressionism, guy de maupassant, Harry Crews, Jack Kerouac, jan svankmajer, joseph heller, nicolae tonitza, peter vos, queuing for bred, Romanian art, this week's reading
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