The Interesting Times #285 (29.6.26)

Issue #285

• Plugging into an electric socket. >>As If.

• Nine readings. >>Landfall Tauraka 251.

• Memory and influence. >>Transcription.

• In the casebooks. >>Said the Dead.

• Intelligence and cosciousness are very different things. >>Books by Olga Ravn.

• It starts with the spoken word. >>Black Sugarcane.

• We should all say things it takes us years to understand. >>My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein.

• Ruth of Southland, with her glass eye and cardigans. >>A Writer’s Life. >>This Moment, Every Moment.

• How did we change from being a place of talking and treaty-making to a place of bloodshed and violence? >>Garrison World.

• The Disneyfication of nature. >>Hum.

• Really impressive. >>The Valley.

• Before assassination. >>Men in the Sun.

• Systematic erasure. >>Ungrounding.

• Fiction comes from what you don’t know. >>Land.

• The final word. >>Schattenfroh.

• Unlocked. >>Transcription.

• Profoundly human. >>Books by Bachmann.

• Life is not fair. >>Some books by Anne Carson.

• Lorem ispum. >>Lorem Ipsum. >>Loren Ipsum.

• The life of a publishing press.

• Nine orders of snow.

• Sliding from view.

• "You shouldn’t trust people who read. They might be writing things that’ll be dangerous to you.’”

• One-time and equivalent designer for Ubu.

• How books became sexy.

• Our film recommendation this week: No Other Choice.

• Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine.