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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
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The Four-Dimensional Human: In Conversation With Laurence Scott
Michael John sits down to talk with Laurence Scott — author of The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of living in the digital world — about the erosion and universality of celebrity culture, economic claustrophobia, the nature of an ever-present digital past and the prophetic powers of The Simpsons. (Photograph: Jean Baudrillard — Saint Clement, 1987)
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Myth, Magic & Social Media: An Interview With Alejandro Jodorowsky
Karl Smith sits down and talks - via the very real and very practical magic of Skype - with Chilean filmmaker, artist and novelist Alejandro Jodorowsky about the social purpose of myth, the tyranny of capitalism and fossil fuel extraction, the art of twitter and his life-long mission to heal himself and the world
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Verfreundungseffekt: Make The Call – Translation As Afterlife/Reincarnation
The latest instalment of Jen Calleja's Verfreundungseffekt column puts into play a game of Chinese Whispers on a poem by Sam Riviere — with help from Chrissy Williams, Laura Tenschert, Livia Franchini and Jack Underwood — considering the value and the possibilities of translating a translation, flipping Walter Benjamin the bird in the process. (Illustration by Richard Phœnix)
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The Body Poetic: An Interview With Luna Miguel
Emily Berry speaks to Spanish poet, editor and journalist Luna Miguel - via a translation by Electric Cereal editor Luis Silva - about the personal significance of mermaids and tattoos, life, death, community, why inspiration is like orgasm, and guts of both the metaphorical and literal sorts. (Photograph by Laura Rosal)
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Goldsmith, Place & What Gringpo Means For Your Reading
Tim MacGabhann, Mariana Rodríguez and John Z. Komurki — Editors of Mexico City Lit — consider racial and gender exclusivity, cultural appropriation and erasure in the light of Kenneth Goldsmith's 'Body of Michael Brown', Vanessa Place's Mammy-toting twitter feed and the Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo
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Positivity As Tension: On Kim Kardashian’s Marriage
From its password-protected tumblr past to a purple-hued Faber present, Charles Whalley re-examines Sam Riviere's latest collection — Kim Kardashian's Marriage — via data processing, flarf (and post-flarf) poetry, the commodification of the self and the cultural tragedy of reality vs. expectation. (Image by Yung Jake)
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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
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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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Human Voices: Carola Dibbell Interviewed
Eric Obenauf, publisher and editor at the excellent Two Dollar Radio, talks to rightly-celebrated rock critic, writer and — as of this month — novelist, Carola Dibbell about being an out "women's libber" in the male-dominated 70s music-writing scene, the potential for stream-crossing in music criticism and fiction and, of course, her debut novel The Only Ones. (Artwork by Greg Skrtic)
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Out Of Our Dwam: An Interview With Momus
Oscar Gaynor speaks to the authorial element of writer/musician Momus' multifariously-split artistic personality about his new free-to-download book, Herr F, the limits and possibilities of fog, arts culture post-Here Comes Everybody and the social functions of acting
