Fiction
(in no order)

Richard Cheim KING OF JOY (Soft Skull)

Mark Doten TRUMP SKY ALPHA (Graywolf Press)

Niven Govinden THIS BRUTAL HOUSE (Little Brown)

Juliet Escoria JULIET THE MANIAC  (Melville House)

Renee Gladman MORELIA  (Solid Objects)

Brian Evenson SONG FOR THE UNRAVELING OF THE WORLD  (Coffeehouse Press)

Kathryn Davis THE SILK ROAD  (Graywolf Press)

Andrew Hodgson MNEMIC SYMBOLS  (Dostoyevsky Wannabe)

Maryse Meijer RAG  (FSG)

M Kitchell EXPERIMENTAL MEN  (Inside the Castle)

Karen An-hwei Lee THE MAZE OF TRANSPARENCIES  (Ellipsis Press)

James Nulick HAUNTED GIRLFRIEND  (Expat Press)

James Champagne HARLEM SMOKE (Expat Press)

Josiah Morgan INSIDE THE CASTLE  (Amphetamine Reptile)

Isabel Waidner WE ARE MADE OF DIAMOND STUFF  (Dostoyevsky Wannabe)

Sean Kilpatrick SHOCK TEST … A NIGHT OF TRUTH: BILL HICKS & TIMOTHY MCVEIGH MEET AT WACO GUEST LECTURERS: WILLIAM COOPER & TED KACZYNSKI  (nemo me impune lacessit press)

Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, & Dan Chaon, Eds. BEST MICROFICTION 2019  (Pelekinesis)

Raymond Roussel THE ALLEY OF FIREFLIES AND OTHER STORIES  (The Song Cave)

 

 

Poetry
(in no order)

Ed Smith PUNK ROCK IS COOL FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (Turtle Point)

Ben Fama DEATH WISH (Newest York Arts Press)

Marcelline Delbecq CAMERA (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Ron Padgett BIG CABIN (Coffeehouse Press)

Ariana Reines A SAND BOOK (Tin House)

Edmund Berrigan MORE GONE (City Lights)

Stephen Jonas ARCANA: A STEPHEN JONAS READER (City Lights)

Kim Hyesoon A DRINK OF RED MIRROR (Action Books)

Kit Robinson THOUGHT BALLOON (Roof Books)

 

 

Nonfiction
(in no order)

Tosh Berman TOSH (City Lights)

Gary Indiana VILE DAYS (Semiotext(e))

Will Alexander A CANNIBAL EXPLAINS HIMSELF TO HIMSELF (The Elephants)

John Waters MR. KNOW-IT-ALL (FSG)

Steve Finbow/Karolina Urbanik DEATH MORT TOD (Infinity Land Press)

Damo Suzuki & Paul Woods I AM DAMO SUZUKI (Omnibus)

Simeon Wade FOUCAULT IN CALIFORNIA (Heyday)

David Toop FLUTTER ECHO: LIVING WITHIN SOUND (Ecstatic Peace)

 

 

Music
(in no order)

Sunn0))) LIFE METAL (Southern Lord)

Aki Onda A METHOD TO ITS MESSINESS (Thalamos)

Guided by Voices WARP AND WOOF (Rockathon)

Triad God 黑社會 TRIAD (Presto!?)

Xiu Xiu GIRL WITH BASKET OF FRUIT (Polyvinyl)

William Basinski ON TIME OUT OF TIME (Temporary Residence)

Matmos PLASTIC ANNIVERSARY (Thrill Jockey)

Helm CHEMICAL FLOWERS (Pan)

Tyler, the Creator IGOR (Columbia)

Daniel O’Sullivan FOLLY (O Genesis)

Finlay Shakespeare DOMESTIC ECONOMY (Editions Mego)

Inter Arma SULPHUR ENGLISH (Relapse)

Prefab Sprout I TRAWL THE MEGAHERTZ (Sony)

Stephen Malkmus GROOVE DENIED (Matador)

 

 

Film
(in no order)

Annette Dutertre JOURNAL D’UN MONTAGE – ADULTERE MODE D’EMPLOI

Frederick Weissman MONROVIA, INDIANA

Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson THE GREEN FOG

Ken Jacobs THE SKY SOCIALIST

Hirokazu Kore-eda SHOPLIFTERS

 

 

Art
(in no order)

Gretchen Bender SO MUCH DEATHLESS (Red Bull Arts New York)

Vija Celmins TO FIX THE IMAGE IN MEMORY (SF MOMA)

Morgan Fisher PASSING TIME (Redcat, Los Angeles)

Joe Brainard 100 WORKS (Tibor de Nagy, NYC)

Michael Heizer 1968 – 2019 (Gagosian Le Bourget)

Isidore Isou RETROSPECTIVE (Centre Pompidou)

 

 

Internet
(in no order)

SCAB
Profound Experience
X-R-A-Y
Rhizome
Re:Voir
TOWARDS CYCLOBE
Musique Machine
Original Cinemaniac
The Creative Independent
Shit Wonder
Fanzine
Volume 1 Brooklyn
Entropy
Real Pants
Queen Mob’s Teahouse
dark fucking wizard
TL;DR
The Chiseler
espresso bongo
Experimental Cinema
The Wire
SOUL PONIES
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The Los Angeles Review of Books
Solar Luxuriance
3:AM Magazine
largehearted boy
Bookforum
pantaloons
Tiny Mix Tapes
Harriet
Open Culture
Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets
giphy
The Wonderful World of Tam Tam Books
Hobart

 

 

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p.s. Hey. As it says in the headline, if there’s stuff that’s come out this year that you especially like and/or recommend, I’m always hungry for new discoveries in every medium. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hey. Yes, I remember that YnY piece, cool. Everyone, Back in 2009, Ben ‘_Black_Acrylic’ Robinson and some artist pals had a lively talk about Ryan Trecartin’s videos for the legendary, much missed zine Yuck ‘n Yum, and you can still read it, and obviously I recommend you do. Here. ** David Ehrenstein, Ha ha, well, if it’s your cat’s favorite, I should try again, but I’m pretty sure I won’t last long. Gisele likes it. I do not know Wheeler Winston Dixon’s work, and I will correct that ASAP. Huh. Thank you! New FaBlog! Everyone, Mr. E’s FaBlog has a new thing at its top called ‘Alexandria Again and Forever’ and you can conjoin with it here. ** Sypha, Hi. Interesting. I know Japan is extremely all over the trading card thing. There are a lot of shops here catering to Japanophile pop culture fans, and they’re stuffed with packs of trading cards for not just Japanese things but even really obscure and out of date US TV, bands, movies, etc. The Shiel book sounds so up your alley, and intriguing. That reminds me that I really need to order some books from Snuggly. I’ve been meaning to for ages. ** Steve Erickson, I’m very to have been able to make the introduction between and Ryan’s work. Yeah, I’ve tried to get his stuff programmed in film contexts, but it’s very difficult because they’re considered by the galleries that represent him to be commodities, and the galleries are hesitant to let him escape the marketplace. I know that’s frustrating for him. ** cal, Hi, Cal! Weird, I was just thinking about you and wondering how you are yesterday. Nice. I’ve mostly been quite good, really busy with the ‘PGL’ release and a TV project I’m co-writing and the early stages of Zac’s and my next film. But it’s all good. Very happy you like Ryan’s work. A favorite? That’s tough as he’s consistently amazing. Maybe ‘I-BE AREA’ or ‘Center Jenny’, but it’s hard. I usually recommend ‘A Family Finds Entertainment’ as a great way into his work. Congrats on finishing school! Is the new job interesting as well as fruitful? Cool, I hope you like ‘PGL’, fingers crossed. Man, really good to see you! I hope I get to see again soon. ** PinkKeatons, You’ve got some good weed there. When you go to the theme parks, I’ll give you some must-see tips. Zac and I rode almost everything at every park there except we didn’t get to Sea World. Paris Pride took place in St. Denis this year. Weird experiment. Apparently worked like a charm. ** Shane Christmass, Hi, Shane. My pleasure. Oh, man, how did I not know about your gif works before? Shit, I will be heavily and thoroughly all over that pretty much instantaneously. Thank you! Everyone, Super excellent writer Shane Christmass also works in the gif medium, which is, as you know, a medium I prize and think is vastly under-explored by artists, and Shane’s a killer artist, and I thusly recommend you go over here and luxuriate in IMAGE MACRO GIF ONE, as it/they are titled. Have fun! Oh, and the mixtape! I’ll be there too. Everyone, p.s. Shane has also put together a mixtape of stuff he was absorbing while writing his novel XEROX OVER MNAHATTAN, and I’ll bet that’s pretty heavily listenable, so go here too. Wait, I haven’t read that novel. Shit. I’ll get it. I’m pretty it would be up there in the post if I hadn’t spaced. But the year is young. Thanks, man. ** Right. Your day here has been introduced. See you tomorrow.

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p.s. Hey. ** Keaton, Thanks, man. Oh, well, there are a ton of great bands characterised as punk. I guess it depends on what one considers punk because punk got ambitious rather quickly while still being punk at its core. Hm. I hope Florida’s famous brightness is all yours. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Well, I disagree with you strongly about Errol Morris, but we’ve been at that impasse many times, so c’est la vie! Thanks for the link to Melville piece. I’ll devour it. ** Sypha, Thanks a lot, James, and I send you love in dealing with your loss too. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. I can’t even imagine what it’s like there in SF where Kevin was an omnipresence. I’m still not fathoming it all yet. I’m glad you liked that Pat O’Neil. Yeah, he’s really good, really undervalued, but it does seem like his time is starting to come. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. I’m happy the Abigail Child post connected with you. Yeah, transgresso buddies, you and me, still fighting the good fight. The thing by me in the anthology is a piece of this new novel I’ve been extremely slowly working on for forever. I’m thrilled you like it! I haven’t read the anthology yet, but I’m very excited to read your contribution, you can bet. Thanks, my friend. ** Corey Heiferman, Thank you, Corey. Kevin’s great. A great writer. Thank you for answering my question. Understood. Paris is pretty good for celluloid films, both in the realms of the serious film centers, large and small, and also a big number of small theatres on the Left Bank devoted to showing older, more avant films that aren’t digitised. Hook us/me up with your vid/film sample, if you will, and huge and obvious luck on the application. Unfortunately, the way I work, my novels are completely unreadable until I edit and refine the shit out of them, and I’m unfortunately not at that phase yet. ** Steve Erickson, Yeah, incalculable loss. I, like many who weren’t right there, felt sure that Kevin would pull through this most recent downturn. It’s truly shocking. Not even the tiniest bit surprised about ‘Rocketman’. I would say I’m shocked to see so many seemingly taste-filled people liking it on social media, but people’s standards, or what they want a movie to do, are just so fucking low these days in so many cases. Bring on the enlightenment. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. You’re writing! How excellent! That Blood Bath zine looks very cool. Yeah go for it, and may their adventurousness be a wise version. ** Bernard Welt, Hi, B. Yeah, as I said up above, I was under the impression that Kevin was on the upswing from the bout of pneumonia. I’m still completely bewildered and shocked. Your travels go well, I see. I liked Maastricht. I don’t remember much about it — I was there in the ’80s — but, yeah, some kind of fondness grew. You’re here on July 3rd. Got it. I’ll put that in my calendar. I’ve started keeping a calendar. Great! I’m pretty completely sure there won’t be any July 4th parties here. Maybe a bear bar will do something American-esque? I think of ‘bear’ as originating from North America, but that’s probably nonsensical. I really look forward to seeing you, great Bernard! Love, me. ** Misanthrope, A million billion times, no doubt. Death’s gradual approach via ageing is definitely the worst thing ever. You take care too. ** Kyler, Thank you kindly, Kyler. ** Paul Curran, Hi, Paul! Gisele’s in Japan right now. But in Kyoto. They’re doing some Japanese ballet version of one of her early pieces there, and she’s there to try to keep it from being too … something. Yeah, as I keep saying, I just can’t get my head around Kevin being dead. It just doesn’t seem humanly possible. Thanks for the love and take a ton from me. How are things with you? Are you able to write these days? ** Okay. I don’t remember why I decided the other day to restore this ridiculous post I made back in the days when I was first fooling around with gifs, but I did, and it’s too late turn back now. See you tomorrow.