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Poetry Column: The Morals Of A Meat Slicer — Sam Riviere On Minnis, Leon & Seidel
In the second instalment of his new column on contemporary poetry (abstractly titled 'Poetry Column'), Sam Riviere considers the writings of Chelsey Minnis, Frederick Seidel & Jon Leon from the starting point of Leon's own seemingly-innocuous declaration — taking in privilege, obscurity vs. self-exposure and the poet's own contempt for poetry en route — ‘Art is redemptive’
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“How Do You Love Garbage?” Atticus Lish Interviewed
Lauren Oyler sits down with PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novelist Atticus Lish to discuss a simultaneous influence and eschewing of minimalism, the secondary nature of language, and the gift of autonomy in relation to his full-length debut — Preparation For The Next Life — via sartorial guidance and looking for ninjas in the phone book
Black Sky Thinking
A Pressing Business: tQ Goes Inside A Czech Vinyl Plant
The success of Record Store Day has come at the price of manufacturing backlogs at the US and Europe's few remaining pressing plants. Lauren Martin visits GZ Media in the Czech Republic and speaks to UK company Keyproduction to look at the manufacturing process of vinyl and find out how they work to meet increasing demand
A Quietus Interview
Compelling Form: An Interview With Bruce
In the final year of his university music course, Bristol producer Bruce decided to leave behind electro-acoustic experimentation to make self-described 'bangers'. He tells Glenn Raymond why he's hoping to shake people's expectations with his mangled dancefloor constructions
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Moving & Being Moved: Poetry As Practice Contributors Interviewed
To mark the completion of — and provide some insight in to the work which collectively comprised — Rhizome and the New Museum's online-only Poetry as Practice exhibition, Sophie Collins sent a single set of questions to all six contributors, relaying below each of their voices in response to the ideas of translation and performance, poetry as media and digital media, the influence of the reader or viewer and the possible collapsing of 'poetry' as a discrete category
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Immigration As Erasal: On ‘Signs Preceding The End Of The World’
Pete Mitchell considers Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World — the author's only full-length work currently translated in to English — in the light and shadow of its macho, othering, counterparts in Anglophone border fiction, as well as its translated contemporaries, and the spectre of that last great imaginary line in the sand
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A Babylonian Tower: Marc Hollander’s Favourite Music
Marc Hollander's Aksak Maboul have released one of the albums of the year and his Crammed Discs label have consistently provided a wide-ranging soundtrack to the globe. He guides David McKenna through favourite albums in this week's Baker's Dozen
