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PEOPLE THINKING THOUGHTS ON THINGS SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
Columns | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
PEOPLE THINKING THOUGHTS ON THINGS SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: Tools, Typewriters, & Madeline Gins
"We know language is a versatile tool. But even instruction, definition, and quantification are mutable" - Kelly Krumrie
10 Things You Should Definitely Know About Professor Milford Graves
Professor Milford Graves moved onward & upward to whatever comes next on February 12, 2021, just in time for Lunar New Year. I heard about his illness sometime in summer 2020 & began writing this piece shortly thereafter. I seem to have finished it just as Graves’ corporeal phase has finished. Professor Graves, thank you for a lifetime of inspiration.
Thoughts On ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin: The Untold Story of the Wu Tang Clan’s Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America’s New Public Enemy No. 1’ by Cyrus Bozorgmehr
To my pleasant surprise, this book was: 1) written by an active participant in the project. 2) much more like reading a thriller of some sort than a drily dull non-fiction music-biz tome or myth-building celeb-bio potboiler. 3) chock full of manic philosophizing on music, art, industry, value, capitalism, anarchy, & so forth.
Julia Cohen’s and Abby Hagler’s “Original Obsessions”: An Interview with Athena Dixon
Original Obsessions seeks to discover the origins of writerly curiosity -- the gestation and development of these imaginings -- focusing on early fixations that burrowed into an author's psyche and that reappear in their current book. In this installment, Julia Cohen and Abby Hagler interview Athena Dixon, author of The Incredible Shrinking Woman.
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: 2020 Roundup
Kelly Krumrie's figuring 2020 Roundup Figuring is [...]
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: Review of Willy Smart’s “Switch Wish”
"I’ve been excited about a lot of books lately, but few have made me annotate, text photos of pages to folks, flip back and forth, make little ooo ahhh sounds as much as Willy Smart’s Switch Wish." - Kelly Krumrie
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: Tools, Typewriters, & Madeline Gins
"We know language is a versatile tool. But even instruction, definition, and quantification are mutable" - Kelly Krumrie
10 Things You Should Definitely Know About Professor Milford Graves
Professor Milford Graves moved onward & upward to whatever comes next on February 12, 2021, just in time for Lunar New Year. I heard about his illness sometime in summer 2020 & began writing this piece shortly thereafter. I seem to have finished it just as Graves’ corporeal phase has finished. Professor Graves, thank you for a lifetime of inspiration.
Thoughts On ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin: The Untold Story of the Wu Tang Clan’s Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America’s New Public Enemy No. 1’ by Cyrus Bozorgmehr
To my pleasant surprise, this book was: 1) written by an active participant in the project. 2) much more like reading a thriller of some sort than a drily dull non-fiction music-biz tome or myth-building celeb-bio potboiler. 3) chock full of manic philosophizing on music, art, industry, value, capitalism, anarchy, & so forth.
Julia Cohen’s and Abby Hagler’s “Original Obsessions”: An Interview with Athena Dixon
Original Obsessions seeks to discover the origins of writerly curiosity -- the gestation and development of these imaginings -- focusing on early fixations that burrowed into an author's psyche and that reappear in their current book. In this installment, Julia Cohen and Abby Hagler interview Athena Dixon, author of The Incredible Shrinking Woman.
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: 2020 Roundup
Kelly Krumrie's figuring 2020 Roundup Figuring is [...]
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: Review of Willy Smart’s “Switch Wish”
"I’ve been excited about a lot of books lately, but few have made me annotate, text photos of pages to folks, flip back and forth, make little ooo ahhh sounds as much as Willy Smart’s Switch Wish." - Kelly Krumrie