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David Green Dead Body (2016)
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Matthew Day Jackson Me dead at 38 (2009)
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Unknown A Dead Child (17th century)
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Jan van Oost Black Widow (1994)
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Martin Abasi Phiri Casket II (1995)
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Paul Fryer Various (2010 – 2012)
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Shen Shaomin Fidel Castro (2011)
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Jeremy Millar Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man (The Willows) (2011)
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Anonymous The Impossibility of David Bowie being Dead in the Minds of the Living (2019)
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Hyman Bloom Female Corpse, Back View (1947)
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Marlene Dumas Various (2004 – 2009)
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Walter Scheler Dying, Dead (2014)
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Tadeusz Kantor The Dead Class (1975)
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Francesca Woodman Swan Song (2010)
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Rattle in the form of a bloated hanging corpse (A.D. 650–850)
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Jan Andersen Dead Teenagers (2010 – 2016)
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Teresa Margolles Plancha (2010)
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Maurizio Cattelan Is There Life Before Death? (2010)
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Debbie Harry MoCA Annual Gala Performance (2017)
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Eugène Delacroix Liberty Leading the People (detail, 1830)
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Puppies Puppies Untitled (portrait of the artist with no brain) (portrait of the artist after brain surgery) (Sylar (Zachary Quinto) brutally kills Isaac Mendez) (Heroes tv show prop) (Duane Hanson-murdered artist) (2017)
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Sanford Biggers Laocoon (2018)
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Andra Ursuta Various (2012)
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Nujoom Alghanem Passage (2019)
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Nico Weber Five Meditations on Death (2019)
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5 Bodies That Refused to Rot
Saint Betina Zita (died 1272)
Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov (died 1927)
‘La Doncella’ (died 1418)
Lady Xin Zhui (died 163 BCE)
Saint Catherine Laboure (died 1876)
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Michael Zavros Phoebe is dead/McQueen (2010)
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Kyotaro Hakamata Holding Heads (2012)
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Sally Mann The Body Farm (2000 – 2001)
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Yan Pei-Ming Gadhafi’s Corpse (2012)
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Julien Ceccaldi Hooded Corpse (2018)
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IRWIN Corpse of Art (2003)
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Paweł Althamer Homage to Sylwia (2011)
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Edward Kienholz Five Car Stud (1969 – 1972)
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Catalin Badarau Consumerism (2014)
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Berlinde De Bruyckere Various (2018 – 2019)
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Zbigniew Libera Intimate Rites (1984)
‘Zbigniew Libera was active with Kultura Zrzuty (Pitch-In Culture) in Łódż, and drew inspiration from their so-called private and embarrassing art. These ideas were incorporated into Obrzędy Intymne (Intimate Rites), a record of the 24-year-old artist looking after his dying grandmother. Her illness required round-the-clock care – she needed to be fed, changed and washed. Death, as depicted in the film, is somehow shameful, painful and hidden away. Via the mediation of the camera, Libera allows the audience to enter this intimate world as voyeurs.’
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Goran Despotovski The Fate and the Absence of an Individual (2018)
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p.s. RIP Michael Silverblatt. That’s a very sad, tough one. ** Carsten, I think if someone’s response to their work was dislike and the question ‘why?’ that would interest them. They were pretty brainy. They might ask you ‘why not?’ in return. The response time with publishers is all over the place, from quickly all the way to never. It’s really hard to predict in my experience. We got the usual rain and drear this weekend with a maybe forty minute spate of snow. Very light snow, but still. ** jay, I hope you had a very romantic VDay! ** kenley, Yes, and with a name like i_luv_croissant the vulnerability is fully on show. I don’t know of IHoB, but I don’t eat burgers/meat so it could have easily slipped by me. Okay, so … how do you think the bf’s parents found you? If they weren’t delighted and cowed then they’re not worth worrying about. ** Bill, I have seen at least one Schwarzkogler photo in a slave profile. Of a mummification-wanting lad, duh. That shirt is what earned him his spot in that post. ** Thom, Hi, Thom! Welcome, and thank you a lot for coming in here. Cool that you knew ‘PGL’ came from Michael Quercio’s band. It was also the title of a 60s psych song, but I didn’t know that at the time. I was in LA during the paisly underground, and it was big fun to be around. At one time I was working on a psychedelic rock musical project with Michael Quercio, but he was too busy with Game Theory, and we never finished it. That is a score: the Gira. I don’t think I’ve seen it for sale online for less than $400. I’m obviously loving your reading material of the moment. I’m huge on the Nouveau Roman, as you probably know. If you ever find a copy of Robert Pinget’s ‘Fable’, I highly recommend it. Same here: people often assume I’m a total perv sleaze, but I’m just a quiet guy with a weird imagination. High five. All the best to you, and obviously please come back any time. ** Laura, HaRpEr’s playlist was the entirety of my Valentine Day celebration. The escorts probably often steal their photos, so who knows. Mariana Enríquez … have I read her? I don’t think so. I’ll check, and I will read her if I haven’t. I immediately wonder if her title isn’t taken from Gisele Vienne’s and my theater piece ‘This Is How You Will Disappear’. Aw, flowers, nice. Other than Harpers soundtrack, no observance. Just another day. Love back. ** Steve, Oops, but good timing on the doctor. No, I didn’t go to the Titanic thing. May still go. From what I can tell, it’s an immersive experience thing where you’re ‘on’ the Titanic before and after it sinks. I’m hoping it’s an amusement park kind of fun, but it could just be another one of the awful immersive ‘experiences’ that plague warehouse spaces everywhere these days. ** Dominik, Hi!!! You’ve surfaced! Um, yes, err, Zac is actually pretty meticulous and slow in a way that is sometimes hard to work with given my energy bursts, but it’s very well worth it, obviously. The script revision is basically finished. I just have to devise the right setting for one scene that is otherwise already written. Well, seemingly you could try to pursue the dream job while simultaneously doing the ‘boring’ work? No? But I’m rather multitask-y, so I don’t know. So great to see and talk with you! Love is an avid user of psychedelics so if he seems like he’s not interested in you that’s why, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Dubai! I imagine nothing but sunlight with short nighttime intermissions. I don’t know that Clarke film. Huh. I’ll head over to YouTube and look for it. Thanks, bud. ** Charalampos, Happy just beginning latter half of the month. I wonder how many people could say they were conceived on Valentines Day, but then I guess hardly any of them would know that. Hi from here. ** darbz (⊙ 0⊙ ), Best ‘Flunker’ reading situation ever. Cool: the forthcoming pix. Your mom deserves that blame, word up. I’ll go watch the Xiu Xiu vid when I I’m through here. Nice, thank you, and I hope you got long, deep sleep. ** HaRpEr //, As I told Laura, your playlist constituted my entire Valentines Day occasioning. And it completely did the trick. Great work! Well, I think their thought is that their asses would then become the vortex of others’ desire. They talk a lot about ‘anal orgasms’, but I can’t say that I fully understand how that works. I never expect to have a brain alignment with Deleuze when I’m reading him. I just expect my brain to get a churning massage. Always go with what you’re excited to write. There’s always a good reason. Nice. Sickly energy sounds like a total positive, and I hope it is. ** Okay. Today the blog presents you with the fourth entry in its ‘Deads’ franchise. See you afterwards aka tomorrow.
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WOW about Michael, RIP… he had such a way of really understanding what a writer was going for with their personal voice. he would do this thing where he would eloquently explain what he thought a writer was doing, in great detail, and they’d just be like “yup, you got it”. i feel like he did that with you a couple times, i think i heard him do that to leonard cohen once lmao. i love his interviews. funny was just about to re-listen to the ep you did after period cuz i just re-read (this time it clicked as maybe my fave from the cycle? i always sorta understood its role in the cycle abstractly, but idk it really clicked this time as a self contained little structure…) was telling a friend who wanted to interview local songwriters/artists/etc to check out michael silverblatt…
cool stuff with michael quercio! the consumer fascinates me, gira uses language in a way where it doesnt feel like he’s trying to shock. he is taking the sentences and the subjects VERY seriously… also, will def get my hands on fable, idk if it will come thru the big book shops here but i’/ll keep my eyes on the used book sites…
some very moving stuff in todays post. some of those sally mann photos especially. also the dying, dead photo series is just… wow… will check out some of the video stuff too later.
Hey Dennis! de Bruyckere is amazing, as always. Was lucky enough to see some of her stuff in London recently and it totally freaked me out, it’s much more potent in 3-D. The 19th century art is great too, I love the Raft of the Medusa corpse that’s decapitated by the frame. Sooo cool… I definitely have a guilty ex-Christian thing for Depositions too, there’s always something kind of stirring about them. The Crucifixion of Christ is probably my equivalent to St. Sebastian for Mishima/Jarman, I remember being pretty hypnotised by it as a kid in church.
Valentine’s was mostly good. My bf got bad job news recently, so he was sort of on the warpath, but I’m in a weird mood so I mostly enjoyed it. And I’ve just started Murdoch’a “The Sea, The Sea”, which is realllllyyyy good, like Nabokov with a much more sadistic streak. Crazy it was so mainstream popular, it’s pretty vile (in a good way). I also just finished “Flesh” by Szalay, given that it’s the big Hungarian export recently, and it was alright-ish. Enjoyably unemotional and lean. Anyway, hope you’re good, adios!!!
yes!!! incorruptible saints!!! luv them so much!!! a lot of very beautiful and harrowing work. that biggers piece is REALLY striking+direct. mad respect. and the libera film is very human
his family was lovely! specifically his nana, with whom i had a nice talk about fiber arts and gillian welch and trains. thank god…my last serious ex’s parents seemed to think i was, like, a witch using nefarious transgender trickery to steal their precious baby boy away. yeesh
hmm….surely ihop/b has veg options nowadays…are you into diner breakfast? do they have american diner breakfast in paris? and in any case, hope your monday is swell! please do tell us what your week looks like!
Sad about the death of Silverblatt, did you know them personally? Im sorry if so.
Love dead things, and I LOVE silicon ( I think some of these are silicon sculptures)
One day I want to make a silicon sculpture. I dont know if you remember that time, when I was working on my script about the sexually abused boy obsessed with becoming an angel,
where i was obsessed with the idea of making a silicon sculpture of a “suicidal angel” splattered on the ground after jumping from a high rise building. Wings bent and all.
Im sure you know, unless im really bad at clarifying, which I can be, that my novel is about a maladjusted boy/young man who believes he is a corpse/dead body rotting on earth.
On that note, I think I came up with a good name for the book “Stray….something”
im thinking like, “Lost Stray” or “The stray” or some other word that compliments the word stray. “Dead stray”
I thought this was perfect, because the incident that the main character thinks “killed him” was the dog attack, and because he becomes so dysfunctional from a fucked up family + biological factors, he’s become this lost identity searching for something to make him feel “pure” in control and loved. Aka Oskar, and drugs, and the concept of becoming a violated art form when Oskar eventually becomes a provocative artist in NY.
Very introspective and literate today.
Tonight I promise I shall send the picture of my goth dreads + my art, i’ll do it through instagram.
On the second story of Flunker, is this sort’ve vaguely about/inspired by George? You said the brother’s name was Jay and i remember reading in your book or somewhere that that was his brothers name. Havent finished it yet. Have a good monday.
Where do Giraffes hide when there is a storm?
Update. Finished the short story
Stupid question I asked ha, like, it likely was obviously based on him.
I read somewhere you said his father stopped paying for his medication before..? That’s so awful.
I don’t know if I ever said this, but I remember after reading your book about George and then learning from interviews and books, pictures I just felt so terrible and sad thinking of it, so the second story was quite poignant. There was definitely a personal reason, I wont really elaborate or go in depth because I know thats a sensitive subject. I will say tho, its sad your website got taken down because I liked looking at his art.
Eating skittles have a good week. Take care of yourself friend, ive been doing longevity spells for you and some other people but I put a-lot of intent into yours.
P.s I’ll send those pictures tomorrow fr fr! I have been busy.
Hi!!
I have – and it’s so good to be here!
The Marlene Dumas and Jan Andersen pieces. 🖤
Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. I imagine that’s how it is to work with me too – I’m always very meticulous and take ages to reach a level of quality I’m satisfied with, no matter what I’m working on.
That sounds huge – that the script revision is finished apart from that single scene! Did you come up with the right setting for it? Or is it going to be a longer process?
Yeah, absolutely. I’ll keep on trying to charm publishers while taking on my usual projects, and we’ll see what happens.
Love pronounced dead on arrival, Od.
Kudos to Debbie Harry, there’s someone who continues to know how to put on a show.
Hey Dennis,
Been in a bit of recovery post-Valentines Day as my friend was making Cosmopolitans and they were a lot stronger than we realized… yesterday and today have mostly been spent in my room, either reading, listening to music, or watching videos on youtube like how to set up a home cloud server, using a pocket notebook effectively, or interesting applications that can run on a Steam Deck. I enjoy the new Charli album after a couple of listens. The first five tracks (from House to Chains of Love) is the best half, with a bit of a lull in the middle (though I still enjoy majority of them a fair bit), and then the last two tracks are pretty great too. Definitely not my favourite album by her, and I was hoping for a bit more of that darker sound that House had, but the blend of classical instrumentation with electronic is great, and a pretty interesting addition to her discography.
Fun(?) post. Was at a wake a few days ago — the first one with an ope casket in a while that ive been to — and the corporeal remains do seem to lack the human. Maybe it was just from the dress up and mortician’s work, or maybe there’s just some sort of wave/electrical thing that makes a corpse feel so distinctly non-human. Perhaps a soul is in fact a thing! I dont really think so but I wouldn’t be surprised if scientists discovered some sort of energy ala soundwaves that exists distinctly from the physical, that would basically be a soul. Like how electricity is like the scientific version of magic. I remember reading something about how below atoms and all of that, everything is just vibrations (and not like the pseudoscience medical stuff that i guess takes the complexity and runs with it as a simple blanket statement to sell a product). Perhaps in 100 years if we’re not in some sort of neo-feudal state where the christofascists billionaires have us enslaved to renting everywhere, we have a world where vibrations become like the backbone of everything (i guess they are with wifi and communications, but even things that seem completely sci-fi to us).
That one bit with Debbie Harry and eating off bodies reminds me of this one Marina Abromovic piece where people were eating food and drinking red liquid around a person. I know you detest her and I have no strong feelings about her, but there’s one specific photo with Lady Gaga that people are now exclaiming are a part of the Epstein files and evidence of cannibalism, and it’s so frustrating how everyone seems to be in a bit of a satanic panic now; random people i know are reposting pizzagate and Qanon stuff that are now centeralized on those files. As someone who fell down a conspiracy rabbit hole as a young child, and then subsequently became pretty astute to fact checking and having discernment to these things, I think that this is actually just muddying the waters of what is fact and what is fiction, whether for reasons that are not malicious, or to spread a Christian agenda and to confuse the population. I think the idea that there is blanket good and bad people is something that people never unlearn from childhood and religious indoctrination, and people can be doing immoral and vile things without it having to be comically evil or connected to Satan and demons. People who may appear good, or do very good things, can do bad. And those who seem off or strange or “demonic” may actually be good people. In fact I actually think it just creates a big bad to “fight” and other instead of thinking of the systemic reasons that have allowed people in power to do things like that. Here I know that people can read what I’m saying and understand, but trying to explain to people not so educated on these things has them become so reactionary and unwilling to accept that the evil is not some sort of demon or satanic thing, it’s the unchecked power that has been given. In fact the big thing that a lot of people are forgetting or not realizing is how so much of this is linked to capital and capitalism, how the path to power and success demands the abuse and use of those below. Nothing will be done either (at least in the US), and what’s worrying is that when all those involved realize that they are safe from retribution and consequences, I could imagine things just becoming far worse. It’s all so depressing and everyone is so angry and full of a desire to change things, but I fear that it will just set off another moral panic where the average person will be crucified for being strange or queer or an other, and the likes of Trump or Clinton or Musk will just go on being billionaires and oligarchs, pushing more infighting amongst the people as they gain more power.
I’m so sorry to hear about Silverblatt. I was only speaking about him and Bookworm to my friend; I was even listening to your episode from just around Period’s release when I was meeting you.
Also I emailed the Triskel, and I included your email in the message I sent them so they could potentially be getting onto you if they don’t get onto me.
@darbs, perhaps Neutered could work? To make ineffective, to remove a part, as well as playing alongside the word stray?
Your feed is triggering.
No one is forcing you to be here.
Hi Dennis.
I remember when I first came onto this blog and asked early on about Michael. I think on some level I always wanted to talk to him because he seemed like such a cool guy who knew everything. I was very addicted to Bookworm; I listened to it nonstop for most of last year. I think his most interesting discussion was with Harold Brodkey weirdly, if only because Brodkey kinda rubs up against Silverblatts politness. I know you two were close, so I really hope I don’t come across as too intrusive about it, but I really liked him and his work; he was just a very interesting and involving host, and there needs to be more people in the world like him, though he might have been too unique a presence for something like that.
I once posted a dream I had about bookworm to Reddit, and I will be revealing myself here by posting it, but you might find it funny. I dreamt he was interviewing Jeffrey Dahmer and the discussions went like this:
Dahmer:”It’s kind of a…postmodern parody of that kind of thing y’know…although I don’t think Amis would like that chuckles”
Silverblatt:”No no I completely understand…but, you see I studied under barth and, the way you talk about eating people…it sort of reminds me (and you can tell me if I’m wrong) of when Barth talked about the figure…of the muse…”
Dahmer:”Mmh yeah no I get it…no I mean…I’m not self reflexive like that when I’m making a person at home though, it’s more direct physical/social comedy…like that bit with the toenails in…”
Silverblatt:”The old fools?”
Dahmer:”Yes! The old fools, that’s a great book”
I forgot the rest.
(I accidentally posted my comment in progress, oh dear. Anyway, you get lots of hugs from me. I imagine it must be a hard time for you. I can only say that you and Michael mean a whole lot to me. I suppose that’s all I can really say.)
Lots of fine pieces today, Dennis. I’d go to a Debbie Harry MoCA gala; have you been? I’m more familiar with Shen Shaomin’s earlier work. I was guessing that Castro piece came from Peng Yu. Maybe there’s a factory in China cranking out these realistic old world leader figures.
Sorry to hear about Michael Silverblatt.
Good to hear there’s a mummification fetishizing lad out there with good taste in art.
Have you read any Katie Kitamura? I just finished her novel Audition, really enjoyed it. She talks a lot about performance in a theater/film context, which I can relate to even though I work in other forms. And she makes a point of resisting interpretation.
Bill
Man I’m so sorry to hear about Silverblatt. RIP indeed. I practically grew up with his show. Listening to Bookworm was a key part of my literary education as a youth. Michael was a patron saint of deep reading. One of those rare readers who matched the author’s level of investment & rigor & came up with beautiful insights. I know you guys were close, so I’m very sorry for your loss. The airwaves that still tend to matters of mind & soul just became a lot poorer.
And quite a post up there today. As someone who’s told on a regular basis that their poetry is deeply death-haunted (which I won’t deny) I’ll always appreciate work that doesn’t flinch. “Confusion is the truth” is your credo, no? Mine’s “no one is more alive than he who lives with death”, more or less.
I think you misunderstood my publishing question. I meant to ask about the time between a publisher officially accepting a work & its actual publication date. I got my acceptance email at the end of October last year & I’m just curious how long it takes till printing.
Michael. I’m so happy that I visited him with Jeff Jackson at his apartment in West Hollywood. At first, I was afraid to see him so sick, but he looked lovely in that state. He was aware we were there, and he knew it was us, but of course, the communication was minimal. But in the end, I’m so happy Jeff gave me that extra push in the right direction to visit him. Michael really helped me through the literary world. Of course, due to his extensive knowledge, he also got me the job at Book Soup. And him ha ving me on Bookworm. Me on Bookworm? What a great man of letters. There will never be another Michael Silverblatt. He’s not dead, you know, because what he represents will always be alive to me (and to other writers/poets as well).
Hey Dennis! My contribution to the “dead” theme. This 80-second short film I co-directed just premiered online today and is playing at Slamdance this weekend:
https://youtu.be/nqNrxE2Ce7k?si=5cOjz6iyH-Bi6Csr
RIP Michael Silverblatt (and Robert Duvall and Frederick Wiseman.) Had you been in touch with him lately?
My doctor says I have elevated cholesterol. He prescribed a new medication, and I have a follow-up visit for more bloodwork in March.
On a second listen, the new Morrissey album is godawful. If he’d been offered these D-tier indie pop backing tracks in the ’80s, he would’ve hated them. His song about his childhood love of animals is sentimental bullshit.
At the risk of sounding like Alex Jones, Pizzagate and QAnon must have been deliberate misinformation exercises. If you drop a small amount of the truth but bury it amidst loads of “Lady Gaga Illuminati confirmed” nonsense, you can more effectively conceal it. The conspiracy theorists have such a bafflingly literal interpretation of strange or dark art.
Hello. ‘Anal orgasms’, my guess is that’s about the g spot?
Thank you about the playlist! I love making themed playlists like that.
Yeah, I think the poem is sickly in a good way. It’s a piece which takes a lot out of me to write but that I’ve been pulled towards somehow, like I need to write it. It’s as if I’ve written it 1000 times because I have but just haven’t gotten it right (it’s contains elements of the book I’m going to write next, however far away that’ll be). But now I’ve just intensely ‘given up the ghost’ and have been more blunt and reckless than I’ve ever been and am also finding this framework that I’m excited about. It’s not really depicting the same stuff as the next book, just working with what I reckon will be similar structural stuff and themes which means that I’ll be happy to put it into the world somehow.
My apprehension was that I was writing it all very feverishly, and I often find that things I’ve written in that state are only interesting to me and nobody else. And I think anything cathartic doesn’t impress me because it only turns out to be momentary. Luckily I’ve reached a slower, pickier, perfectionist stage.
Silverblatt was a great indeed. I can think of no other great curator of taste willing to give a platform to interesting writers currently living, maybe I’m wrong. It feels so unfortunate that the ‘great readers’ are a dying breed. Those kinds of supporters of writers who have read more than it seems possible for anyone to have read are so necessary and vital.
Hey Dennis – Nice entry in the Deads posts. That final mysterious series of photos are what I keep coming back to.
Heard about the news about Michael’s death this morning. I’ve been sitting with the sadness all day. Feels like a hard undigested lump in my chest. His friend Alan told me the end was peaceful, so that’s something.
I know how close you were with him and how much he loved you and admired your work. Words fail here. Thinking of you, my friend.
RIP Michael Silverblatt. Was just listening to the Sontag Bookworms episode last month. Thank you for the congrats and Valentines! My V-Day was a partial success because I was able to disambiguate my something into a friendship, which is always a win. My romantic endevaours remain comically unsuccessful, but that’s ok when weighed against a friendship began in earnest. I like today’s post; been feeling very moody of late and it’s helpful to think of the incomprehensibility of Bowie being gone.
Just had a nice moment with my wonderful roommate where he came to my side of the room and looked expectantly because he thought I said something, but I had my headphones on and thought he was saying something that I’d missed and smiled blankly, and so we were just smiling at each other, each waiting for the other to restate what he had just said, and realised simultaneously that we were smiling for no reason and this made us smile even more. It’s odd that, temperature preferences aside, I’ve had no real differences with him almost two years in. What a thoroughly nice guy.
hey Dennis!
very sad to hear about Michael, seemed like such a good one. R.I.P.
anyway, excellent corpses… =-x i wonder did Libera’s gran agree to be filmed? i don’t want to watch the thing w/o knowing for sure, so i suppose i’ll just go look it up and stuff. got some p horrid memories of my abuela being ‘looked after’ by men in ways which violated her modesty and it’s like… bruh. takes quite a piece of work to ‘love’ someone against their will like that. hopefully that other lady was cool w it tho.
the dead teenagers were v romantic! and like tender somehow. in utero. the dying/dead project had to have a German name attached to it, fucked up as it is to say it. now, Gaddafi would have kicked it all over again if only he could have seen himself looking that way in the end, fiction or reality, he was always so slinky in life. but anyway, p bittersweet what the human body can and can’t give away in isolation. ofc dead bodies are v isolated, ultimately so i’d say, unless you’re idk Heathcliff digging up his girl who still looks snatched etc.
quite looking forward to your take on Mariana Enríquez! let’s see, Cómo Desaparecer Completamente is from 2004, yours and Giselle’s piece (which i’d have loved to see btw, has it been recorded or anything?) is from 2010? might be wrong, correct me if so. so far i don’t see v much in common unless a certain someone is dead in the book. but there’s that Radiohead song from Kid A, i sort of assumed she might have borrowed the title.
her main character is def weird, but i’ve yet to decide in which direction. like, he doesn’t sound like a kid, which he is, and thus far he’s a bit impenetrable even when he cries or whatever. i’m just not deep enough into the story to know whether that’s by design. but i’m already quite invested in the jawless sister tho, maybe bc so far she’s narratively dehumanised to the max, but the memory of her hotter days is almost glazing. let’s see what happens.
oh! i finally, fiiiiinally got your Dream Police in the post, took fucking ages but now it’s here i’m like gimme and man, i like, really enjoy you or smth. i feel sort of challenged obvi, but i also feel both understood and understanding, which goes p hard. so thank you for writing very well, basically <3
did i ever tell you i almost became a published poet in my teens? this Spanish guy who is good but also bad bc he churns out books like churros used to be friends w my parents and he both liked and didn’t understand the thing i wrote between ages 15 and 17, sort of proposed to take me as a pet but i wasn’t into that so there went my enfant terrible career or whatever. =D
p weird when i read those poems now, which isn’t often but back then it was mostly all vision and i can’t really do that anymore. whenever i write poetry now, it like, crawls. i think it’s my v out of reach muse who like magnetised me to the ground and stuff. and then specificities life, obvi.
anyway, the black, car, the black road, a voice deeper than his own, what a pleasure to read. ^_^
how’s the script?
<3
Hi Dennis,
Just dropping in to say my heart is with you right now, I know you and Michael Silverblatt were friends. 🖤 🖤
Much love,
James