Title: frieze contemporary art & culture No. 156 June, July, August 2013 Theme: The Fiction Issue Featured Names on the Cover: Gregory Sholette & Christopher Darling; Ben Lerner, Katie Kitamura, Omer Fast, Lynne Tillman What: This is an art magazine. This is the first time I’ve ever seen this magazine. I picked up because of the graphic novel cover and the words “The Fiction Issue.”
Indexing: Anticipating the Brooklyn Book Festival, Listening to Gates & Wimps, Reading Proust, Isaiah Berlin, Hipster Christianity, and More
A roundup of things consumed by our contributors.
Afternoon Bites: Ben Lerner, Parts & Labor, Yannick Murphy, and more
At The Faster Times, Joshua Cohen reviews Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station: “If Bolaño was yesterday’s drug of choice—deluding us with youth, intoxicating us with a sense of literature’s wilder, life-altering capacities—Lerner could be, should be, tomorrow’s homegrown equivalent.” In January, Parts & Labor will be playing a series of shows to commemorate their tenth anniversary as a band before joining the “beloved punk bands on indefinite hiatus” club. Their next show? Wednesday, at Union Pool. Yannick Murphy makes […]