Category Archives: literature

Fair Trade/New York Art Book Fair/Book Trust Prospectus

Posted on November 24, 2010 by chris

This year, much of the talk about the New York Art Book Fair seems to be centered on the Fair itself. Fueling some of this talk, whether expressly stated or not, is a simple question: how, in the midst of … Continue reading →

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Infinite Jest outtakes

Posted on November 23, 2010 by chris

What didn’t make it into ‘Infinite Jest’ (via Forever DFW)

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Ancient Man

Posted on November 18, 2010 by chris

Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations Written and Drawn and Done into Color by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, A.B., PH.D. New York. Boni & Liveright. 1920

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The Realist Archive Project

Posted on November 18, 2010 by chris

http://ep.tc/realist

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Cabinet insert

Posted on November 10, 2010 by chris

Found this in an old issue of Cabinet magazine (Issue 18, Fictional States, Summer 2005). I now love Die Keure even more. [click image to enlarge]

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Oslo Editions: Contra Mundum I–VII

Posted on November 6, 2010 by chris

THE INITIAL invitation to curate a lecture series came in the spring of last year from Justin Beal, who asked us to put something together for the Mandrake, an artist-run bar in LA. The title Contra Mundum comes from Brideshead … Continue reading →

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On Self Respect

Posted on October 29, 2010 by chris

by Joan Didion Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel … Continue reading →

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Infinite Jest, page 160

Posted on October 24, 2010 by chris

Bodies bodies everywhere. A tennis ball is the ultimate body, kid. We’re coming to the crux of what I have to try to impart to you before we get out there and start actuating this fearsome potential of yours. Jim, … Continue reading →

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In Praise of Copying

Posted on October 24, 2010 by chris

Given the topic and stance of In Praise of Copying, I wanted the text to participate openly in the circulation of copies that we see flourishing all around us. I approached Harvard to discuss options and they agreed to make … Continue reading →

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Quentin Crisp

Posted on October 18, 2010 by chris
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The Lake

Posted on October 16, 2010 by chris

The Lake Edgar Allan Poe, 1927 In youth’s spring, it was my lot To haunt of the wide earth a spot The which I could not love the less; So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black … Continue reading →

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Infinite Jest, page 159

Posted on August 6, 2010 by chris

know you know. I know you’ve looked at it before, many times. Now … now see it, Jim. See it as body. The dull-colored handle, the clockwise latch, the bits of bug trapped when the paint was wet and now … Continue reading →

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Organization

Posted on June 23, 2010 by chris

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1288901/Teenage-drug-dealers-list-Go-rob-sell-weed.html

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Infinite Jest, page 158

Posted on June 18, 2010 by chris

roared by. Jim, she never intuited the gentle and cunning economy behind this man’s quote harsh sloppy unstudied approach to objects. The way he’d oh so clearly practiced a chair’s back-leg tilt over and over. The way he’d studied objects … Continue reading →

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(e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs

Posted on May 19, 2010 by chris

This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought – our thought, the thought that bears the stamp of our age … Continue reading →

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Infinite Jest, page 157

Posted on April 7, 2010 by chris

WINTER B.S. 1960 — TUCSON AZ Jim not that way Jim. That’s no way to treat a garage door, bending stiffly down at the waist and yanking at the handle so the door jerks up and out jerky and hard … Continue reading →

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