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“A No Act Non-Play Composed of Non-Scenes…”

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INTERVIEW WITH DAVID ČERNÝ & LOUIS ARMAND conducted by Ewelina Chiu at Meet Factory, on the occasion of the publication of the Czech translation of Armand’s Breakfast at Midnight (Snídaně o půlnoci – trans. David Vichnar. Prague: Argo, 2013). Pictured: “Barcode Baby” by David Černý, Prague.   Characters: David Černý (artist) Louis Armand (author) Ewelina … Continue reading →

THE RESISTANCE OF MEDIUM

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Republished from Louis Armand, The Organ-Grinder’s Monkey: Culture after the Avant-Garde (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2013) 59-72.*   Before the publication of his selected poems, Theremin, in 2011 (spanning work gathered over a twenty-year period),[1] Vincent Farnsworth’s reputation as a poet rested on only two small volumes and occasional publications in magazines like Idiot Tooth, Exquisite … Continue reading →

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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?…we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us” // Franz Kafka, letter to Oskar Pollack, 27 January 1904
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