The Vivian Maier exhibit at the Chicago History Museum, titled Vivian Maier’s Chicago, is contained in one gallery space, which feels small and restrained considering her stunning and extensive talent, her simple yet mysterious life, and the fact that her work was virtually unknown until it was discovered after her death. Though Vivian went viral in […]
It’s like reading a transcript with the journalist removed. Peter Hook (bassist from Joy Division and New Order), sharing, talking, engaging in a conversation with you, the reader, resulting in a strange sort of memoir, travelogue, that works well for the material at hand, somehow managing to demystify without demystifying how exactly the band formed, […]
–Give me, the one thing you can’t give / take me to the black lodge where you live -Anthrax Eli Roth’s Hemlock Grove—adapted from Brian McGreevy’s debut novel of the same name—is one more attempt to wring some psychosocial relevance out of the vampire-werewolf mythos (I’d say ‘one final attempt,’ but I lack the optimism). […]
…Or, why you need to know who Graham Tugwell is. I first learned about Graham Tugwell when I was putting together Anobium’s first volume (now sold out, suckers). All I knew at that point was that Tugwell was Irish and that the one story he sent me was so perfectly macabre that the most I […]
1. City Water Light & Power is the first novel by writer Matt Pine. Peripherally, it’s a coming-of-age novel, and, yes, ‘coming-of-age novel,’ in most cases, can bring to mind the image of an hours-long navel gaze. City Water Light & Power is not that. It’s sympathetic without being pandering. It’s nostalgic without being contrived. It’s attractive in a […]
