I’m a collector. It’s been that way as long as I can remember. Primarily of books, films and music, but occasionally the interest veers off into infrequent territories. Most often I find this during especially long film productions that require extensive scouting for props which leads to interests I might otherwise steer clear. But, anyway, […]
New band supposedly featuring members of Doomriders, Mind Eraser, and Rival Mob. Sounds Pagan Altar and Black Sabbath. Is good. Is just what the doctor ordered. Etc.
The “Get Into It” interviews find interesting people and asks them three questions about their interests. Ideally, this will have nothing to do with literature. Too often while bopping around the louche, litmag web haunts, it can feel like a claustrophobic room of monomaniacal chatbots. “Get Into It” should serve as a reminder that we […]
Nine of our favorite things from the past seven days. Where she stops, nobody knows. First, a Wittgenstein quote, from On Certainty: “I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again ‘I know that that’s a tree’, pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, […]
The Instructions, by Adam Levin (of Chicago novelist fame, not Adam Levine of Moron 5 fame), is the bibliophile’s book. But I’ll get to that later. First, business: On my way to work this morning, I noticed a woman on the train de-purse her e-reader. A fairly typical early-morning L ritual. Based on empirical evidence, it seems […]
