Andrew Durbin - Peter Hujar's December 18th - allenginsberg.org/2023/12/m-d-18…

Back in 2020, Andrew Durbin wrote a tale about one of these guys. In “True Story,” a vintage Garfield phone recovered from the coast of France is a landline to the past. thebaffler.com/latest/true-st…

The Undertones - Teenage Kicks Derry’s finest crunching through their glorious ode to young lust in Belgium, 1980; as Feargal shows Jean-Claude Van Damme just who the Muscles from Brussels actually bloody is. What a song; and doing the job in under 3 minutes

Tragic that a music criticism magazine will now be under the control of an editor like Will Welch. The war on criticism as a form of journalism continues. (Also, what’s the point of Condé Nast?)

I first met Carolyn when we were undergrads at Bard. (We were the same year.) She was murdered by her roommate/our former classmate in 2016 - something that continues to haunt me. So glad that the memory of this friend and writer is being kept alive by @SarahNumber4

"...to reach behind that, and again behind that, into the unclear brine of the mind itself." RIP, Lyn Hejinian. Her poetry always gave me the feeling that I was floating.

newly posted at periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics : Andrew Durbin : In memory of Lyn Hejinian / Poetry Foundation ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/02/andrew…

Wrote about Lyn Hejinian, letting go of her books, and how she addressed death for periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics : periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/02/andrew…

David may have slowed down physically, but his vitality otherwise and creativity have slowed down exactly zero percent in the 25 years I’ve known him. FWIW

🚨NEW BOOK ALERT 🚨 Coming in April 2025, THE MYSTERY OF PERCEPTION, a wonderful and necessary conversation between Taylor Lewandowski and Lynne Tillman featuring essays by Andrew Durbin, Emily LaBarge, and Claire Donato!

In deepest honor and grateful memory of Gena Rowlands; may she be at peace. With no disrespect to any other actress, she was the most inventive and vital I've ever seen. The last closeup I'll see in my mind, the one that can stand for all others, is this one, from Faces:

The New York Times today. Don’t say you didn’t know.

This is very likely why BBC Hard talk cancelled after 3 decades

At the hotel in Frankfurt there was a publishing convention and every room was taken, parties all night. I didn’t know there were so many book publishers in the world. I was trying to find Crystal Lake Publishing so I could congratulate them on publishing The Great God Pan, one

Gary Indiana, novelist, playwright and critic, has died aged 74 After a celebrated turn at the Village Voice, Indiana wrote a slew of uncompromising novels that gained a substantial cult following. Read more: frieze.com/article/gary-i…

We at the Review mourn the loss of Gary Indiana (1950–2024). In celebration of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from our archive. theparisreview.org/interviews/785…

The poor beleaguered farmers of England. please say a prayer.

barbarahammer's 'The Female Closet' combines rare footage, interviews, and rich visual documentation to survey the lives of three variously closeted and not-so-closeted artists from different segments of the 20th century. Tomorrow 6:15pm with not.here and Andrew Durbin

It’s been 72 hours since federal agents abducted a legal permanent resident from our city and Andrew Cuomo still hasn’t said a word.

A billionaire who accuses his adversaries of being paid shills, while simultaneously offering people $1,000 to cast ballots for his preferred candidate, is telling you everything you need to know about how popular he thinks his own views are, and how many people would support