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.
Sharon Olds
Paper Clip is a weekly compilation of online articles, artifacts and other—old, new, and sometimes BOMB-related.
Part of the Paper Clip series.
1. Artist David Wojnarowicz’s journals, dating 1971 through 1991, are now available at the New York University’s Fales Library website.
2. An essay by JW McCormack at The American Reader makes the case for a film adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666.
3. Henry Miller’s famous Bathroom Monologue, filmed by SNL writer Tom Schiller in 1975.
The Big Sur Brooklyn Bridge, a festival in Miller’s honor, runs through May 19 in Williamsburg.
4. Kenneth Goldsmith on the history of UbuWeb, cease-and-desists, and its beginnings in intermedia poetry.
5. An interview with Chris Marker’s Second Life avatar, Sergei Murasaki, from Criterion’s Current blog.
A tour of Chris Marker’s Second Life island, Ouvroir, directed by photographer and filmmaker Michel Favre: Parts one, two, and three.
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.
Sharon Olds