February 13, 2013
In which you, dear Black Balloon visitor, read, reread, diagram, and become thoroughly creeped out by Yoko Ogawa's Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales.
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Read on for a selection of songs from the fevered brain of Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, the Make-Up, Chain and the Gang, etc.) and a firsthand account of a basement seance he conducted to promote his book, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group.
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"Bill Peters belongs in the ranks of serious literary artists." Thank you, NYT. We couldn't agree more.
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My mind kept jumping around as I made my way through Me and the Devil's brutal sex scenes and curmudgeonly rants — not to mention the long dialogue between the two titular characters, during which the narrator keeps vomiting ghost-rats. By the end, I had scribbled down a handful of ways to approach the book, which I present to you now.
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A weekly series that explores a featured theme — this month, it's "tongues" — by pairing classic quotations with urgent images. What recent news items inspired these textual/visual sets? Leave your guesses in the comments, and check back next Wednesday afternoon for the answers.
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A weekly series that explores a featured theme — this month, it's "tongues" — by pairing classic quotations with urgent images. What recent news items inspired these textual/visual sets? Leave your guesses in the comments, and check back next Wednesday afternoon for the answers.
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