{"id":19088,"date":"2019-04-07T01:04:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T00:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19088"},"modified":"2019-04-14T02:06:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T01:06:39","slug":"weekend-links-459","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2019\/04\/07\/weekend-links-459\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 459"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2022 “Their graves were covered with cement tiles to block the radiation emanating from their corpses.” Sophie Pinkham<\/a> reviews three books about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dangerous Minds: Julius Eastman: The resurrection of the visionary minimalist composer continues<\/a>; at The Quietus: The Strange World of Julius Eastman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: a Dune<\/em>-inspired Secret Thirteen Mix 286 by Coeden<\/a><\/em>, and ’94\u201395 Mirrorverse by The Ephemeral Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nabokov had meanwhile acquired a literary agent in New York. She made no headway placing translations of his Russian novels. His latest, she informed him, was \u201cdazzlingly brilliant\u201d and hence wholly without promise for the American market. She suggested something more topical, an idea that left her client hyperventilating. \u201cNothing,\u201d he would roar later, \u201cbores me more than political novels and the literature of social unrest.\u201d He was, he enlightened his representative, neither Sinclair Lewis nor Upton Sinclair. (Ultimately he tossed the two over the cliff together, as \u201cUpton Lewis.\u201d) Weeks later, in the bathroom of a Paris studio apartment, he began \u2014 \u201ca champion figure skater switching to roller skates,\u201d as he complained, speaking for whole cadres of displaced professionals \u2014 to write in English.<\/p>\n

Stacy Schiff<\/a> on Vladimir Nabokov, literary refugee<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Iain Sinclair<\/a> on Ghosts of a Ghost: William Burroughs, time surgery and the death of the image.<\/p>\n

\u2022 ST Joshi<\/a> remembers Lovecraftian writer Wilum Pugmire (RIP).<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Conspirators: A Borgean Tribute to Jorge Luis Borges<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jasper Sharp<\/a> on where to begin with Japanese cyberpunk.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Greg Anderson<\/a> on the new Sunn O))) album, Life Metal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Drew Daniel<\/a> of Matmos picks his Bandcamp favourites.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Kraken surfaces for Clive Hicks-Jenkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 An interview with Brian Eno<\/a> by Suite (212).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Apocalypse Now: Final Cut<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Book of Weirdo<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Conspiracy Of Silence<\/a><\/em> (1994) by Cypher 7 | The Vodun Conspiracy<\/a><\/em> (1996) by The Sidewinder | Machine Conspiracy<\/a><\/em> (2010) by Conforce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 “Their graves were covered with cement tiles to block the radiation emanating from their corpses.” Sophie Pinkham reviews three books about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. \u2022 At Dangerous Minds: Julius Eastman: The resurrection of the visionary minimalist composer continues; at The Quietus: The Strange World of Julius Eastman. \u2022 Mixes of the week: a … Continue reading “Weekend links 459”<\/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":[52,2,42,27,28,9,29,7,3,12,20],"tags":[2088,145,9896,767,9999,10005,10003,2377,10002,218,8956,1483,8472,2378,8297,4599,608,10000,2147,5321,10004,807,1190,10001],"class_list":["post-19088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art","category-books","category-borges","category-burroughs","category-comics","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","category-photography","category-science-fiction","tag-apocalypse-now","tag-brian-eno","tag-chernobyl","tag-clive-hicks-jenkins","tag-coeden","tag-conforce","tag-cypher-7","tag-drew-daniel","tag-greg-anderson","tag-iain-sinclair","tag-jasper-sharp","tag-jorge-luis-borges","tag-julius-eastman","tag-matmos","tag-sidewinder","tag-sophie-pinkham","tag-st-joshi","tag-stacy-schiff","tag-sunn-o","tag-the-ephemeral-man","tag-the-sidewinder","tag-vladimir-nabokov","tag-william-burroughs","tag-wilum-pugmire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4XS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088","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=19088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}