Archive for the ‘Literary Obsessions’ Category
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SB Publications Catalogue
I just realized I forgot to post this! We released the Winter 2011-2012 catalogue for SB Publications at the end of September. This season’s offerings include a text & photographic work from ReLit award winning poet Daniel Scott Tysdal, and a mixed media art book from Canadian culture jammer ýta. From within the art collective, we’re releasing a multimedia text ...
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“gray and affectionate”
As I shuttle back and forth between Vancouver and Toronto this summer, I’m also continuing my work with the unpublished correspondence of DADA artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven at the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, including letters to Djuna Barnes, Peggy Guggenheim, William Carlos Williams, and more. After a few months of working with the Baroness’ nearly one-hundred year-old ...
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A rare Stein is a rare stein is a rare stein
I love Gertrude Stein. After being introduced to Tender Buttons in the second year of my undergrad by Dr. Stephen Cain (to whom I owe my Steinian consciousness), my interest has been insatiable. While in New York City last October, I picked up a 1952 hardcover collection of her novelettes, Mrs. Reynolds & Five Earlier Novelettes with a Foreword by Lloyd ...
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Rare Prose by bp nichol
It’s refreshing to spend time with someone who has as much of a crippling book fetish as I do. My friend Max has known me for almost seven years now, and throughout that time he has learned extensively about my taste; the books that get me off, the editions of my dreams. As a graduation present, he sent me on ...
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“You’re so vain. You probably think this song is about you, don’t you?”
I wouldn’t usually quote Carly Simon, but I’ve had a long day. New Motor Queen City by Patricia Seamen and the people I love are keeping my spirits up and alive.
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MB DRO ROSHI
“What’s this? What’re the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not, really. It’s somebody else’s audience at the moment, and these nightly spectacles are an appreciable part of the darkside-hours life of the Rocket-capital. The chances for any paradox here, really, are less than you think.” Zak Smith, did it eat your soul too? | Starla ...
