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BERLIN PUBLISHING WEEKEND 2010 #01: MISS READ

Sunday, August 29, 2010

After the success of last year, the Berlin Publishing Weekend is upon us again: Parallel to the Art Book Fair Unter dem Motto 2010 (with the participation of mono.kultur, of course!), KW Institute for Contemporary Art organizes the artist book festival MISS READ.
For the second time MISS READ has invited international publishers and artists to [...]

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ransoming the commonplace

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

We went to the lakeshore and listened to the foghorns. They bawled melancholy over the limp silk fresh lilac drowning water. But Humboldt responded most to the old neighborhood. The silvered boiler rivets and the blazing Polish geraniums got him. He listened pale and moved to the buzzing of roller skate wheels on the brittle [...]

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THE POETIC FACTS

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Through ‘It’s Nice That‘ I got to know Michael Crowe’s stories. Here you have one.

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SUMMER JEST

Monday, August 16, 2010

Embarking on the mammoth project of tackling Infinite Jest by the late and great David Foster Wallace (which was published in German almost exactly one year ago, by the way, with the translation taking up six years…) – if you’re fortunate enough to have a few weeks of summer holidays left, then this should keep [...]

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THE POETICS OF SPRAWL

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Dropping in a few days: Danielle Dutton’s fantastic S P R A W L – check out an excerpt on the BOMB podcast.

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Visions

Saturday, August 14, 2010

In the box seats J Edgar Hoover plucks a magazine page off his shoulder, where the thing has lighted and stuck. At first he’s annoyed that the object has come into contact with his body. Then his eyes fall upon the page. It is a color reproduction of a painting crowded with medieval figures who [...]

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POPCORN VS DOG

Sunday, July 18, 2010

In the first chapter of his latest book Eating Animals, American author and vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer lists reasons why it would be quite ethical to eat dogs. At the end of the chapter he lists a classic Filipino recipe for ‘Stewed Dog, Wedding Style’. In today’s Observer Food Monthly’s vegetarian special, Foer is among [...]

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THE HARE IN UNDERWOOD

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

And speaking of illustrated books, here is a literary concept of a different kind: Underwood is a new magazine in its very own niche, publishing twice a year a record (yes, vinyl that is) that features on each side one narrated short story by a young and promising author. They’re extraordinarily nicely designed, too. So [...]

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The universe is a library

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Like all men of the Library, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered in search of a book, perhaps the catalogue of catalogues; now that my eyes can hardly decipher what I write, I am preparing to die just a few leagues from the hexagon in which I was born. Once I am [...]

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PROLOGUE TO ETERNITY

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Even though the upcoming weeks are going to be all about that soccer mayhem, it’s time for Thursday’s recommended read: Macedonio Fernández – The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) (Open Letter Books)
“Macedonio is metaphysics, is literature. Whoever preceded him might shine in history, but they were all rough drafts of Macedonio,” a [...]

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