c.c.Sunday afternoon reading: Junglekeeper –What It Takes To Save The World by Paul Rosolie.
Mads KjeldgaardI've read some INCREDIBLE novels this year, and I share my favourites of them here for inspiration. All of these are life changing master pieces:
- Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
- Elena Ferrante - The Neapolitan Novels
- Clarice Lispector - Agua Viva
- Virginia Woolf - The Waves
Luci “Milky Princess” TeaUsborne has made all its classic computer books available as PDFs on their official website
Devine Lu LinvegaDEVINE LU LINVEGA PLOPPED DOWN WITH a copy of Ulysses. Slouching, if only for a minute, waiting for the kettle, if it wasn't for that, pressure. Can never remember to piss before. Nookicky's on. Thoughing it out. Right, so Dedalus. What's he up to now, seven hundred pages of this, by Jove, what a chatty fellow that Joyce, Ireland window shopping. Nils in Dublin morelike. Chaps for geese. Something about money, pences, stones, fathom, bells? How's ol' Tom Nook doing. Cockroaches all over, gokiburi hoi! hoi! That greedy raccoon. Insatiable, wait. Did someone just die.
—Half trying to start a conversation. The book? Mr. Bloom he, Nookicky's over, on goes Guniw Tools, no idea. Other Goose. What's it about?
—It's good.
Thoroughly enjoying Ulysses, I guess I expected Infinite Jest, but it's not like it at all, it's lucid and the prose is beautiful and witty. I read every voice as the main character in The Dresser. But, having not read Hamlet might be a bit of a hindrance-
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ArtsunReaching the end of City of Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin. Damn her writings are so good, especially considering they're 60 years old...
A few months back, @pvh gave Rek and I a copy of Coffey's Sailing Back In Time about the Farrells who sailed a junk rig called China Cloud up and down the coast between the 50s and 90s.
I only just finished it, I had saved it to be a summer read and we just happened to be anchored where the book happens so I picked it up. Their account of the lives of people along the coast at that time is really interesting, and sad, in a similar way to Moitessier who comes back to Tahiti to find a parking lot where he had built a farm. It would take a massive cataclysm for the coast to begin to heal. The book gave me intense weltschmerz.
Jessica EkomaneI’m so happy and proud to finally announce it: I made a book. I called it Double Entendre, and it is out now!
As a kid, I lived my entire life through books. Becoming a writer was my first dream. I remember coveting my aunt’s heavy and loud monster of a typewriter at the time. The summer I turned about 10, I secretly locked myself in her room to write my first epic grand classic novel. I never finished it, but the dream remained.
While what I’m publishing today isn’t a novel (yet), Double Entendre offers an equally meaningful long-form conversation with theorist and curator Antonia Majaca about my work, followed by a reprint of a text I wrote for Berlin Art Week 2023, the year I spent my Villa Romana fellowship in Florence.
Where to find it: It is available now at the bookshops of Hamburger Bahnhof (via Walther Koenig bookshop), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and HKW Berlin (via Archive Souq) in Berlin. Or order it online via Archive Books’ website (https://www.archivebooks.org/double-entendre/). I will also be carrying some around at the next gigs.
Published by Archive Books & Villa Romana, as part of the yearly Villa Romana Fellows publication. Heartfelt thanks to everyone involved in making this a reality.
Softcover, English, 96 pages
Books photos by Giulia del Piero.
0gust1Oh, je suis tombé sur le dernier livre de @poum en allant acheter des mangas pour le gnome #2 !
#merveilles est partout !
Bad DiodeStarted reading The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton on the beach and had to put it down after 100 pages. The writing is very sloppy and the misogyny feels baked in. Once they explain that they need a single man to make the call for a critical decision because it was “backed by science” that they make the correct decision under pressure more often than married man or women I was out 🤮
I used to love Crichton books when I was a kid, particularly Timeline, Prey and Jurassic Park but if they were all like this all along I don’t think I’ll ever revisit them.