Where on the spectrum of loyalty and betrayal does song begin? And where does it end? I think each writer has to decide this over and over.
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Sharon Olds
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- Jan Lauwers by Elizabeth LeCompte
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- Drawings from 21 Love Poems and The Fried Tale (London Zoo) by Caroline Bergvall
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Artists on Artists
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- Inner Views, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Studio Museum in Harlem by Patricia Spears Jones
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- The Books’s The Way Out by Peter Moysaenko
- Endless Boogie’s Full House Head by Clinton Krute
- Josiah McElheny’s The Light Club and A Prism by Sabine Russ
- Justin Spring’s Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Jason Bauman
- Frederic Tuten’s Self Portraits: Fictions by Thomas Bolt
- The Art of McSweeney’s by Paul W. Morris
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Jarvis Cocker, of Pulp, once told me:
“During my accident, I remember hanging from the window ledge and thinking, this is actually a dramatic situation, but it doesn’t seem dramatic. It was like my fingers were losing their grip, and I had to make a decision whether to allow myself to slip off or just let go. And I went, ‘One, two, three—let go.’ And then, bang. In a film, there’d have been good camera angles and music heightening the tension of the scene, but of course there wasn’t any of that, and it was actually a very mundane, pathetic thing that was happening.”
Curtis Mitchell, Centerfold.
Curtis Mitchell, Centerfold.
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Originally published in
BOMB 113,
Fall 2010
Featuring interviews with Charline Von Heyl, Fred Tomaselli, Mika Rottenberg, Thomas Hirschhorn, Adam Phillips, Charlie Smith, David Toop, and Jan Lauwers.
