{"id":8135,"date":"2010-10-24T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=8135"},"modified":"2013-02-03T04:08:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T04:08:16","slug":"weekend-links-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/24\/weekend-links-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 35"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marian Bantjes designs the cover of the latest Creative Review<\/a> and there’s a feature about her work inside.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “…the question: ‘was Shakespeare gay?’ strikes me as so daft as to be barely worth answering. Of course he was. Arguably he was bisexual, of sorts, but his heart was never on his straight side.” Don Paterson<\/a> throws the cat among the pigeons in an examination of the Shakespeare’s sonnets. Related (sort of): Shakespeare and Company: The bookshop that thinks it’s a hotel<\/a>. Also related: Jeanette Winterson revisits Shakespeare and Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 100 orbs of light float in the Schuylkill River<\/a>. Also in Philadelphia: Animators Amok in a Curiosity Cabinet<\/a>: the Brothers Quay are making a film in the M\u00fctter Museum. Can’t wait to see it.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More Alan Moore: Fossil Angels<\/em><\/a>, a lengthy essay about magic and the occult, was written in 2002 but hasn’t been given a public airing until now.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Alberto Manguel<\/a> is always worth reading:<\/p>\n

As Borges was well aware even then, the history of literature is the history of this paradox. On the one hand, the deeply rooted intuition writers have that the world exists, in Mallarm\u00e9\u2019s much-abused phrase, to result in a beautiful book (or, as Borges would have it, even a mediocre book), and, on the other hand, to know that the muse governing the enterprise is, as Mallarm\u00e9 called her, the Muse of Impotence (or, to use a freer translation, the Muse of Impossibility). Mallarm\u00e9 added later that all who have ever written anything, even those we call geniuses, have attempted this ultimate Book, the Book with a capital B. And all have failed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Here Comes Everybody: Wake In Progress<\/a> is a self-described “foolhardy attempt to illustrate Finnegans Wake<\/em>\u201d. Easier to illustrate than make a film of the book, I’d have thought, and Mary Ellen Bute<\/a> already attempted the latter.<\/p>\n

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Psychic Explosion<\/a>: Adolf Hoffmeister’s illustrations for a 1967 edition of Lautr\u00e9amont’s Poesies at A Journey Round My Skull.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Craig Colorusso\u2019s Sun Boxes<\/em><\/a> can be seen at Turner Falls, Massachusetts, during November.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Clive Hicks-Jenkins<\/a> has a book and retrospective exhibition of his art due next year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A sneak peek into The Steampunk Bible<\/em><\/a> to which I’m a contributor. And also here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Human or other; depends who comes”: the Ballardian films of Paul Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Transmission<\/em><\/a> (1979) by Joy Division; Transmission<\/em><\/a> (1995) by Low; Monkey<\/em><\/a> (2010) by Robert Plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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