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THE WHITE DEVIL: ORDER NOW
From noir master Domenic Stansberry, the chilling tale of a young woman, an aspiring actress—and her too charming brother—implicated in a series of murders dating back to her childhood.
"Stansberry nails the sultry, decadent tone with one perfectly place hammer stroke after another." -Booklist
"Edgar winner Stansberry takes the reader on a wild read in this exceptional noir . . . compelling reading."- Publishers Weekly starred review
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NOT FILM, a documentary by Ross LIppman, about FILM, the odd collaboration between Beckett and silent film legend Buster Keaton and Barney Rosset (publisher of Grove Press, who acted as producer). Great archival and interview footage with all the above, as we’ll as actress Billie Whitelaw who has been described as Beckett;s muse and acted under great physical duress in many of his plays. Available to watch on Fandor, online subscription service. DS
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In 1964 author Samuel Beckett set out on one of the strangest ventures in cinematic history: his embattled collaboration with silent era genius Buster Keaton on the production of a short, titleless avant-garde film. Beckett was nearing the peak of his fame, which would culminate in his receiving a Nobel Prize five years later. Keaton, in his waning years, never lived to see Beckett’s canonization. The film they made along with director Alan Schneider, renegade publisher Barney Rosset, and Academy Award-winning cinematographer Boris Kaufman, has been the subject of praise, condemnation, and controversy for decades. Yet the eclectic participants are just one part of a story that stretches to the very birth of cinema, and spreads out to our understanding of human consciousness itself.
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Dada Manifesto: Tristan Tzara, limited edition, released in conjunction with Dada World Fair, November 1-13, City Lights Bookstore. Edited, translated, annihilated by Gillian Conoley w/ Domenic Stansberry.
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from @Rumpus via The Millions
Writers experience all sorts of anxieties and doubts, such that many find themselves taking a spiraling descent into the worst existential crises. No writer should feel alone in this….
“In Life and Work, Parks writes about Beckett and 19 other writers, including Fyodor Dostoevsky, Georges Simenon, Muriel Spark, Peter Stamm, Haruki Murakami, Stieg Larsson, and E.L. James (Parks examining Fifty Shades of Grey is great fun). Here and there in the collection, one occasionally glimpses the true existential cost of the so-called “writer’s life,” where writing is both an act of self-abnegation — with all of its consequent anxieties — as well as a struggle against such a personalized nihilism.
Simenon
Spark turned to Catholicism
The Driver’s Seat, by Muriel Spark, also made into a film starring Liz Taylor. The book is funny, strange, suspenseful story of a seemingly unbalanced young English woman who goes on a sudden trip to Rome in search of “her type” of man. Told with use of prolepsis (sudden, and brief flash forwards) that foreshadow the books grisly end, it is as much a story of a madness as a crucifixion tale, a complex examination of the relationship between victim and victimizer. Spark, who wrote a number of thrillers–and regarded herself as a Catholic allegorist–did not exactly please her fans with this tale. The movie starring Liz Taylor has been panned as one of the worst performance of her career, during a period in which she appeared in a lot of films that disappointed her audience, but her performance in this film is pretty much spot on. True, the film doesn’t have the same suspense as the novel, and their are nuances of paradox in the heroine’s quest–and the murder’s motivation–that don’t quite come off in the film, but it’s still a good one: maybe more so if you’ve read the book. This is one of Spark’s more interesting novels, and Taylor at her flooziest, sexiest, and enigmatic best. DS
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https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/11/specials/spark-seat.html
“That cop is shooting at me, he guessed; then, before he realized he’d been hit, he was hit again, his neck snapped backward, and the crowd went silent, watching, as he fell against the outfield grass.”