J.D. Salinger, perhaps the most reclusive and certainly one of the most influential authors of our time, passed away yesterday at the age of 91. His books Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenter / Seymour: An Introduction and of course The Catcher and the Rye have all become dear to me. [...]
Triple Canopy describes itself as working collectively “with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, and the ways people engage them, both online and in the world at large.” It was only recently that I discovered the online magazine, but was pleased with the current issue entitled [...]
illustration by Rob Pepper The Photographs Not Taken is a collection of short essays by photographers about “the times they didn’t use their camera.” A little while back I linked to Michael David Murphy‘s online project Unphotographable, which takes quite the same approach – textual accounts of “pictures missed.” The essays included in The Photographs [...]
Soccer ball/Decal (from “Lots”) © Tim Davis Allow Tim Davis to uh, well, explain a little about this perpetually enigmatic medium. Via the writing section on Tim’s website: Pow! About! What is it to be able to make a complete image instantaneously? It is Art After A.D.D. It is also the perfect Modern, mechanistic pathology: [...]
One thing us bloggers like to avoid is repetition, writing a new post that includes the same information already mentioned elsewhere. It’s taboo. But, this time I just couldn’t help myself. While reading Michael David Murphy’s 2point8, I came across this post in which Michael shared a short short story (from Short Short Stories) by [...]
