July 2012
10 posts
“This brings me to my last recommendation: The Afterlives of the Saints by Colin...”
– Liberty Hardy of The Well-Readheads (via unbridledbooks)
Book Notes for Afterlives of the Saints, at Large...
“One of the goals with this book was to rethink just what a “saint” was, and how saints have appeared in surprising ways throughout Western culture—the way that Madame Bovary, for example, was written out of a failed attempt to write what Flaubert considered his true masterpiece, The Temptation of St. Anthony, or how Saint Teresa of Avila’s ecstatic visions have, through...
King & I: Growing Up Reading Stephen King
MY MOST FORMATIVE childhood experience involved Stephen King, and in particular my dread fear of his book The Shining. I was four or five years old, I think, though it may have been earlier. I had never read the novel, nor seen the movie; I was terrified of the book itself, the physical object. My father had this bright, taxicab-yellow paperback, a movie tie-in edition with a few glossy stills...
On Phrenological Insults
“On June 26, the Los Angeles–based artist Colin Dickey told me that the slope on the sides of my skull indicated that I was prone to failure, which would explain why I was an art writer and not an artist. It is safe to say that I will not be endorsing any revival of phrenology Dickey may spearhead in the near future.”
From a review of Machine Project & Southern Exposure’s...
