February 2011
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“Cézanne is massively sure, no doubt, that his painting can make a connection...”
– T J Clark
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That said
Not to mention Eula Biss’s incredible / genre-bending collection Notes from No Man’s Land. Talk about mastery…
mcnallyjackson:
Here are some recent memoirs (or near-memoirs) that might change Genzlinger’s mind:
Elif Batuman’s The Possessed
Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage mostly counts
The last chapter of Tom Bissell’s Extra Lives
The forthcoming...
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“Fear is isolating for those who fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a...”
– Eula Biss
Man, I forget how good she is sometimes.
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“Frank O’Hara has said, “I am mainly preoccupied with the world as I experience...”
– Ian Epstein
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Turning Point
hinius:
A mile from Zhang Jiang High Technology Park, Shanghai, 2007
I should be writing to tell you all about 2010 (screw 2011!), but I’m knee-deep in my scanning and planning my next photographic expedition. To tide you over till next week (I promise), here’s an article I wrote for last year’s fLIP magazine about a particular turning point in my photographic life.
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“Why don’t people with a special taste for casinos also love dadaist...”
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“mostly my skepticism stemmed from the suspicion that the World Wide Web wasn’t,...”
– John R. MacArthur
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“Wherever you go on the base, you’re eminently shootable—a fantastic sniper...”
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“Sebald recounts how the German population, after the end of WWII, would ride the...”
– Richard Mosee on W. G. Sebald
“It’s interesting, then, that, in both instances—in both Iraq and in...”
– Richard Mosse
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“The architecture of state power and the architecture of first world residences...”
– Jeffrey Inaba
stephenrettger:
There is a cultural elite, in America, which tries its utmost to manipulate the habits and tastes of consumers. It consists of the corporations who sell nearly everything with the possible exception of classical music and conceptual arts, and while its methods include some of the publicity-driven hype that finds its way into newspapers, magazines and other traditional media, its...