Latest video
Close
Video from
keeping hansel and gretel on a short leashShake your hips
Category Archives: Literature/poetry/spoken word
sages of the stoop and curb
In New York, people of all sorts freely mix with each other; but only slightly do they thaw and melt into a common pool of humanity. Edward Adler: Notes From a Dark Street. 1962. ….Martyrdom and suffering recounted in some … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Adad Hannah, Allen Ginsberg, Dante Inferno, Edward Adler, Edward Adler writer, gericault raft of the medusa, Henry Fielding, James Joyce, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Saul Bellow, Theodore Gericault, William Dafoe
Leave a comment
taxi driver: fare game
The antithesis between Edward Adler and his art could not have been more extreme. He lived on 11th Street near Avenue D on New York’s East Side, in a brick building well over a hundred years old; not a historical … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged East Side/West Side television series, Edward Adler, Edward Adler writer, eugene goodheart, frank converse, George C. Scott, graham russell gao hodges, Jack Warden, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, N.Y.P.D. television series, robert hooks
Leave a comment
the spoken word and its double
Weird Stuff.But brilliant. Steve “Jesse” Bernstein. Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Lou Reed; looking under the rocks of the American fantasy and examining a sensibility of the irrational when fantasy and reality are at each other’s throats. An American product but … Continue reading
short lease: after this commercial break
The industry of memory. A industry setting boundaries on how we remember and the nature of interpretation. Ultimately, you can’t really portray real life tragedy. Even the original experiences of the holocaust victims, those closest to near death experiences are … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged albert hackett, Ann Frank, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Museum, Bruno Schulz, Elie Wiesel, frances goodrich, Gene Wilder, holocaust industry, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Norman Finkelstein, Otto Frank, Primo Levi, sharon dogar
Leave a comment
where shall i seek you
The plausibility of Elie Wiesel asserting the importance of the holocaust as comparable and of equal significance to the events of Mount Sinai does seem like poetic lyricism gone amok and the elevation of the tragic to fetishised narrative of … Continue reading
whose face did he see?
There is a paradox to Henry Miller. The two Tropics books are among the foulest books ever written. Cancer is bad enough, but Capricorn gets worse as it goes on and reached depths of vileness which are really indescribable. Miller’s … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Aristophanes, ben grauer, Carl Jung, Charles Baudelaire, D.H. Lawrence, Francois Rabelais, Henry Miller, James Joyce, karl shapiro, Lawrence Durrell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, William Blake
Leave a comment
the essential thing is to want to sing
Having read the first few sentences of Tropic of Cancer, you will remember them. Henry Miller can use the language. He writes strong, biting, memorable, vivid prose. Often it is unjust to begin criticizing a book by taking out its … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged alfred perles, Allen Ginsberg, anais nin, Beat Poets, ben grauer, ben grauer interview henry miller, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, karl shapiro, Lawrence Durrell, Le sphinx paris, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, William S. Burroughs, Wittgenstein
Leave a comment
streaming the villa borghese
When you first start reading Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, it is easy to reach the verdict it was written during a series of lengthy drinking bouts. Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged a.e. housman, alfred perles, Allen Ginsberg, anais nin, ben grauer, Chales Bukowski, Erica Jong, Eve McClure, Henry Miller, Henry Miller tropic of cancer, Jack Kerouac, kathy acker, Lawrence Durrell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno
Leave a comment
distrusting the utopian prophets
Its an odd way to define oneself: a tory anarchist. Maybe for max Beerbohm it was a reaction to the times; a refuge in this tidal wave of elitist white racist socialism that was so popularized by the likes of … Continue reading
COMMENTS
