Dolly Delightly is granted an audience with New York performer, artist and ‘downright dirty’ author Stephen C. Bird Writer, performer and artist Stephen C. Bird was born in Ontario, Canada, but has spent most of his life in New York City. He studied theatre with the Stella Adler Conservatory in association with New York University, […]
Sweeping Narratives: Joan Didion
Kevin Fitzgerald gathers together the narrative fragments of Didion’s novels and finds that identity is a collaborative process In her essay ‘Facing Reality’, Marilynne Robinson likens our present model of the world to so much ‘floorsweep’ – the meagre skimmings from a hundred years’ worth of economics, history, technology merged into a seamless narrative. It […]
How I Work: Nuno Cera
Futureland is a photographic and video portrait of the effects of rapid urbanisation Futureland #17 – Shanghai, China, 2010. Ink jet print, 110 x 145 cm © Nuno Cera and Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, reproduced with thanks Nuno Cera’s project Futureland catches the process of rapid urbanisation in the act. Between 2008 and 2010, the […]
Ralph Steadman: Today’s Pig Is Tomorrow’s Bacon
Gonzo scribbler, internet entrepreneur and backing vocalist for Eliza Carthy, Ralph Steadman spills the beans on being ripped off and Hunter S. Thompson’s mother. Chris Wood listens. “I felt savaged a bit by the whole thing… Hunter was in the middle of institutionalising his mother at the time, for her drinking. Great lady, by the […]
Enmeshed: Gay & Lesbian Latino-Americans in Los Angeles’ Eastside Scene
Los Angeles author and filmmaker Vanessa Libertad Garcia writes about the subcultural life that informs her writing The Voting Booth After Dark: Despicable, Embarrassing, Repulsive delves into the unique subculture of a specific, and frequently overlooked, group of Latino-Americans. The book’s protagonists are comprised of first generation Latino-Americans in their twenties who were born in […]
Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski’s LA Bus Tour
Take a ride on the wild side with Esotouric’s tours of LA’s underbelly “We’re not your ordinary tour company,” suggests the website of Los Angeles-based Esotouric. Indeed. Rather than curb crawling around Laurel Canyon squinting at George Clooney’s house through binoculars, Richard Schave and Kim Cooper offer tours the rest of us want to see. […]
The Agony and the Sweat: A Southern Author on Southern Gothic
Stinson Carter, journalist and author of Southern Gothic novel False River, offers a personal introduction to the genre Tennessee Williams called it “Romanticized Melancholy”. William Faulkner called it “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself”. Southern Gothic Literature has as many definitions as it does voices. It is not Gothic, nor should […]
James Turrell: Roden Crater
James Turrell’s Roden Crater project has been in the offing for several decades, will 2011 finally see it open to the public? James Turrell, Dhātu, 2010 Mixed media, dimensions variable Courtesy Gagosian Gallery “I’m very American, very direct. I don’t want something to be about light, I just want to use light. I want light […]
