This Week’s Reading, 25.3.12

Things that cornered our addled, easily distracted minds this week:

• Portion of ‘Tab. CXI (Strange Babies)’, by Albertus Seba. Full image at Biblioklept.

• Discovering Amos Tutuola. (Thanks, Paul).

• Russian Avant-Garde books at AbeBooks.

• In the UK, Ireland and Switzerland, Film4’s ‘Extreme’ season is running until Thursday 29th March. Disturbing, provocative, boundary-obliterating classics aplenty here, including Naked, Dogtooth, and Antichrist.

• The London Book Fair jumps into bed with the Chinese government.

• An oversight of Luis Buñuel’s ‘Red Years’.

• Juxtapoz has a nice little piece on Swedish surrealist illustrator Marcus Gunnar. More of Gunnar’s design work at his site.

• William Blake Meets Thomas Paine – Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this gnostic drama. (Via Paul).

• The list geeks at Flavorwire scour their record collection for 10 great odes to writers.

• Full Stop’s Scott Beauchamp critiques the latest trailer for the On the Road movie.

• Fantastic book auctions – priceless books from too many lit hard-hitters to mention.

• Saying a fond farewell to Italian screenwriter and poet Tonino Guerra. Despite what Twitter would have you believe, Pedro Almodovar isn’t toes-up yet.

• Rainer Werner Fassbinder – one of the greats in a long and amazing interview: