When I think of Kate Durbin I think of Hollywood. Kept Women has the genius cadence of the Shining, a product of England’s EMI Elstress Studios and an aerial shot of Mount Hood’s Timberline Lodge: not Hollywood, a hollow. Kept Women is Durbin’s new chapbook from Insert Blanc Press. A tour of a renowned Los […]
Highly caffeinated cultural critique: Get the Baffler ware at the Harvard Book Store. She blinded me with library science! $ Young Money Poetry $: a reported ~11 copies left of Illuminati Girl Gang volume two – get on it! Pregame for Valentine’s Day with the Norman Rockwell of Cheesecake: Gil Elvgren’s Private Stock is available […]
This summer I discovered the work of Melissa Doherty. Immediately taken with the quality and her approach to her work, I began a conversation with her that has spanned many months. Here is the conversation itself: GDT: Can you tell me a little about yourself? What was life like growing up? What are some of […]
Allons-y, readers! Anobium is here to help you vanquish 2012 with some insight into your year end party plans: Nitrate Dreams: for those who intend to turn down the lights to better facilitate mischief, maybe the Thrill Kill Kult albums are starting to skip. Start up any of collagist maitresse Colette Saint Yves’ 8tracks playlists […]
Book count for 2012: 64. See below for list. Yes, 64 is quite a fall from last year’s count of 100+, but page for page, I read a lot more this year than I have in years past. Books like Infinite Jest, 2666, Freedom, The Instructions, and the various presidential biographies – these took major […]
