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JOHN MCWHINNIE, RIP

Thursday, January 19, 2012

John McWhinnie, book lover, dealer, and publisher, died earlier this month. McWhinnie, who specialized in counter-culture ephemera and art publications, was a huge presence in the insular, obsessive New York art book scene; in addition to the wonderful shop he ran with Glenn Horowitz, McWhinnie consistently had the most engaging booth at the New York [...]

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The Emigrant

Sunday, December 18, 2011

W.G. Sebald, one of the greatest German authors of all time, died 10 years and four days ago. He was 57 years old. Damn.

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A SPECIAL ON TIME TRAVEL

Friday, November 11, 2011

Nerdy magazine Wired’s US edition features a special on time travel this month. One article examines Haruki Murakami’s novel 1Q84 which was just released in the English translation. Murakami creates a “bizarro version” of 1984 and Wired compares it to the real 1984 as it happened.

Moreover, there’s an interview with Stephen King about his latest [...]

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SAVE THE DATE:

Monday, November 7, 2011

MISS READ invited publishers and artists to show their books –
for the first time with the participation and presentation of mono.kultur!
Dates: November 25 to 27, 2011
Opening hours:
Friday, November 25 and Saturday, November 26, 3 – 9 pm
Sunday, November 27, noon – 7 pm
KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin
Program and further [...]

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KAFKAESQUE ABSURDITY

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Kafkatrax is a strident avant-garde project accumulated from three 12″ EPs released in the last few months. In this creative endeavor, Wolfgang Voigt restricted his sampling to one kick drum and a Kafka audiobook, somehow warping the words into fleeting harmonies, melodies, and unintelligble vocals. The result is thoroughly disturbing, but totally groundbreaking techno. The ‘Mehrfachkünstler’ [...]

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‘The Readymades’

Friday, October 21, 2011

John Holten’s ‘The Readymades’ has been a silent companion during the last 6 weeks and the back-and-forth 6000 kms travelled during that time. Nevertheless, it was not until recently arriving in Paris airport, city where coincidentally the novel begins, that we started a proper and pleasurable conversation.
The novel takes upon the story of John Holten, [...]

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VIRGINS, HERMAPHRODITES AND COLLEGE GRADUATES

Friday, October 7, 2011

It’s been almost 10 years since Jeffrey Eugenides wrote Middlesex. Finally his new novel was published, called The Marriage Plot (I haven’t read it yet). The protagonists are college graduates this time – which doesn’t mean it will be less interesting than his previous novels, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex. There’s hardly a writer that [...]

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Michel

Thursday, September 29, 2011

So, I finally got around to reading Houellebecq. All the hip kids, you see, were talking about it.
These books are pretty savage. James Wood points out that Michel Houellebecq ‘has the nihilist’s power to stain the fabric of life so utterly that most other contemporary writers seem by comparison sentimental and untruthful’. But I’m not [...]

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Lydia

Friday, September 16, 2011

Here is a little story from Lydia Davis to see out your week.
Interesting
My friend is interesting but he is not in his apartment.
Their conversation is interesting but they are speaking a language I do not understand.
They are both reputed to be interesting people and so I’m sure their conversation is interesting, but they are speaking [...]

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LAST CHANCE: MONO.ARCHIV #01

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

There are less than 10 of our limited edition box sets left, so hurry up and get it!
mono.archiv #01 – containing issues mono.kultur #1 to 15, a whopping 14 of which are out of print:
Carsten Nicolai
Frank Leder
Nine Inch Nails
Zeruya Shalev
M. Cattelan, M. Gioni, A. Subotnick
François Ozon
Matias Faldbakken
Wolfgang Voigt
[...]

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