I. The World’s Most Celebrated Hand-Job Since 1954, thousands have gather to celebrate Bloomsday, the epic tribute to Joyce’s Ulysses. The devout make the pilgrimage to Dublin – no bargain vacation, these days – to retrace the crisscrossing paths of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom in real-time, over the course of an entire day. Even […]
Thoughts in response to Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks: —Oliver Sacks is a regular New Yorker contributor, and though I was peripherally familiar with some of his work, I hadn’t been directly exposed to it until I read his essay “Altered States” in the August 27, 2012 issue of the New Yorker. In it, Sacks discusses […]
Every Friday, the Anobium web staff provides some ideas for what to do with that paycheck in this new segment, “Commerce in Shall.” The title comes from Catherine Wagner’s poem “Macular Hole,” which can be heard here and is available from Fence. In honor of that ubiquitous, American, shady shopping holiday, this week’s Commerce in […]
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 […]
Thanks to the internet, my reading life now fields a smooth, even intensity. But when reading came only in intense little apertures in the big dark – that was thrilling. And so many molten tendrils have come off Dennis Cooper that he’s melted the night right out of me. He made me a serious lover […]
