Establishing Shot: An Interview with Steve Erickson by Joshua Cohen Steve Erickson’s many novels read as if written for the readership of other worlds—worlds not different from ours so much as parallel, the real turned upside-down, inside-out, and yet centered, inevitably, around Los Angeles. With Zeroville, Erickson gives us his tightest establishing shot yet. |
Blue-Eyed Devil: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight by David Hunter On the surface, Blue-Eyed Devil: A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America seems like a "let's get to know the neighbors" punk-rock companion piece to Paul Barrett's American Islam. If that doesn't quite describe it, it's because Michael Muhammad Knight has little interest in finding the familiar in the exotic, preferring instead to make the ordinary seem strange. |
Ken Foster: From Literary Impressario to Pit Bull Advocate by Suzanne Dottino . . . most people don't know what a pit bull is and they certainly don't have any idea of their history |
Foreign Encounters: Dalkey Archive Press by Olena Jennings ...the act of translation itself should be subversive |
Notes from the Undercard by John Reed I was afraid of coming off like a fool, which is why I took notes in the first place, and why, probably I was invited to participate: comic relief |
Thick as Thieves: An Interview with Steve Geng by Ruchi Mital Meeting with Steve Geng at the Moonstruck Diner in Chelsea, I am struck by how quickly he laughs at himself and the long silences his sister, Veronica, brings to our table as Steve remembers losing her. Thick as Thieves is Steve's memoir, and his tribute to Veronica. |
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WHOSE WORLD IS THIS? by Lee B. Montgomery (University of Iowa Press, Sept 2007) "It began innocently enough. A man from El Salvador was tortured by fire. A man from Haiti fell from the sky |
DESERT GOTHIC by Don Waters (University of Iowa Press, Sept 2007) "The dealer doesn’t have a girlfriend, no kids, divorced once with a restraining order stapled to it. He lives alone in Nana’s pink stucco house and mostly watches a lot of TV. Paint peels from the orange walls in long fine stripes; when he walks through the house he’s reminded of candy canes. Over the past decade his habit has enlarged to a pack and a half a day." |
Inspired Periphery: A Neurologically Diverse Curation by Michael Conforti League Artists Natural Design (LAND) was recently represented at the Outsider Art Fair and beginning March 1st, will be holding its own gallery exhibition, Under the Influence: Drawing Inspiration from the Periphery. The salon-style exhibition will run until April 16th and hopes to open a dialogue by blurring the lines between work created by the neurologically diverse, and the work of "artists that draw inspiration from their unique sensibilities." |
KGB Radio Hour with Mark Jacobson -June, 2008 KGB Bar, NYC KGB Bar Radio Hour - June 2008Listen to this PodcastKGB Radio Hour: NYC's only live radio show with live drinking Start: Jun 4 2008 - 7:00pm End: Jun 4 2008 - 9:00pm KGB Radio Hour: NYC's only live radio show with live drinking. This month's guests include Ned Sublette talking about his new book "The World That Made New Orleans". Ned will also sing and play some numbers from his vast catalog. Also: KGB Radio Hour stalwart Jeff Sharlet will discuss his new magnum opus "The Family" concerning the invisible empire of high-end religious fundamentalism's connection to mainstream power. Also talking: The Dean, Robert Christgau and the sage-like Issac Schonfeld. Your genial host, Mark Jacobson. |
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