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I was picked up late one night at the metro airport in Romulus after a ten-hour flight by an emissary of the institution, a man with extremely large hands and knuckles and yet with the softest of voices, as he spoke to me about the city’s peculiar history. He wore a black or navy blue chauffeur’s cap with a polished brim. He drove like he was above the law, his frame filling the front seat, with a recklessness that approached something more like a parody of driving.
Had the Commander sent him, or was I on my own now?
An excerpt from Psycho Femmes II, a new novel from Nicholas Rombes.
If The Velvet Underground was the first “alternative” rock band, Nico—the Andy Warhol Superstar and original art house chanteuse most famous for her contributions to 1967’s The Velvet Underground & Nico, the band’s debut—was the first alternative to alternative music. Warhol essentially imposed the German supermodel on the band, as though she were an art installation. The result, arguably, was the advent of contemporary pop culture.
JJ Brine and Cat Marnell interview the musician Lutz Graf-Ulbrich about his relationship with The Velvet Underground’s Nico.
When the author met her husband-to-be, he did not even own a smartphone, but with personal technological advances came distraction, fame, and ultimately, divorce. Told through ironic fragments of 140 characters, this Twitter-inspired ‘auto-fiction’ protests everything that is wrong (or merely confusing) in modern life, and probes the deeper motives for living a life primarily online. At times sad, lacklustre and annoyed, the memoir nevertheless displays genuine compassion for its antagonist, and for the human desire to escape reality (however promising), and champion illusions.
Presenting our Books of the Year 2017.
The pieces I am sending come from a book-length collage poem assembled from dozens of cut-up New Yorkers (and a few New York magazines and sundries)
In the 18th edition of The Poem Brut series, new poetry by Olga Moskvina.
There is a logic that is nowadays called “classical logic”. It is based on a number of assumptions, including the assumption that a domain of individuals the language of classical logic is used to talk about is never empty, and that every sentence is either true or false but not neither true nor false nor both true and false in a given situation. Historically, this logic is rather young and goes back to work by George Boole and Gottlob Frege in the second half of the 19th century. The first textbook on classical first-order logic appeared in 1927. It may be debated whether the classicality of what is now called “classical logic” is a historical coincidence or whether classical logic is classical for some deeper reasons.
Continuing the End Times series, Richard Marshall interviews Heinrich Wansing.
My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice of writing literary criticism is pretty much what it always has been. And there has always been a strong connection between being a writer—I feel as though I know what it feels like inside and I can say I’ve experienced similar problems and solutions from the inside. And I think that’s a great advantage as a critic, because you know what the writer is feeling.
Louis Klee interviews C.K. Stead.
Inside the Castle is the title of a book I’ll never write that takes place inside the titular castle from Kafka’s book. The book was going to address my perception that the castle was just a place like any other, continuous with the fabric we traverse, and that it had no mythical distinction from the rest of the village where K is loitering around. So in this way it analogised my perspective on books, that they were contemporaneous continuations of the physical environment, and that their contents were meant to be seen as active word objects, not depictions.
Joseph Schreiber interviews John Trefry.
12 Oct
A diary is a documented confession of all your flaws, insecurities and irregularities.
Apart from anything else, a diary is needed so you don’t burden anyone with your presence.
I don’t want to feel like a burden. I want to feel that I’m being adored.
By Odarka Bilokon.
Out of all of our fantasies, there are a few that come back again and again. They seem to be infinitely appealing. One of the greats is the paradise island; the personal idyll and the escape required to get there. We all desire escape. Most of us, in some way, also like boats. Inherent in the boat is escape. So we must obtain, or ideally, make the boat. Inherent in the building of a boat is the design of your escape. So too, we must build our lives around this design; a life in which we can build the boat.
By John-Paul Burns.
Three handwritten letters titled
Who I was,
Who I am,
Who I will be
In the 17th edition of The Poem Brut series, new poetry by Julia Schuster.