In this wonderfully surprising, playful and stirring book, Jodzio introduces a gallery of offbeat characters forced to navigate the dire situations and trials presented by life. His plotting is imaginative enough to be at times almost surreal but in the end, each story is grounded in very human emotions: grief, loneliness, love.
Tag Archives: Emily Nonko
The Exquisite Corpse?: ‘Lacan at the Scene’ by Henry Bond
February 5, 2010 – 12:18 pm
How to consider the space captured in a photograph, and what can we consider truth within an image? In a photograph my image exists outside of my physical body but does my body still live in a photograph? When applied to the photography of dead bodies, specifically crime scene photography, these questions take an interesting turn.
Daniel Nester
December 18, 2009 – 5:00 pm
Daniel Nester is the kind of writer who looks at his book as an opportunity to be honest with you, and hopefully make you laugh. Which I did, while reading his latest book, How to Be Inappropriate, just out this past fall.
LOVE IN INFANT MONKEYS by Lydia Millet
October 7, 2009 – 4:48 pm
In Lydia Millet’s BOMB Interview with Jonathan Lethem, Millet speaks of her captivation with animals, saying “Animals are like rock stars, they have that charisma.” In Millet’s new short story collection, Love in Infant Monkeys, she treats animals as rock star characters, paralleling them with real-life celebrities to create stories both eccentric and, in unexpected ways, honest.
Stephen Elliott
September 30, 2009 – 4:42 pm
The Adderall Diaries, a nonfiction work written by Stephen Elliott and out this month, is not a book about Adderall. And though Elliott’s intent was to focus on the murder trial of Hans Reiser, It really isn’t even a book about murder. While the trial lends The Adderall Diaries a focused storyline, the more intriguing parts focus on Elliott himself, as he attempts to piece together his past and his uncertain future.
THE REGULARS by Sarah Stolfa
September 28, 2009 – 1:39 pm
There’s a frustration I face with modern photography—glossy spreads in magazines and head shots and landscapes. With the advent of Photoshop, everything just looks too perfect.
Making God: Jonathon Keats
September 4, 2009 – 2:03 pm
Where to begin with San Francisco based artist Jonathon Keats? I first came across his work on the cover of Opium Magazine: he was the mastermind behind the “Longest Story Ever Told,” a nine word story covered in black ink that will reveal itself gradually over 1000 years.
Coney Island Performers Keep the Freakiness Alive
March 9, 2009 – 2:45 pm
Visiting Coney Island nowadays always makes me nostalgic for a past I’ve never experienced—but it’s nevertheless depressing to see amusement rides shut down, surrounded in fences and guarded by Rotweillers.
Chris Schlarb: Making Sense out of Noise
February 10, 2009 – 3:59 pm
Chris Schlarb makes music out of other people’s music. So when I heard that he was performing his album, Twilight and Ghost Stories, in its entirety at The Stone in Alphabet City, I wondered how he could perform a piece that was composed of sound bytes from more than 50 different artists. Turns out, he [...]
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