Correction
October 4, 2011 § 9 Comments
This is kinda embarrassing, but I think maybe it’s more embarrassing to let it dangle unacknowledged.
I have a reading list printed in a corner of the newest issue of Nylon Magazine. I was asked to submit a list of my 5 favorite books unified by a particular theme. I chose to make a list of books in which form and function are unified in perfect synthesis – Ie; the narrative voice is the story.
And sure, maybe as a theme it’s a little clunky or abstract. I prefer to think of it as SUBTLE, but maybe I’m being dumb. Point is, the title of the list was changed to “Experimental Language.”
This is embarrassing because if I was asked to make a list of books of Experimental Language that I like, I certainly never would’ve included Shirley Jackson or Borges.
(CUTIES!)
So, for the record: I just wanna make clear, because it makes me look like a dumb-ass, that contrary to what I may be represented as saying, by no means am I under any delusion that either Shirley Jackson or Borges is a user of “Experimental Language.”
And the people I dealt with at Nylon were real nice, so I know this was not a malicious plot to make me appear ignorant. And Yeah, I’m sure their mailroom is just up to their necks with outraged letters re: these Preposterous Implications! But you know, it’s embarrassing. Just like it’s embarrassing to be so self-aware and petty to bother correcting it, but you know, I don’t know. It’s embarrassing.
In other news: September News Re-cap (So we can all one day look back on the innocence of our simple lives in these last days before Occupy-Here-and-There – - C’mon Tipping Point!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15032614
http://harpers.org/archive/2011/09/hbc-90008244
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/09/vladimir-putin-action-man/100147/
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.5/noam_chomsky_responsibility_of_intellectuals_redux.php
http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14940885
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2011/08/19/slavoj-zizek/shoplifters-of-the-world-unite
http://badatsports.com/2011/grasping-peace/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
http://kottke.org/11/09/sending-children-through-the-post
http://edge.org/conversation/the-marvels-and-flaws-of-intuitive-thinking
http://www.believermag.com/issues/201109/?read=article_kornbluh
http://hypergeography.tumblr.com/
http://www.woostercollective.com/2011/09/reminiscence_of_9112001_by_zevs.html
