1. Attention Chicagoans! The summer’s most literate and budget-friendly event is this weekend with the Newberry Library’s annual book fair. Use paper money to buy paper books, read those books, scribble notes in the margins, and then donate them back to Newberry so some other lucky reader can buy them at next year’s book fair. […]
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 […]
Meet my internet crush. He is a stack of books. Unless my childhood diary lies I definitely knew about his work by 2002, a year after Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish came out. My notebooks from this year and throughout high school are a swirl of hearts and his words. Sadism was named after the Marquis de […]
Fascination with a failed love is a surgical experience. Some chemical tide turns and the tedium of pulling the stitches apart is irresistible. That something so ineffable could be made up of the kinds of things one can list and turn over and stack and compare begs vivisection in that state of mind. If the […]
Roxanne Carter is bedecked with an MFA from Brown and a PhD from the University of Denver, but the reason I invoke these qualifications is because it is she who brings the dazzle to what she touches. Her words are their own rhythm. When she starts she does not stop. When she stops you can […]
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