"As the Nazis approached Paris, the American Colony broke camp & abandoned the city like rats from a sinking ship. Behind them they left a frail, elderly, impoverished, homeless Irish-American who, as a young man, had been an heir to wealth, a close friend to Beardsley & Wilde, & the only important American in the 1890s Aesthetic movement of England & France. He was
Vincent O'Sullivan, one of the world's great authors of horror fiction..."
[more inside]
posted by Iridic
on May 7, 2012 -
9 comments
Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet...
Today is the feast of Epiphany, the last day of the traditional Christmas season; the day also when the Misses Morkan held that grand affair, their annual dance, in James Joyce's
"The Dead." [more inside]
posted by Iridic
on Jan 6, 2012 -
71 comments
A Cyclops' cave the wanderers brave
And find much milk & cheese
But as they eat, foul death they meet
For them doth Cyclops seize.
From
The Young Folks' Ulysses [PDF], by H. Lovecraft, poet, aged seven. One of the "freely available editions of obscure, outlandish and otherwise outré works of semi-fine literature" from
the electric publishing wing of
kobek.com.
posted by Iridic
on Mar 28, 2011 -
8 comments
This may only occur to the obsessive student of The Parent Trap, but once the subtleties are noticed, hints start stacking up, and a creeping sense of the mythic pervades the film...
Join Chris Stangl,
King of the Beanplaters, as he obsessively studies
The Parent Trap,
Little Shop of Horrors,
Beetlejuice,
Teen Wolf, the original
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and
more.
posted by Iridic
on Oct 28, 2010 -
33 comments
Dalkey Archive conversations with
William Burroughs,
Angela Carter,
Robert Creeley,
William Gaddis,
William H. Gass,
Danilo Kis,
Harry Mathews,
Richard Powers,
Raymond Queneau,
Hubert Selby,
William T. Vollman,
David Foster Wallace, and
many other writers.
posted by Iridic
on Oct 12, 2008 -
9 comments
In the summer of 1897, the Devil transported a
minor Decadent poet named Enoch Soames one hundred years into the future to see what posterity would make of
his work. The only witness to the affair was the parodist
Max Beerbohm, whose
account of Soames and his journey ensured that at 2:10 P.M. on June 7, 1997, some dozen pilgrims waited in the Round Reading Room of the British Museum
to see the poet appear...
posted by Iridic
on Jul 22, 2008 -
26 comments
The Jack Trevor Story Memorial Prize "is generally awarded for a work of fiction or body of work which, in the
opinion of the committee, best celebrates the spirit of
Jack Trevor Story. The conditions of the prize are that the money shall be spent in a week to a fortnight and the author have nothing to show for it at the end of that time." The 2006 winner of the prize is
Steve Aylett.
posted by Iridic
on Dec 11, 2006 -
6 comments
Put a little commerce in your art with Lulu's
Titlescorer, a widget that analyzes your book title's chances of gracing the top of the New York Time's bestseller list.
posted by Iridic
on Nov 26, 2006 -
69 comments
