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The History of Sound Poetry
Poets Without Words is a series of short lectures on sound poetry by Galician poet Xelís de Toro, where he goes through its history and performs a few notable poems. They can be listened to in podcast form but the series benefits from being watched in order: Intro; Zaum – Russian Cubo-Futurism; Hugo Ball – Cabaret Voltaire; Marinetti – Futurism; Kurt Schwitters – Raoul Hausmann; Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven; Lettrism and Poésie Sonore: Isodore Isou and Henri Chopin; British Concrete Poetry and Bob Cobbing; Paula Claire (British Concrete Poet). The extra videos are worth checking out too.
"We had been respectable, ordinary people until the comet"
Carmen Maria Machado (LitHub and also Conjunctions, 12/04/2024), "Endlings": "Lorraine patted my mother's arm and assured her that she believed her. The comet had been rustling up quite a lot of supernatural activity where you least expected it." Related: Kim Masters, Ashley Cullins (THR, 12/13/2017), "War Over 'The Conjuring': The Disturbing Claims Behind a Billion-Dollar Franchise" and movies based on cases of Ed and Lorraine Warren, e.g. on Fanfare: Annabelle; The Conjuring; The Amityville Horror; The Conjuring 2; and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. Also, personal ghost stories by other contributors to Conjunctions. And La Llorona (1960), a classic ghost story relevant to "Endlings" and in this version reviewed on Cinema Cats. CW: children are harmed in La Llorona stories and in the nonfiction article about The Conjuring.
Galaxy Gals
The queen of suspense: how Ann Radcliffe inspired Dickens and Austen – then got written out of the canon - "She was all but forgotten. Now the 18th-century author's republished novels reveal why she made such an extraordinary contribution to literature." [more inside]
A Spooky Season List of Lists, plus a List
At GoodReads, Cybil lists The 78 Most Popular Horror Novels of the Past Five Years. At LitHub, Drew Broussard suggests a spooky season starter kit for the genre-curious. At CrimeReads, Kelley Armstrong describes 7 Great Haunted House Novels Written by Women. On her blog Jump Scares, Emily Hughes tracks 2024's New Horror Books (and several previous years too). Meanwhile on r/horrorlit, recent threads ask "What are we all reading this spooky season?"; "What's a horror book you like that not many know of?"; and what are some "Horror novellas you could knock out in one sitting?" For film suggestions, see also "It is less than 100 days until Halloween ..." and especially DirtyOldTown's "Pre-Halloween Guide to Streaming 2024." Incidentally, Women in Translation Month is long over, but ... [more inside]
“let Medea be fierce and indomitable, Ino tearful”
Euripides Unbound is an account of the recent discovery by archeologist Heba Adly of a papyrus containing 97 lines from Polyidus and Ino, lost plays by Euripides, written by Robert Cioffi who participated in the dig led by Basem Gehad. The fragment was deciphered by classicists Yvona Trnka-Amrhein and John Gibert, who have been interviewed about it by Johanna Hanink on the Lesche Podcast. Bill Allan wrote a short essay about the fragment for the Times Literary Supplement, which led Mary Beard to discuss it on the TLS Podcast.
“clientelism is the main organizing force within Hobbit politics”
The Moral Economy of the Shire is an analysis by Nathan Goldwag of how hobbit society is structured in Middle Earth, explaining what models Tolkien drew on, and how its shown in the books. This is one of a series of posts about Tolkien’s works, which range from an alternate history of a victorious Sauron to a consideration of whether dwarves are analogous to Jews and the metafictional nature of Lord of the Rings.
The survival of this ancient language is as mysterious as its origins
Shakespeare toys with numerous European languages throughout his work, including Italian, French, Spanish, and Dutch. Often, these are spoken in thick accents, with comedic pronunciation. The same holds true for his use of the various British dialects—Scots, Welsh, Cornish, and Irish—heard in scruffy taverns or high courts. In Henry V, soldiers fracture the King’s English while the king himself and a French princess descend into a comical Franglais courtship. Yet, no matter how garbled the speech, playgoers can usually identify distinct languages and dialects—that is, until they bump up against what scholars have called the “invented language,” “unintelligible gabble,” and “‘Boskos thromuldo boskos’ mumbo-jumbo” in his comedy "All’s Well That Ends Well." from I Understand Thee, and Can Speak Thy Tongue: California Unlocks Shakespeare’s Gibberish [LARB]
“Merely a best-selling author in these parts, a rock star in Paris.”
Paul Auster, the prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel and who endured to become one of the signature New York writers of his generation, died of complications from lung cancer at his home in Brooklyn on Tuesday evening. He was 77. [NY Times; ungated] [more inside]
The epic, which has all of life and then some, is strewn with lists
We all make lists, if only to buy bread and milk. But we tend to forget how mythic and subversive, joyful and maddening, enchanting and sobering, and utterly chilling lists can be—and what they can do. To love a list is to partake in letter and word, form and change. To make lists is to join a long line of list makers, to indulge in a timeless art, to break down the artificial wall that separates thinking and doing, thinkers and doers. from One Thing After Another: A Reading List for Lovers & Makers of Lists by Kanya Kanchana [Longreads]
A murky engine of influence
The list is as much a cultural signifier as it is an accurate index of what the public is reading. The tagline makes it easier for readers to find a book within today’s info glut and makes it easier for an author to convince a publisher to let them write another one ... “It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy,” she says. “It has a cumulative, rich-get-richer effect, if you’ve managed it successfully.” Sales come and go, but a NYT bestseller bio line is forever. from The murky math of the New York Times bestsellers list
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