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BEING A WRITER

Friday, August 21, 2015

As a part of My First Time interview series by The Paris Review, Sheila Heti talks about how she became a writer .

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ADVICES FROM THE WISE ONES

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

The extravagant pervert, legendary director John Waters has precious advices, indeed, such as: ‘If you go home with someone, and they don’t have any books, don’t fuck them.’ In an old interview dating back to February, 13 2014, when his exhibition at Sprüth Magers Berlin was going on, Waters talked about ‘finding friends, beating the [...]

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MISLAID BY NELL ZINK

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Recommended Summer/Winter reading! Just check out what The New Yorker and The Guardian are saying.

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NARRATION AS DRY AS SOIL

Friday, July 24, 2015

Christian Kracht’s book Imperium has been considered as a “Melvillean masterpiece of the South Seas” recently. Released in Germany in 2012, it has now been translated into English by Daniel Bowes.
The protagonist of the fiction is August Engelhardt, a “nudist and cocovore”, who purchases land in what was then German New Guinea, in order to [...]

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CONCENTRATION

Sunday, June 21, 2015

In one of his latest articles ‘It’s a Mistake to Mistake Content for Content’ for Los Angeles Review of Books, the poet and founder of UbuWeb, Kenneth Goldsmith mentions the consumption of goods of Internet –  reminiscent of what Terre Thaemlitz says in our latest issue about mp3s as a commodity and the-almost-violent-act of downloading whatever we encounter [...]

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SMALL WONDERS

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

At the 8-Ball Zine Fair in New York, Peradam Press was, as its name infers, a hidden treasure. The modest title works with artists to publish original literature and occasionally fabricate objects. While Peradam has been around for only three years, it has built a sizable roster. What’s most telling of Peradam’s probable longevity is [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: MZIN / LEIPZIG

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Leipzig is Germany’s unofficial home of books, with its long history of book production, the renowned university for design and ‘book art’ and, of course, the international book fair. So it comes as no surprise that it should have a fine bookstore such as mzin dedicated to independent art and magazine publishing that caters to [...]

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Bad books, in bad places

Friday, June 12, 2015

Read What You Want is no book club.
You come. You bring a book. You read.
That’s it.
It’s a fuckyeah to real books.
Bad books?
Banned books
Badly written books
Softcore books, and those hardcore books
Stolen books
Those goddamn raunchy books that I stole from your dad
Bad places?
Your uncle’s places
Dark & dirty places
Filthy places
Inappropriate places
Or a bad cemetery
Sunday 14 June. 14:00
‘Kirchhof [...]

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PUBLIC LIBRARY PORTRAITS OF CALIFORNIA’S HOMELESS

Friday, June 12, 2015

“On a recent visit to the Sacramento library, the high number of homeless patrons I saw there surprised me. Seeing them in that quiet space, consumed by traditional media, I was struck by the difference between them and most of society with its 24/7 connection to streaming digital media. I began this project to take [...]

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BADLANDS UNLIMITED: NEW LOVERS TRILOGY

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Dazed Digital are calling them “Incredibly fun”, and The Paris Review are calling them “Colorfully hot reads for the thinking pervert”. After some fun, light Summer/Winter reading (depending on your hemisphere)? Badlands Unlimited has recently published the New Lovers Trilogy, including the above pictured, “God, I Don’t Even Know Your Name” by Andrea McGinty -
Eva is [...]

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