Author: Pierre Joris

Henry Roth, the author of Call it Sleep and 5 other books, would have been 100 today. I have been searching unsuccessfully for my copy of that novel — like the Vaneigem it is...

Rereading Raoul Vaneigem is a breath of fresh air. For some years now his ex-comrade-in-situationism Guy Debord has been getting all the attention, but for many of us, me included, it was reading his...

NICOLE PEYRAFITTEIn a MUSICO/VOCO/VISUAL CABARETof French Songs, Improvisations & VideosFriday February 10th 2006 8PM – $10/8 CAFFE LENA 47 Phila StreetSaratoga Springs NY(518) 583 0022 With:TRIO PAMPLEMOUSSEGeorge Muscatello GuitarDanny Whelchel Percussion & withYuko KishimotoPiano...

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Anne Tardos emailed her homage to Nam June Paik today; I asked her for permission to post it here. Which she kindly granted.

The mail brought an invite from Poets House in New York (that unhappily I can’t take up) to go enjoy a daylong festival celebrating more than eight centuries of Catalan poetry on February 11th....

Bush’s State of the Union Speech this evening will be simulcast in English.

A favorite of mine is the 1974 work that has a classical Buddha statue meditating in front of a tv screen that shows the meditating Buddha. Flickering mimetic repetition or eternal return? The wheel...

Larry Siems, the PEN American Director of the Freedom to Write and International Programs, has just informed me that PEN — which is already helping Gennady with a gift from their emergency fund —...

If you missed the silent auction of Tom Nattell’s art at the Firlefanz Gallery this past weekend, don’t miss tonight’s event: if you are in Albany NY, come celebrate Tom’s life on the anniversary...