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Anti-Vanitas (2018) by Carrie Ann Baade<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP Richard Corben<\/a>, an artist whose work I wasn’t always keen on but whose enthusiasm for pulp weirdness and cosmic horror was matched by a pulp vitality of his own. Corben’s Den<\/em> was the first story in the first issue of Heavy Metal<\/em>, a strip in which Den’s ever-present penis provided some rare equality of nudity in American comics. Corben was also a lifelong Lovecraftian; his 1972 adaptation of The Rats in the Walls<\/em><\/a> is one of the earliest Lovecraft-derived comic strips.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Wit was the great man\u2019s defence. Once, crossing Leicester Square with a friend, he looked up and saw a cinema marquee advertising a new film: Michael Redgrave and Dirk Bogarde in The Sea Shall Not Have Them<\/em>. Coward turned to his friend and said: ‘I don\u2019t see why not. Everyone else has.'” Philip Hoare<\/a> on No\u00ebl Coward’s private lives: the photographs that could have landed him in jail.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The end of the year brings the lists: Strange Flowers’ Secret Satan, 2020<\/a> is a guide to a surfeit of delectable volumes, while at 3 Quarks Daily Dave Maier<\/a> selects his favourite ambient music of the year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not an easy life, but for Layne it is better than the alternative. “There is a generation of writers who think that it is a perfectly acceptable thing to accumulate a couple of hundred thousand dollars in student loan debt and go write “takes”\u2014contrary opinion on things like \u2018Why Dogs Are Actually The Worst Pet.\u2019” None of it is new, he says, “it\u2019s what people were doing when Rome burned.” But it has left us worse off, he says.<\/p>\n

“I feel like we are post-language now,” he says. “Things are more symbolic. The relationship between words and facts and objectivity and their impact seems to have separated to the point where most of the writing that I see, especially on something like Twitter, is by people baffled that people don\u2019t get what they are trying to say. It\u2019s depressing.”<\/p>\n

Dominic Rushe on how Ken Layne<\/a> created an alternative to clickbait in the desert<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 “Underworlds, otherworlds, so many passageways on this earth to elsewheres, especially during these weeks of the year.” Nina MacLaughlin<\/a> on The Shadows below the Shadows.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dennis Cooper<\/a>‘s favourite fiction, poetry, non-fiction, film, art, and internet of 2020. Thanks again for the link here!<\/p>\n

\u2022 The week in strange worlds: The Strange World of Colossive Press<\/a>, and The Strange World of Robbie Basho<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Images Wish To Speak: An interview with artist Carrie Ann Baade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jackson Arn<\/a> on why so many filmmakers have paid homage to Pieter Bruegel.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Physicists nail down the \u201cMagic Number\u201d that shapes the Universe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dreams, Built By Hand<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Shadow<\/a><\/em> (1990) by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Shadows<\/a><\/em> (1994) by Pram | Shadow Of A Twisted Hand Across My House<\/em><\/a> (2001) by I.E.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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