君子不器
Stitch Bitch: the patchwork girl I expect there are some of you who still think I am Shelley Jackson, author of a hypertext about an imaginary monster, the patchwork girl Mary Shelley made after her first-born ran amok. No, I am the monster herself, and it is Shelley Jackson who is imaginary, or so it…
BOMB Magazine — Great Expectations by Kathy Acker I Recall My Childhood | Kathy Acker My father’s name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit that Pip. So I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as…
About Issa, Japanese Haiku Poet “He was born in the little village of Kashiwabara in the mountains of Japan’s Shinano Province on the fifth day of Fifth Month, 1763: June 15 on the Western calendar. He died in the same village on the 19th of Eleventh Month in the old Japanese calendar year that corresponds…
“Mississippi History” By Richard Ford, November 29, 2015
“God Knows, Few of Us Are Strangers to Moral Ambiguity”: Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice With his seventh novel, Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon brings his readers back to late 1960s California for the third time–though the story is set in 1970. As with The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) and Vineland (1990), Pynchon is again exploring…
The bite of the brown recluse spider is upsetting, if not sometimes fatal to deadly, to some so toxic to such an umteenth and darkly chimerical degree that this arachnidal prick–even at dosages too tiny to see with the proverbial or empirical naked eye–oh my, well, it can blot your anatomical/spiritual sun (and we all…
LINK: Stuart Elden: Michel – Berfrois