Lucia Berlin reads Unmanageable (6:23)
https://soundcloud.com/readlucia/lucia-berlin-unmanageable

 

Ron Padgett reads June 17, 1942 (4:18)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/disconnected/Disconnected_36_padgett.mp3

 

Lorine Niedecker reads Thomas Jefferson (5:10)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Niedecker/Niedecker-Lorine_01_Thomas-Jefferson_Factory-School-Archive_11-1970.mp3

 

Jim Carroll reads from The Basketball Diaries: Age 13, 1965 (3:43)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/disconnected/Disconnected_24_carroll.mp3

 

Jean Baudrillard recites his poetry (8:07)
backed up by an all star band featuring Tom Watson, Mike Kelley, George Hurley, Lynn Johnston, Dave Muller and Amy Stoll
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/baudrillard_jean/suicide_moi/Baudrillard-Jean_Chance-Band_Suicide-Moi_02.mp3

 

Will Alexander reads Compound Hibernation (2:22)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Alexander-Will/Alexander-Will_04_Compound-Hibernation_BPC-Segue_3-17-07.mp3

 

Helen Adam sings Cheerless Junkie Song (2:45)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/corpse/Corpse_08_adam.mp3

 

Sylvia Plath reads Daddy (3:43)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/corrupt/Totally-Corrupt_04_plath.mp3

 

Pierre Guyotat reads from Progenitures (6:14)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/guyotat_pierre/Progenitures/Guyotat-Pierre_p11.mp3

 

Ted Berrigan reads The Sonnets (1:13:14)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Berrigan/Sonnets-Singles/Berrigan-Ted_The-Sonnets-without-introduction_New-Langton_1981.mp3

 

Joe Brainard reads from I Remember (4:03)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/dial/The-Dial-A-Poem-Poets_17_brainard.mp3

 

Stewart Home reads William Burroughs In Hell (0:39)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Home/Cyber-Sadism/Home-Stewart_Cyber-Sadism_11-William-Burroughs-In-Hell.mp3

 

Georges Perec reads TENTATIVE DE DESCRIPTION DE CHOSES VUES AU CARREFOUR MABILLON LE 19 MAI 1978 (A. C. R.) (8:15)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/perec_georges/interviews/3/Perec-Georges_Text-Interviews_02-Tentative-de-descripion..mp3

 

Kathy Acker reads Second Whore Song (3:29)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Acker/Pussy/Acker-Kathy_02_Second-Whore-Song_Pussy_1994.mp3

 

Renee Gladman reads from The Ravickians (12:13)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Gladman/San-Diego-02-15-2012/The-Ravickians.mp3

 

Taylor Mead reads I Was in a Drugstore (3:33)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/corrupt/Totally-Corrupt_21_mead.mp3

 

Alain Robbe-Grillet reads from Jealousy (10:07)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/aspen/mp3/robbeGrillet.mp3

 

Susan Sontag reads from Debriefing (17:35)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/sontag_susan/debriefing/Sontag-Susan_01_Debriefing_1979.mp3

 

Gertrude Stein reads How She Bowed To Her Brother (2:18)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Stein/Stein-Gertrude_She-Bowed-to-Her-Brother.MP3

 

Lydia Davis reads A Mown Lawn (1:41)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Davis-L/4-25-17/Davis_Lydia_A-Mown-Lawn_KWH-UPenn_4-25-2017.mp3

 

James Schuyler reads Korean Mums (2:09)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Schuyler/Schuyler-Tapes/92-Street-Y-11-23-89/Schuyler-James_05_Korean-Mums_Reading-at-92nd-Street-Y_11-23-89.mp3

 

Scott McClanahan reads Jenny Sugar (8:16)
https://soundcloud.com/bomb-magazine/scott-mcclanahan-reading-at

 

Vladimir Nabokov reads from Lolita (25:34)
https://soundcloud.com/oobleckboy/nabokov-reading-lolita-part

 

Joy Williams reads The Last Generation (31:42)
https://www.kwls.org/audio/joy_williams_1989_the_last_gen/

 

Maggie Nelson reads The Mute Story of November and The Halo Over the Hospital (15:10)
https://www.kwls.org/audio/maggie_nelson_2008/

 

Benjamin Weissman reads Hitler Ski Story (13:09)
https://www.ubu.com/sound/weismann.html

 

Darius James reads from Negrophobia (23:49)
https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter/bundles/238448

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Hi, Lucas! Thank you about the Akerman post. I would love to read your book. Thanks very, very much, that’s very generous of you. My email is: [email protected]. I greatly look forward to it. Take care. ** T, Hi, T! The Furry world seems really interesting. I only haven’t plunged into it because it seems like such a lucrative i.e. very distracting rabbit hole. Guro interests me due to my basically lifelong interest in how to how to represent knee-jerk shocking things while circumventing the shock, and Guro artists are always looking for that perfect fine line, and, yeah, so am I, or at least I used to be on that hunt. Since we both seem to have gotten through Monday okay, let’s make standing (or sleeping) tall at dawn tomorrow our next goal, what do you say? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi. Kristen did write me a quick email to say thanks to me and to all of you guys for enjoying her show (again). You can’t order take-out/in? English cuisine, yeeks. That would leave me with a diet of mostly chips and scones, I guess. Counting the minutes, pal. ** Bill, I’m not a big Pasolini guy, as you know, but I do remember ‘Medea’ being pretty tops. The big day is almost shockingly soon. Really glad you liked the David Nutt. Good characterisation there. Me too. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Awesome. I’ve always blogged during the hardcore Halloween season and maxed it out with posts, so it’s going to be weird to be offline for a big part of it, if, that is, plans pan out. Speaking of, the big problem is, of course, money. It turns out we don’t in fact have enough to make the film, and we have to raise a little more, which is very depressing since the fundraising was such a nightmare. So, uggggh. Zac and I need to go to LA sometime around the end of this month. We’re still figuring out exactly when. Well, you survived, and you sound like you, so whew. And hopefully no one else you know well will get married for a long, long time. I’ll get the Masters book. Great! Your love is yesterday would be a lifesaver. Also, my laptop is acting weird like it might be dying, so I have to ask love to please cure it today, thanking him in advance, G. ** Travis (fka Cal), Thanks, Travis. I’m doing reasonably well, and how about you, chum? ** Jeff J, Hi, Jeff! That Shangri-Las collection is really the only great, comprehensive one. There must be rights issues or something. Is ‘Kid Marine’ oop? Wow, I’m surprised, if so. It’s spectacular. Pollard’s greatest solo work, which is saying something. ‘Illuminations’ is utterly unique in BSM’s work. The album I chose is just before it when she was working in a folk mode. She moved away from that starting with ‘Illuminations’, sort of like Donovan did starting with ‘Sunshine Superman’. Anyway, ‘Little Wheel …’ is really superb. I honestly love all of Aki Onda’s recordings. I don’t think you can go wrong with him. If you see this before you’re off to the writers retreat, I hope you have the most amazing internal avalanche. Enjoy every second. ** Misanthrope, Yes, never look up your symptoms on the internet, or not if you have a big imagination that is prone to seek the most stressful diagnosis. David seems kind of doomed or something. It’s very sad. ** Dom Lyne, Hi, Dom! Good to see you, buddy! Oh, wow, about you starting the treatment. Great, if complicated, that it’s already triggering important revelations, though. Especially about and encouraging of your writing. Speaking as someone who  had the death of someone very close to me change my writing forever, I really hear you. Awesome about the bulldog. And French even! You sound good, man, you do. Oh, I’m alright. Everything’s about getting to the point where Zac and I can make our new film, and it’s hellish off and on right now, but the payoff will be worth it. But, yeah, I’m good. Really, really happy that summer is over. Love, me. ** Damien Ark, No big on time. Time flows or whatever. Wow, October?! That’s, like, almost now! Who’s publishing it? What’s the story? That’s super great news, maestro! ** Okay. I thought it would be nice to ask you to listen to some excellent authors read their works, so I’m hoping you’ll pick one or two or more and kick back or lean forward or whatever your preferred position is and take in the blog in through your ears today. Simple as that. See you tomorrow.

* (restored/Halloween countdown post #1)

Cao Hui
http://www.linlingallery.com/eng/artists-d.php?id=33

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adrian Ghenie
https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/adrian-ghenie/

 

 

Brandon Vickerd
http://brandonvickerd.com

 

 

 

 

Cheryl Dunn
http://www.cheryldunn.net

 

 

Sturtevant
https://www.gavinbrown.biz/artists/sturtevant/works

 

 

Mike Diana
http://www.mikedianacomix.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dongwook Lee
http://www.dongwooklee.net

 

 

 

 

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Annette Messager
https://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/52-annette-messager/

 

 

Agata Kus
https://agatakus.pl

 

 

Miaz Brothers
http://miazbrothers.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toshio Saeki
https://www.instagram.com/toshiosaekioficial/?hl=en

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ghost Drummer

 

 

Joseph Seigenthaler
http://www.joeseigenthaler.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kevin Francis Gray
http://www.kevinfrancisgray.com

 

 

 

 

Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
http://www.sunyuanpengyu.com

 

 

Eberhard Havekost
http://www.antonkerngallery.com/artist/eberhard-havekost/#/copy-property-b12–2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tracey Snelling
http://traceysnelling.com/home.html

 

 

Jeremy Millar
http://www.jeremymillar.org

 

 

Cécile B. Evans
https://cecilebevans.com

 

 

Abigail Goldman
http://abigailgoldman.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jessica Harrison
http://www.jessicaharrison.co.uk

 

 

 

 

Ryan Gander
http://www.lissongallery.com/artists/ryan-gander

 

 

Marnie Weber
http://www.marnieweber.com

 

 

Elmgreen & Dragset
http://www.elmgreen-dragset.com/Elmgreen-Dragset.html

 

 

 

 

 

Jérôme Zonder
http://www.evahober.com/?item=jerome-zonder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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p.s. Hey. Due to the fact that the blog will likely be on vacation during a good portion of the actual Halloween season since Zac and I are scheduled to be busy in LA then working on the preproduction of our new film, I’ve decided to start the blog’s annual Halloween season early this year. And to kick it off, here’s a lovely restored Halloween show from years ago devised by long-time blog reader and multiple Galerie guest-curator Kristen Shull. It’s cool, have fun. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Yeah, the film seems cursed, and problems persist, but we’ll get there. It just never should have been this difficult. Oh, no! How was the bachelorette shebang? Are you okay? Are your mind, body, and soul in one piece? I didn’t know Brian Masters wrote a Dahmer bio. How did I not know that? Is it as good as ‘Killing for Company’? ‘KfC’ is up there with the very best serial killer bios ever in my book. I hope love performed the miracle for you, but I’m guessing it was a miracle too far, even for almighty love? Love fulfilling my fantasy that I wake up one morning to discover I can speak French fluently, G. ** T, T-man! Yes, him and Sion Sono. I did a Sion Sono Day last year if you didn’t see it and want to revisit past glories. Ah, university gotcha. Clean, yes. I liked the year I was at university before I quit, hint hint. Thanks about ‘The Marbled Swarm’! That’s my favorite of my novels, as you probably know. Yeah, the flat thing came from my having been heavily trolling the guro scene while I was writing it. Not that I’m not still trolling it. May your Monday the ultimate Monday whatever the hell that would be. ** Bill, Did you spend your day with Pasolini? Right, huge controversy or something around the Castro getting rid of its seats or something, right? ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Like I said, I have no interest in that guy. ** Sypha, Welcome home. Jesus, your teeth are like a monster movie from the 1950s. I used to listen to Bret’s podcast regularly, but I kind of slacked off when he started talking about politics. I guess I should jump back in. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, man. ‘House’ is so great. I’m sure you’ll love it. Well, a lot of your UK footballer types are notoriously hair trigger nuts, you’ve got to admit. ** Brendan, Like Terry Richardson used to be paid, like, ten years ago at minimum. Yay! Beauty and niceness for miles. I’m still gonna email you. I’m just, like, email-impaired. It’s fucking weird. ** Steve Erickson, No, thank you, Steve! And it got quite high traffic so it seems to have gone down a storm amongst the silent internet world. I know Hisayasu Sato’s stuff a little. Huh. I’ll look into doing a post about him. Excited for the interview! ** Right. Walk your eyes through Kristen’s Halloween-y stewardship of my galerie please, thank you. See you tomorrow.