{"id":14318,"date":"2013-09-22T02:08:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T01:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14318"},"modified":"2013-09-22T02:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T01:12:00","slug":"weekend-links-178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/09\/22\/weekend-links-178\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 178"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pretty Pictures, a new book by designer Marian Bantjes<\/a>, is out on October 1st.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 A writer admired by Angela Carter, Michael Moorcock, Harlan Ellison, Anthony Burgess, Jonathan Meades and Iain Sinclair; a “writer’s writer…[whose]\u00a0best stories bear comparison with the Ficciones<\/em> of Jorge Luis Borges”; a writer with an “unsettling quality to his writing, a whiff of brimstone that links him to fin-de-si\u00e8cle occult figures such as HP Lovecraft\u2014and even, at a further remove, Aleister Crowley”. David Collard<\/a> explains why you may want to read something by Gerald Kersh (1911\u20131968), four of whose books are being republished.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Eccentronic Research Council<\/a> and Maxine Peake pay homage to Delia Derbyshire’s The Dreams<\/em> project with a new single out at the end of the month (Pye Corner Audio and Carol Morley appear on the flip). Ms Peake’s barm-cake reverie may be heard here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Applying for grants, writing artist statements, showing up to openings\u2014artists have to do far more than just make art if they want to find an audience for it.” Jen Graves<\/a> on lies and deception in the art world.<\/p>\n

The material does not make the work. The life does not make the art. Exactly the opposite. The work creates the material. The art creates the life. Did Trinidad exist before Naipaul? Did cargo ships exist before Joseph Conrad? Did Newark and the New Jersey suburbs exist before Philip Roth? Did women in playgrounds in New York City exist before Grace Paley? See how the writer invents the material? These places did not exist as literary subjects. They were invisible to literature. The magic of a great book is that it makes its own subject seem inevitable. The danger is, it makes the subject seem like the source of power in the work.<\/p>\n

Phyllis Rose<\/a> on life and literature.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 087<\/a>, 40 minutes of original electronic music by Geistform (Rafael Martinez Espinosa).<\/p>\n

\u2022 “You’ve Got This<\/a>“, an It Gets Better-style video support campaign for people recently diagnosed with HIV.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dangerous Minds: Babalon Working<\/em><\/a>: Brian Butler\u2019s trippy occult odyssey with Paz de la Huerta.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Manfred Mohr<\/a>‘s computer-created artwork, from the 1960s to the present.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Robert Macfarlane<\/a> on the strange world of urban exploration.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rick Poynor<\/a> on Bohumil Stepan’s Family Album of Oddities.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Oli Warwick talks to Martin Jenkins, aka Pye Corner Audio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The 384-page BUTT calendar<\/a> for 2014 is now on sale.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pye Corner Audio: We Have Visitors<\/em><\/a> (2010) | Toward Light<\/em><\/a> (2011) | The Mirror Ball Cracked<\/em><\/a> (2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pretty Pictures, a new book by designer Marian Bantjes, is out on October 1st. \u2022 A writer admired by Angela Carter, Michael Moorcock, Harlan Ellison, Anthony Burgess, Jonathan Meades and Iain Sinclair; a “writer’s writer…[whose]\u00a0best stories bear comparison with the Ficciones of Jorge Luis Borges”; a writer with an “unsettling quality to his writing, a … Continue reading “Weekend links 178”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,42,1029,4,29,7,5,3,16,15],"tags":[391,3053,998,5210,5208,1972,5204,5202,183,5207,1963,59,1687,218,5205,4059,1483,5209,1193,3996,65,5211,3509,5206,4222,1463,4773,3995],"class_list":["post-14318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-collage","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-music","category-occult","category-technology","tag-aleister-crowley","tag-angela-carter","tag-anthony-burgess","tag-bohumil-stepan","tag-brian-butler","tag-butt-magazine","tag-carol-morley","tag-david-collard","tag-delia-derbyshire","tag-geistform","tag-gerald-kersh","tag-harlan-ellison","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-iain-sinclair","tag-jen-graves","tag-jonathan-meades","tag-jorge-luis-borges","tag-manfred-mohr","tag-marian-bantjes","tag-maxine-peake","tag-michael-moorcock","tag-oli-warwick","tag-paz-de-la-huerta","tag-phyllis-rose","tag-pye-corner-audio","tag-rick-poynor","tag-robert-macfarlane","tag-the-eccentronic-research-council"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3IW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}