John McWhinnie@Glenn Horowitz Bookseller through Oct. 13 on Manhattan's Upper East Side -- comes as something of a surprise. Their work is not high on the list of swank art collectors. Hell, I'd be surprised if it's on the list at all. And I don't think McWhinnie's Peter Plagens said to me about a Nelson Algren "Flypaper," and they published it in 1967 under their Beach Books imprint.) So this show may be regarded as an unspoken homage to Mustill. He's the ghost in their machine. This is not to say the furious accomplishment of the "2001" … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2007
Hustlers’ Paradise
"Nelson Algren's Last Night!" Made by Warren Leming and Carmine Cervi, it's a Chicago: City on the Make(from the introduction to the 1961 edition dedicated to Joan Baez) Meanwhile, per World Can't Wait: Today a belligerent President Bush comes to the United Nations to impress upon the world that the U.S. is in the Middle East to stay, that the war on terror will be endless, and to threaten a murderous war on Iran. "That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn or be forced to accept." If you don't show your resistance, it … [Read more...]
Have You Heard This One Before?
Laugh track included: Via … [Read more...]
Just So You Know, in Case You Didn’t
Paul Krugman's The Sunni Genocide, December 8, 2005. Lede: Now that Harold Pinter has given his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he has also provided us with cover to post what may be the most incredible item -- truly the hardest to believe -- we've ever put up. It's not only about genocide, which we've written about before, it's about "the coming genocide of the Sunnis in Iraq," to quote a friend of ours, which will be committed by American proxies for a U.S. regime secretly bent on mass murder. Hed: Hidden in Plain Sight, on December 20, … [Read more...]
‘Our Palace Press’
Jay Rosen lays it out. … [Read more...]
Orwellian Zombies All
The jingoism implicit in daily life taints everything we say, let alone what we do. To use my friend Bill Osborne's term, we are all "Orwellian zombies." This includes even the most sincere opponents of the BnnRpbiChris Hedges, a former war correspondent. His loathing of war in general and the Iraq war in particular expressed by two of his books -- "What Every Person Should Know About War" -- would seem to place him above reproach. Yet he, too, can't be excluded from the ranks of Orwellian zombies. His latest column, … [Read more...]
Still Cookin’
Poetry as Insurgent Art: I am signaling you through the flames. The North Pole is not where it used to be. Manifest Destiny is no longer manifest. Civilization self-destructs. The goddess Nemesis is knocking at the door... What are poets for in such an age? What is the use of poetry? ... The master class starts wars. The lower classes fight it. Governments lie. The voice of the government is often not the voice of the people. … [Read more...]