Fiction
(in no order)
Jack Skelley THE COMPLETE FEAR OF KATHY ACKER (Semiotext(e))
Sebastian Castillo SALMON (Shabby Doll House)
Alexandrine Ogundimu THE LONGEST SUMMER (CLASH Books)
Thomas Moore YOUR DREAMS (Amphetamine Sulphate)
Ava Hoffman LOVE POEMS/SMALLNESS STUDIES (Inside the Castle)
Jake Reber LEECH (11:11 Press)
Lucy K Shaw WOMAN WITH HAT (Shabby Doll House)
B.R. Yeager BURN YOU THE FUCK ALIVE (Apocalypse Party)
Osamu Dazai THE FLOWERS OF BUFFOONERY (New Directions)
Audrey Szasz COUNTERILLUMINATION (Amphetamine Sulphate)
Jane White QUARRY (Boilerhouse Press)
Grant Maierhofer EBB (Kernpunkt Press)
Martin Riker THE GUEST LECTURE (Grove Atlantic)
Diane Williams I HEAR YOU’RE RICH (Soho Press)
Jinnwoo POLO (Expat Press)
Charlene Elsby BEDLAM (Apocalypse Party)
Rikki Ducornet THE PLOTINUS (Coffee House Press)
Kenji Siratori & Ellie Chou PSYCHOPOMP 2023 (Lulu)
Carter St. Hogan ONE OF SEVERAL DESERTS (11:11 Press)
Chelsea Martin TELL ME I’M AN ARTIST (Soft Skull Press)
Lance Olsen ALWAYS CRASHING IN THE SAME CAR (Fiction Collective 2)
Katie Jean Shinkle THICK CITY (Bull City Press)
Madeline Cash EARTH ANGEL (CLASH Books)
Sam Pink FANTASTIC FICTIONS (Expat Press)
Poetry
(in no order)
Sara Nicholson APRIL (The Song Cave)
Robert Glück I, BOOMBOX (Roof Books)
Eileen Myles A ‘WORKING LIFE’ (Grove Atlantic)
Ange Dargent THE OTHERS LIVED AS ME (Kiddiepunk)
Bert Meyers BERT MEYERS: ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF AN AMERICAN MASTER (Pleiades Press)
Caroline Rayner THE MOAN WILDS (Shabby Doll House)
Fred Moten PERENNIAL FASHION PRESENCE FALLING (Wave Books)
in8 iĐ 1/ 4 I AM ĐNA (Calamari)
Richard Hell WHAT JUST HAPPENED (Winter Editions)
Sadé Powell WORDTOMYDEAD (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Doug Lang IN THE WORKS (Edge Books)
Kevin Holden PINK NOISE (Nightboat Books)
Nonfiction
(in no order)
Ágota Kristóf THE ILLITERATE (New Directions)
Michael Zryd HOLLIS FRAMPTON: NAVIGATING THE INFINITE CINEMA (Columbia University Press)
Craig Baldwin AVANT TO LIVE! (San Francisco Cinematheque)
Michael Silverblatt BOOKWORM: CONVERSATIONS WITH MICHAEL SILVERBLATT (The Song Cave)
Sean DeLear I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT: THE 1979 TEENAGE DIARIES OF SEAN DELEAR (Semiotext(e))
Pierre Abidi, M Kitchell, Emmanuelle X ENIGMA STRATEGY (Inside the Castle)
Jason McBride EAT YOUR MIND: THE RADICAL LIFE AND WORK OF KATHY ACKER (Simon & Schuster)
Will Alexander THE COMING MENTAL RANGE (Litmus Press)
Bruce Lindsay IVOR CUTLER: A LIFE OUTSIDE THE SITTING ROOM (Equinox)
Jared Pappas-Kelley STALKING AMERICA (Delere Press)
Ian Penman FASSBINDER THOUSANDS OF MIRRORS (Semiotext(e))
Richard Morton Jack NICK DRAKE: THE LIFE (John Murray)
Georges Bataille THE LIMIT OF THE USEFUL (MIT Press)
Music
(in no order)
Water From Your Eyes EVERYONE’S CRUSHED (Matador)
Kali Malone DOES SPRING HIDE ITS JOY (Ideologic Organ)
Guided by Voices LA LA LAND (GBV, Inc)
Moni Jitchell CLEAR (GoldMold Records)
Sparks THE GIRL IS CRYING IN HER LATTE (Island)
Mandy, Indiana I’VE SEEN A WAY (Fire Talk)
Nondi_ FLOOD CITY TRAX (Planet Mu)
Schobbee POE’S LAW (Lossless Digital)
Lonnie Holley OH ME OH MY (Jagjaguwar)
Martyna Basta SLOWLY FORGETTING, BARELY REMEMBERING (Warm Winters Ltd.)
Liturgy 93696 (Thrill Jockey)
Éliane Radigue NALDJORLAK (Saltern)
JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown SCARING THE HOES (AWAL)
Yves Tumor PRAISE A LORD WHO CHEWS BUT WHICH DOES NOT CONSUME; (OR SIMPLY, HOT BETWEEN WORLDS) (Warp)
John Cale MERCY (Domino)
Khanate TO BE CRUEL (Sacred Bones)
Killah Priest FOREST OF THE HAPPY EVER AFTER (Proverbs Records)
Film
(in no order)
Kyle Edward Ball SKINAMARINK
Aki Kaurismäki FALLEN LEAVES
Michael Salerno LE COEUR DU MASTURBATEUR
Albert Serra PACIFICTION
Rainer Kohlberger ANSWERING THE SUN
Rob Rice WAY OUT AHEAD OF US
Laura Poitras ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
Ari Aster BEAU IS AFRAID
Dicky Bahto FOR LIZ HARRIS
Chad Stahelski JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4
Ken Jacobs XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
Simon Payne INTERVALS
Gerard Johnstone M3GAN
Amanda Kim NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV
Art
(in no order)
Henry Taylor B SIDE (MoCA, Los Angeles)
Milford Graves FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY (ICA, Los Angeles)
Thomas Demand LE BÉGAIEMENT DE L’HISTOIRE (Jeu de Paume)
Trisha Donnelly (Air de Paris)
WHO YOU STARING AT? (Centre Pompidou)
Thom Andersen WORK ON FILM (Academy Museum, Los Angeles)
Page Person THE EAR* (*OR HOW I BECAME A PERSON) (Human Resources, Los Angeles)
Rammellzee GOTHIC FUTURISM (Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles)
Internet
(in no order)
SCAB
The Wire
GAMESCENES
Internet Archive
pixiv
SHABBY DOLL HOUSE
Small Press Distribution
espresso bongo
X-R-A-Y
{ feuilleton }
Legsville
Rhizome
Theme Park Review
ASTERISM
Musique Machine
Original Cinemaniac
Beaucoup
Expat
SOAP2DAY
Volume 1 Brooklyn
Experimental Cinema
The Los Angeles Review of Books
3:AM Magazine
largehearted boy
pantaloons
Harriet
Open Culture
Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets
giphy
The Wonderful World of Tam Tam Books
Hobart
Ubuweb
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p.s. Hey. As is always the case in these situations, I’m sure there are things I’ve spaced out on that would have been in my lists if I hadn’t spaced out on them. As is also always the case, I would love to know what some of your favorites of the half-year are in return, if you feel like it. Thanks! ** Dominik, Hi!!! It really does sound exciting — you in your new world with it gradually clarifying all around you. We would like the submit the film to some upcoming festivals (Berlin, Rotterdam, Sundance), and, to be able to do that, we would need a very solid, good looking/ sounding cut of the film to be finished by late September/early October, so we’re hoping for that. It’ll depend on whether we have funding to do all the post-production in time because, right now, we don’t have the funds we would need. Love recording a song that’s as beautiful as the sound of French children speaking French, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Meltzer is a raucous, kind of brilliant writer. Tremendous fun if you like his style. ** Maya, Hi, Maya! I find them on various escort sites. Well, the miserable ones are few and far between — most of them have extremely predictable, boring sales pitches — and it takes a lot of hunting, but they’re the creme of the escort crop if you like the combination of language and bizarre notions of what flirting means. You’re tempting me to start that podcast, ha ha, if only I were a little less busy. How are you? Have a magnificent weekend! ** Misanthrope, Nah, ixnay on Djokovic. His winningness means nothing to me. ‘His game boring’: precisely. I have my little body things too that I’ve had forever like a bad back that acts up and other shit like that. And my clothes/dye allergy. Could be worse, basically. Oh, I thought ‘The Flash’ was supposed to be good. It’s definitely a plane thing if ever for me. Hope your weekend is chilling in both senses. ** David Ehrenstein, I can only imagine that someone who writes like Meltzer would have to be a pretty complicated fella. ** Mark, Ha ha, I’m with you. Wow, Meltzer inspired two very interesting trains of your thought and enticing tips for those, or at least me, lucky enough to be in their proximity. I will punch those links in a short while. Thanks very much. Thanks about ‘TDP’ too. ‘Early’ is the keyword there for sure. Bon weekend! ** Robert, We sound to be like-minded on the music listening front. I’m good. Work on the film is my entire life at the moment, and it’s intensive but very exciting. I have very high hopes for the film. The weather here is too warm but not murderously so yet. My deep condolences on your brutal heat. Hot weather is perhaps my least favorite thing in the world. What’s Indiana like in a sentence or two? I drove through it once but very rapidly on my way elsewhere. I’ve never read The Bible. Strange, but there you go. ** Cody Goodnight, Hi, Cody. I’m fine, thanks. I envy you the rain. We’re hot and muggy, but I think it’s supposed to rain here on Monday, please dear god. Sparks were sublime, truly. Hm, I guess my favorite Sparks album would be a tie between ‘Indiscreet’, ‘Lil Beethoven’, Angst in My Pants’, and ‘Propaganda’. Well, a silent theater is definitely my preference. I wish people wouldn’t check their phone messages causing them to light up and distract everyone else. And people sitting near you who’ve already seen the movie and who keep loudly telling the person with them what’s happening in the film and whether they like it or not. Your life sounds rich and festive as it basically always does. Incentive for me to see and hear more stuff. Excellent Saturday, Sunday. ** Bill, Yes, that’s the young him. Well, that’s probably why I chose that photo to use, no doubt. I got the Richter vibe off that escort’s photos too. Again, probably why I picked him. Have a lovely weekend, sir. ** Right. My faves so far and ideally in return for your faves so far, and that’s your local weekend, and I’ll see you on Monday.
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Lovely. I enjoy these compilations. How can I send you my books for your delectation?
Great list of works. I picked up the new Richard Hell at Jack Skelley’s reading/event last night at Skylight. That was great. And yes, some of your choices are also on my imaginary list as well. I’m very fond of the Penman Fassbinder book, for example. Thanks for doing the listing, and I will check on the works/titles I don’t know.
Dennis, Oy vey, poor Djokovic, hahaha. 😉
Yeah, same re: little afflictions. I think I told you that I also have arthritis in my lumbar spine. That comes and goes. Just age, I guess. Very manageable, though.
Well, I follow a lot of DC fanboys/fangirls on Twitter, so I’m seeing all these “This movie is shit!” posts. Basically, they’re soooo involved in the comics and the movies and all that, so they see all these little nuances and shit that a regular moviegoer doesn’t. That, and they’re all extremely pissed that Henry Cavill will no longer be Superman and they hate James Gunn and love Zack Snyder. Outside of them, though, a lot of people are actually liking the movie. Hell, I’m an Ezra Miller fan, so that’s enough for me. 😀 We’ll see how it goes and I’ll report back.
I’m still in the middle of reading “Zeno’s Conscience.” It’s kind of a slog. Joyce based Leopold Bloom on the author and thought that this novel was a masterpiece. It’s actually quite humorous in a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” sort of way. It’s not bad. But it reminds me more of Proust than Joyce, so…yeah, hahaha.
I’m back… It’s me, the diabolical A, your worst nightmare. Yes, I’ve been summoned. Have you enjoyed the silence? How’ve you been amongst editing hell? You told me to not write everyday, so I’ll be checking in once a month now. I haven’t written you in a month. Are you in shock? Level 2 of the video game! My 29th birthday is this week, let’s see if my exhaustive annoying ambition will burn out in my 30s. When you get a moment can you or Zac please email me the post editing fees, so I can see how I could wire something/ help more? A lot of people talk a big game in business, but you’ve seen results/me come through for you! When will you be free for King Kong stuff? We’ve been working on the issue. I enjoyed Bo’s Zoom celebration and learning about his stunning prose but watching you talk about the Swans while smoking a cigarette into your webcam, was a life highlight. I saw you made a 2023 fiction list, FML. Maybe you read all those before the film editing took over and I’m praying you haven’t gotten to my ARC yet – hopefully in the coming weeks, I hope it’s on the top of your reading list because I do feel like you will enjoy the novel, if you can get past the deceptive YA sounding beginning that is meant to fool the reader like the saccharine teen movies at the time. My relentlessness has a purpose, I promise. Praying the novel will be DC christened soon and you’ll be emailing me a blurb at some point! 😉 – A
I’ve read a few of these, like the Dazai one, and Thomas Moore, and the Ange Dargent one… this reminds me, I still need to read the new Audrey.
As is usually the case with me, though, I’ll wait for the end of the year one of these before I divulge my favorites.
Today I turned 43. Eep!
Great list as always, Dennis. Look forward to checking out the unfamiliar items (which is most of them!) I’m really behind this year, for various reasons.
Fiction:
Matthew Cheney, The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories
Thomas Moore, Your Dreams
Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
Herve Guibert, My Manservant and me
Graphic novels:
Anke Feuchtenberg, W the Whore
Masaaki Nakayama, PTSD Radio 1
Non-fiction:
Drew Sawyer, Jimmy DeSana: Submission
Recorded music:
Chris Brown trio/4tet, Tremble Trove
https://artifactrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/tremble-trove-art-3017-2023
Beeferman/Foster/Evans/Hirsch, GLOW
https://triptickstapes.bandcamp.com/album/glow-2
Euphotic, Conjugate Regions
https://ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/album/conjugate-regions
Live music:
Tom Djll/Branden Abushanab at Luggage Store Gallery, SF
Chris Brown solo piano at Mosswood Sound, Oakland
Ben Goldberg/Ben Davis/Jordan Glenn at Mosswood Sound, Oakland
Matt Ingalls solo at Mosswood Sound, Oakland
Very behind on movies this year. Most are from ’22:
Infinity Pool (Cronenberg)
Master (Diallo)
Hotel Poseidon (Lernous)
My Year of Dicks (Gunnarsdóttir)
In the Court of the Crimson King (Amies)
Notable revivals:
Virtue (Camera Lucida)
Doom Generation (Araki)
Hi Dennis.
How are you? I’m doing ok. Wonderful list! I have to admit I haven’t seen many films this year or read many books, but your choices are very interesting. I really loved M3GAN, and I really want to see Beau is Afraid. The Dazai, Yeager and St. Hogan books sound interesting. I hope it rains for you soon, Dennis. Propaganda is a really fun album. Sparks makes really enjoyably witty music. I also hate it when people talk on their phones during a movie. It’s very distracting. I personally like my space during a movie, so I get annoyed when too many people sit next to or around me. Not much on the agenda today. Maybe I’ll watch a movie or listen to a record. Have a great day or night, Dennis!
I’m always interested in what Robert Glück is up to. I’ve met him a few times. A friend of mine in Chicago set selections from his book, Reader, to music and Robert participated in the performance. I’ll check out, I, Boombox.
Jarry is a particularly infamous belle epoch Parisian. A Breton, he was friends with Henri Rousseau and a host of other iconoclastic luminaries of the day. His play, Ubu Roi (1896), is generally considered to be the dawn of theater of the absurd. In addition to a substantial body of written works, he was also a graphic artist. He died in 1907, most likely from alcoholism and malnutrition. He was notorious for many queer things including riding his bicycle while brandishing pistols, eating fish he caught in the Seine and wearing bright yellow women’s shoes. And was wildly influential on dada and surrealism, in particular on Duchamp. The band Pere Ubu’s name is a reference to the main character in his most infamous play. The Morgan Library did an exhibition featuring his publications in 2020. https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/alfred-jarry
Some art:
Myth Makers at JC Contemporary, Hong Kong
Figures at Clay Studio, Philadelphia
Jimmy DeSana at Brooklyn Museum, NY
Stan Vanderbeek’s Movie-Drome, MOMA, NY
Of Mythic Worlds at Drawing Center, NY
Remedios Varo at Wendi Norris, SF
Bill
Killah Priest, eh? HEAVY MENTAL is very good, but new albums by Wu affiliates weren’t on my radar for 2023.
My favorite albums:
1. Romance & Dean Hurley-RIVER OF DREAMS
2. King Krule-SPACE HEAVY
3. Kassa Overall-ANIMALS
4. Kate NV-WOW
5. Luke Combs-GETTIN’ OLD
6. Ryuichi Sakamoto-12
7. Kelela-RAVEN
8. MC Yallah-YALLAH BEIBE
9. Jason Isbell &the 400 Unit-WEATHERVANES
10. Scowl-PSYCHIC DANCE ROUTINE
RUNNERS-UP:
Kelsea Ballerini-Rolling Up the Welcome Map
Jelly Roll-Whitsitt Chapel
Kesha-Gag Order
Alex Lahey-The Answer is Always Yes
Lankum-False Lankum
H. C. McEntire-Every Acre
Cecile McLorin Salvant-Mélusine
Romance-Fade Into You
RP Boo-Legacy, Vol. 2
Sparks-The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
Tubs-Dead Meat
Yves Tumor-Praise a Lord Which Chews But Does Not Consume…
Billy woods & Kenny Segal-Maps
SINGLES:
Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar-“The Hillbillies’
Cristale X Teezandos X Fumez the Engineer-“Plugged In”
Lana del Rey-“A&W”
Jam City featuring Empress Of-“Wild n Sweet”
Orbital featuring Penelope Isles-“Are We Alive?”
Perko-“Sisu”
Shakira & Bizzarap-“Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53”
Sleaford Mods-“Force 10 From Navarone”
Taylor Swift-“Hits Different”
Underscores-“Cops and Robbers”
FILMS:
DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR
DRY GROUND BURNING
PACIFICTION
THE PLAINS
QUEENS OF THE QING DYNASTY
REWIND & PLAY
SPOONFUL OF SUGAR
TORI AND LOKITA
What’s the new Craig Balwdin book? An essay collection?
I’m still struggling with insomnia and stress, but I’ve re-connected with my old psychiatrist and will return to seeing him, although I have to pay out of pocket. On Monday, I hope to hear back about an appointment next week.
I dunno, it’s a little hard to differentiate Indiana from the other midwestern states. I’d like to think it has a pretty large population of nice people but I don’t know if the evidence bears me out (and our politics certainly don’t). A lot of nice flat fields.
Thanks for yours. Here are mine.
Books:
The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker – Jack Skelley
Big Swiss – Jen Beagin
Rattlebone – Maxine Clair
a “Working Life” – Eileen Myles
Francisco – Alison Mills Newman
Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston – Ross Feld
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma – Claire Dederer
The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis – Jared Yates Sexton
Stomp and Shout: R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll – Peter Blecha
Art:
Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford – Frye Art Museum
Music:
Music for a New Century – Daniel Hope
The Last Quiet Place – Ingrid Laubrock
Hi DC 🙂 excited to check out all ur recs that i haven’t noticed yet. you have any inside intel on LE COEUR DU MASTURBATEUR getting an internet or US release? 👀
i just read *fear of kathy acker*, do you reckon you’re in the Skelley “extended universe”? haha. i’m making my way through your *wrong* collection, similar putting the dregs into my brain file of what i think 80s LA is. I really ought to visit sometime, somehow have never been there. besides idk disneyland as a young kid
that Water from your eyes album is so awesome. i caught their support for Palm last year and for some reason hadn’t followed up with checking out their recorded stuff even though i was pretty into the guitar-guitar-vocals-beats setup. luckily caught the wave again on this release. i wonder how they’ll do the more eclectic sounds live.
also really enjoyed the latest Liturgy and Khanate records. have you ever seen khanate live?
some other music i liked so far:
100 gecs – 10,000 gecs
bar italia – Tracey Denim
Colin Stetson – When we were that what wept for the sea
Jeromes Dream – The Gray In Between
Jute Gyte – Krun Macula
Model/Actriz – Dogsbody
Scalp – Black Tar
Xiu Xiu – Ignore Grief
OH book things! that’s very cute! Oh ive been trying to refine my German und das ist sehr super und ich bin traumen of Jeff Mangum und er ist mein favoritin uhh kunstler und Alec Empire ist auch sehr GUTE!! Yes I’m not telling you what I said but only if you know German will you get it > : D Ive been thinking about the fact that we only remember certain people if they make something beautiful for us. No one would know Darger, or really even care about him if he made nothing to make us feel good. He would just be a sad old man with nothing to provide to the aesthetic of our portraits or whatever. I think people feel comfortable knowing that they can sooth themselves with a beautiful picture to hide the disturbed and real suffering behind it.
You can get taken advantage of so easily no matter how nice you are. Like at hospitals you tell staff things but some (not all) Have a fundamental mindset of not trusting you because of diagnoses and ignorance.
When you feel like no one ever listens to you and you realize the only way they’ll listen is if you use their pen on yourself and then they drag you away like these creatures AND then your just attention-seeking or trying to get what you want its horrible. And you never forgive yourself. When you leave u dont even change ur worst
But I was at the craft store the other day and I got this really beautiful elephant paperdoll thing and I love it so much because I can do so much with it. OH I’m sewing dolls for a lot of people+friends and I can make you one-but I’m not going to send it no offense–but maybe you can name it and pick the colors and in about thousand years or whenever I might run into you at like uhhh a Rocket launch in Florida and i’ll give it to you then haha!!
Omg wait this actually distracted me, thank you !!!
oh wow ok so I messed up so bad!! I meant to say “ich bin träumen” not “ich bin traumen”
I accidently just said I’m traumatized by Jeff Magnum and not I’m dreaming of Jeff Magnum oops! also I must have been braindead because its Lieblings Künstler not favoritin ok srry bye!
Here’s a few of my faves, for what it’s worth:
Fiction: Audrey Szasz – Destroy Everything You Touch (Infinity Land Press) She is my current fave writer and Counterillumination (Amphetamine Sulphate) is in the post.
Music: Surgeon – Crash Recoil (Tresor)
Film: M3GAN (Gerard Johnstone)
TV: Succession (HBO)
2023 lowlight was definitely Leeds United being relegated. Still, Scotland won last night in the Euro qualifiers so things are not all bad.
Hey, Dennis,
Brian here! Long time no talk. I hope you’re well. Things have been very busy on my end (as the long period of time since my last comment probably evidences). Mostly a good sort of busy, though. My school gave me a research fellowship for the summer, which has been nice. And my social life’s been more active than ever since the pandemic. I’ve been doing a lot of reading, too, including some of your favorites (“Good Morning, Midnight” by Rhys, and “Ice” by Anna Kavan, and plenty of Joy Williams). Currently in the middle of a Brian Evenson binge: I’ve always loved his work but now I’m really going whole hog on it. One of my favorite contemporary prose stylists, I think. All of that has been very rewarding. Your list leaves me more to catch up with than I can manage in the remainder of the year! I confess I haven’t been very up to the mark in terms of 2023 releases. For new fiction, I’ve only read Richard Mirabella’s debut, “Brother & Sister Enter the Forest”, which I mostly rather liked. My favorite albums have been “Everything Harmony” by the Lemon Twigs and “Formal Growth in the Desert” by Protomartyr. Movies…huh, I guess “Beau is Afraid” is my favorite so far, although I still haven’t seen too much. I’m a little (pleasantly!) surprised to see it included on your list, as I thought you weren’t a fan of Aster’s previous films. (This one was a gear shift in a number of ways, of course.) I’ll enjoy following up on many of the inclusions here. Besides that: how are things? How’s the film going? Life treating you well? I certainly hope so. All my love.
Hi!!
Thank you so much for sharing your favorites! These are always among my most-anticipated posts of the year. And a special thank you for including SCAB once again! Here’s my small collection (as always, regardless of the year they were born):
BOOKS
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Missed. Better Still. by Peter Sotos
Rent Boy by Gary Indiana
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (This one’s a reread, but it’s a forever favorite.)
MOVIES
Aftersun by Charlotte Wells
Basquiat by Julian Schnabel
Bullet Train by David Leitch
Lilya 4-Ever by Lukas Moodysson
SERIES
Rain Dogs by Cash Carraway
Atlanta by Donald Glover
And what a beautiful love you sent my way! Thank you! Love making sure that you have the funds (and some to spare, just to be sure) you need for all the post-production work by midnight tomorrow, Od.
Hello Dennis!
Thank you for your lists one more time! That Agota Kristof book (all of hers) is awesome. And I’m dying to read that one about Nick Drake and see Le coeur du masturbateur.
Mine:
Movies
– Skinamarink – Kyle Edward Ball
– The Show – Mitch Jenkins & Alan Moore
– The Strange Ones – Christopher Radcliff & Lauren Wolkstein
– All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Laura Poitras
– Mantícora – Carlos Vermut
Books
– My Belief – Hermann Hesse
– Empalador – Eduardo Haro Ibars
– Branded: A Diary – Emmy Hennings
– The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
– The Shards – Bret Easton Ellis
Internet
– DC’S
– SCAB
Video game
– South of the Circle
Greetings!
Thank you so much, Dennis!
And also, so many cool things on here to check out. Making notes.
Thinking of hitting Paris in just over a month or so. Gonna talk to Michael this week. I’ll let you know!
Thomas xoxo
Dennis! How lovely it is to discover you like my little book, written (of this I am certain) during Dreamtime. I have such affection for your work, your blog, and the memory of our one and only encounter! Today I was reading the delightful and thoughtful Small Pieces by Micheline Aharonian Marcom, illustrated by
Fowzia Karimi, the author of ABOVE US THE MILKY WAY–one of the GREAT BOOKS! (Fowzia and I are currently working on a book together.)Thank you so much for all the pleasure you bring us!