Category: picks

  • Zach Barocas, contributor

    Suggested Reading How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life, by John Fahey Aversions, poems by Devin Johnston Kitaj: Pictures and Converstions, by Julián Ríos Suggested Listening Open EP, Channels City Limits CD, Dujeous Rawar Style CD, the Eternals A Guess at the Riddle CD, David Grubbs Shake the Sheets CD, Ted Leo + The Pharmacists Glass […]

  • Peter O’Leary, contributor

    Suggested Reading Watership Down, by Richard Adams (HarperPerennial) Spell, by Dan Beachy-Quick (Ahsahta) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, by Chester Brown (Drawn & Quarterly) Nine, by Theodore Enslin (National Poetry Foundation) Lyrical Interference, by Norman Finkelstein (Spuyten Duyvil) Idoru, by William Gibson (Penguin) Some Mariners, by Stacy Syzmaszek (EtherDome) Pastorelles, by John Taggart (Flood Editions) […]

  • Jesse Pires, contributor

    Suggested Reading The Verificationist, by Donald Antrim Gilligan’s Wake, by Tom Carson Lipstick Traces, by Greil Marcus Essential Cinema, by Jonathan Rosenbaum Let’s Put the Future Behind Us, by Jack Womack Suggested Listening To Each…, A Certain Ratio Inventions and Dimensions, Herbie Hancock Louden Up, Now, !!! Black Unity, Pharoah Sanders Young Liars EP, TV […]

  • Drew Kunz, contributor

    Suggested Reading The Arab Apocalypse, by Etel Adnan Notebooks 1956-1978, by Danielle Collobert By the Sound, by Edward Dorn Horizons: The Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia, by Dick Higgins A Test of Solitude, by Emmanuel Hocquard Household Mechanics, by Sarah Mangold The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism, by Todd May Wet, by Mira Schor […]

  • Devin Johnston, contributor

    Suggested Reading Inside Out: An Autobiography, by Robert Adamson Music & Suicide, by Jeff Clark Fathom, by Andrew Joron

  • Jon Curley, contributor

    Suggested Reading “I AM”: The Selected Poetry of John Clare, edited by Jonathan Bate Gone, poems by Fanny Howe The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word & Life, by Fanny Howe The Midnight, by Susan Howe Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography & Politics, by David Levi-Strauss

  • Zach Barocas, contributor

    Suggested Reading A Tragic Honesty: the Life and Work of Richard Yates, by Blake Bailey Four Quartets, poems by T.S. Eliot Their Ancient Glittering Eyes, by Donald Hall The Garden in the Machine, by Scott MacDonald The Last Gentleman, by Walker Percy Suggested Listening The Complete Imperial Sessions CDs, Sonny Criss Right for the Time […]

  • Zach Barocas, contributor

    Suggested Reading The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin Three Interviews 2000|01, Jean-Luc Godard The Daylight Moon, poems by Les Murray The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy The Easter Parade, by Richard Yates Suggested Listening Looks at the Bird CD, Brokeback Crappin’ You Negative CD, Grifters State of the Tenor CDs, Joe Henderson The Omega Man […]

  • Zach Barocas, contributor

    Suggested Reading Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community, by Wendell Berry Film at Wit’s End, by Stan Brakhage Sadly, poems by William Fuller Exigent Futures, poems by Michael Heller Anarchy, poems by Mark Scroggins Suggested Listening Libra/Another Earth CD, Gary Bartz Feast of Wire CD, Calexico Dealin’ LP, Richard Davis Heavy!!! CD, Booker Ervin Hearts of […]