As president Bill Pullman boisterously declared in Independence Day, The Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to […]
A Christmas gift card was burning a Criterion-sized hole in Joshua Covell‘s pocket. The consensus among Anobium is that, should you find yourself in Mr. Covell’s situation, you best choose Fritz Lang’s M. Or else. From Anobium Editor Benjamin Van Loon: Fearing the onset of hoarder-dom, have you emptied your garage in a post-holiday purge? […]
The Anobium staff is proud to present what 2012 meant to us in terms of music, film, and literature. BENJAMIN VAN LOON Top 5 Albums 1. Gaza: No Absolutes in Human Suffering [2012] – A soundtrack for universal entropy. Heavy and dark as the Caspian Sea. 2. Old Man Gloom: No [2012] – I waited something like 10 […]
We want you to come to this to buy our shit! (And maybe shit from some other people, too.) Chicago Writers House presents, in conjunction with Curbside Splendor Publishing and The Chicagoan: A POP-UP BOOK FAIR on Sunday December 9, 2012 at The Empty Bottle (1035 N. Western Ave.) 2pm to 7pm FREE with an […]
Jacob Singer: The fourth section of this novel worked me over. What I mean by thatis I felt like a piece of dough being worked in a repetitivemotion—except it wasn’t physical at all –it was all mind and soul.Rape, anal rape, murder, unrecognizable corpses found by a road, etc.Bolaño isn’t sentimental about how death looks. […]
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