Broken Sleep by Bruce Bauman Other Press, 2015 656 pages – Other / Amazon Bruce Bauman’s Broken Sleep is a titanic, post-punk mosaic of history, art, philosophy, myth, family, politics, war, peace, illness, sports and, of course, rock and roll. Oh, and the Nazis. Let’s not forget the Nazis. Aside from that, it’s also the only book in the history of literature to open with an assisted suicide presented as a public art installation…
…t every time that Gotham endeavors to put him down, he sneers and rises. Challenging it once more. Telling it that it all belongs to him. That Gotham is his city, now. ♦♦ ♦♦ Gotham has a hunger about it. And it believes that Bruce Wayne can be broken and eaten up like all the rest. But Bruce Wayne is only a mask, and the one who dons it is hungrier. ♦♦ Isaac Jon Enen is a writer originating from a small town in Illinois. He writes about what he…
…ions pop in rolling boxes A man in one waves at me, angry that I’d stopped A woman in another waves at me, happy that I’d stopped In the next box, I keep my eyes closed and to myself In one panel, it’s the Hulk; in the next, Bruce Banner. Where does the phrase “resting bitch face” come from? In one viral video, strangers kiss each other, & In another, strangers hit each other, Both staged & bad ideas. Take these sonnets, for instance,…
…up. They study a lack of movement / a lack of speech. “I started reading Bruce Boone because some of the mostly leftist poets I am and hang out with were reading his work at the time. My friends were learning something from Bruce Boone’s writing, and I wanted to learn too, which lead to sometimes slipping into similar habits of—voice? The book where Bruce Boone is at a Marxist conference and tracing thoughts presented there by Frederic Jameson….
…adventures and peculiar characters who offer him a surrealistic view of an impoverished, war-ravaged society and shape his perception of his place in the world. –from the Open Letter website Other Press Broken Sleep by Bruce Bauman 656 pages – Other Press/Amazon Tightrope by Simon Mawer 432 pages – Other Press/Amazon The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri, translated by John Cullen 320 pages – Other Press Memory…
…ere written today, it would no doubt be considered cosmic – the slow decline of the universe expanding, growing colder, and dissipating into nothingness. III. A Room With My Soul Left Out, A Room That Doesn’t Care, by Bruce Nauman, is a strange work. You walk down a dark industrial looking corridor, and you find yourself in a chamber with effectively six exits. Every direction you look is the same. It’s like Nauman is trying to evoke the…
…nk more about this. [….] Tim, I do see strong connections between camp and slash—but my sense of camp is pretty broad, I see it everywhere, and I see it all over slash, whether it’s intentional or not. Have you read Bruce La Bruce’s Notes on Camp/Anti-Camp? TIM: I think for me, most slash lacks sufficient glamour and ambition and theater to qualify as camp—but I may be too tied to an outmoded, Sontag-ish notion of camp. I have read La Bruce’s…
…n whenever he played in the tri-state area. There is nothing quite like being surrounded by tens of thousands of people singing along to a song to get a little girl hooked on live music. As a teenager, I waited all night for Bruce tickets, but I also loved hardcore/punk/ska shows at tiny venues all over New York City. I loved lunging myself into the mosh pits, getting kicked in the face, screaming. I loved being so squeezed against everyone else…
…tes were converted to buses. And subway development slowed. Then came World War 2 and highways and suburbs, blockbusting and white flight. In real life, Eddie Valiant and Roger Rabbit were people who drove cars, listening to Bruce Springsteen songs before Bruce Springsteen was born. There were people in Germantown like Samuel West, my great-grandfather who made a living at the BUDD factory, which manufactured train and car bodies. His father,…
…to open it. I’ve peeked in a few times, read some, but haven’t cracked the spine. I also don’t know which end to read first. I keep moving it around like some hand held studio object. Andrea Lambert I have Bruce Bauman’s Broken Sleep on my bookshelf which I was so excited to find at Skylight Books and hear is amazing. I’m expecting to love it just as soon as I can take on 500 pages. He was a great novel prof at…
…s out of a sheet I had hidden in the basement, then passed out. I woke up cross-eyed, unable to tie my shoes. During home room period, I was called down to the guidance counselor’s office. There, my parents were waiting with Bruce, the school drug counselor. “We know you’re smoking pot,” Bruce began our conversation. Laughing wildly, I told them the truth “I hardly ever get high, but I take acid every day.” I was invited to a Fourth of July…
…issue of writer Greg Pak’s The Totally Awesome Hulk ups the ante as Amadeus Cho (aka, the new Hulk) willfully defies the expressed wishes of Carol Danvers (aka, Captain Marvel). Not all that surprising given how close Bruce Banners (aka, the old Hulk) was to Amadeus. Had Carol not acted on Ulysses’ premonitions, Bruce Banners would still be alive. Writer Greg Pak & artist Mike Del Mundo do an unusually brilliant job of…
…oug Moench, Jim Aparo & Bob Wiacek The caped crusader is turning 75 years old this week. DC is celebrating the character’s anniversary with a short by the talented “Batman: The Animated Series” animator Bruce Timm; “Batman Strange Days” is to air this Wednesday at 6:30 PM on the Cartoon Network. All of the fanfare got me thinking about my own adolescent attachment to the Bat mythos. To boil it down: Why am I…
…, Dick Higgins, Nina Simone, Simon Cutts, USPS, Erica Van Horn, study tables, Alan Loney, loving patrons, Robert Creeley, generous donors, Ted Greenwald, Kit Robinson, Lewis Warsh, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Wallace Berman, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Bruce Conner, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Dorn, Holbrook Teter, Michael Myers, Graham Mackintosh, Alex Katz, Joe Brainard, and many more I’m quite sure I’ll think of after I get home. These are mostly…