I make books, etc. On Mastodon: @dbvisel@assemblag.es
Singapore
Joined November 2010
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Blusky isn't wonderful, but at least it isn't suing the ADL:
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Very happy that Raquel Salas Rivera's translation THE RUST OF HISTORY has been longlisted for the National Translation Award: circumferencebooks.com/book/…
I wrote a piece for @efluxcriticism on Heman Chong & Renée Staal's itinerant Library of Unread Books: e-flux.com/criticism/527590/… – thanks to @francescawade for improving this!
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PEN managed to scoop us in announcing the next book for @CircBooks, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's translation of of Vinod Kumar Shukla's poetry! Shukla's getting the 2023 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature: pen.org/press-release/vinod-…
If anyone's still here, there's a launch for the new @CircBooks book at Bureau in New York on March 3: circumferencebooks.com/thoug… – I'll be making a rare Western Hemisphere appearance!
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@ClbyChamberlain Is this Charlotte Moorman letterhead a Maciunas design? archive.kaldorartprojects.or… – there's a blank sheet for sale here: detritus.com/maser/e-catalog…
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CHEECH & CHONG'S UP IN SMOKE is playing in Singapore this weekend! It is sensibly forbidden to those under the age of 21: asianfilmarchive.org/event-c…
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". . . six more were airborne clutter, such as birds or trash" ( nytimes.com/2023/01/12/us/po… )
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I hadn't known the Exact Change origin story involved Charles Simic: dadadrummer.substack.com/p/c…
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“. . . excellent both as a man and a Methodist, as his fathers had been before him, but falling short of them in not being excellent as a grocer as well . . .” (Ivy Compton-Burnett, DOLORES)
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@helendewitt Out of curiosity, have you seen what Rekha doeswith Urdu poetry? See here for example: rekhta.org/poets/zeb-ghauri/… – click on one of the transliterated words. Mentioned here: nytimes.com/2022/12/18/world…
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An odd thing noticed rereading DeLillo’s WHITE NOISE: the bad doctor Willie Minke seems like he almost might be Minke, the Javanese protagonist of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s BURU QUARTET, playing another role.
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The ending of BEAU TRAVAIL is still the best ending of anything ever: youtube.com/watch?v=grGiq0yT…
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I wrote and directed an adaptation of Percival Everett's "Erasure." I got to make it with some idols of mine, Jeffrey Wright being one of them. We're gonna try to put it out before the world ends. ✌️🏾✌️🏾✌️🏾 deadline.com/2022/11/jeffrey…
