September 2011
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“by now their blankets smell like each other. their clothes - their bodies - feel...”
– haunted by chuck palahniuk
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August 2011
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“a book is as private and consensual as sex.”
– chuck palahniuk
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“it started on the night all the galleries open their new shows, and downtown was...”
– haunted by chuck palahniuk
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“that’s why we love conflict, he says. we love to hate. to stop a war, we...”
– haunted by chuck palahniuk
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in my humble opinion, gabriele basilico’s photographic images are completely terrifying and disturbing, calling on our generation’s newly acquired knowledge and data bank of apocalyptic scenarios, except these photos are a complete actuality, many occurring more than a few decades before the post-apocalyptic obsessive phase we seem to be in.
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roadside (battonya I), 2005, c-print, gerhard stromberg
town (nagykaniza I), c-print, 2005, gerhard stromberg
two roses in a blue vase, c-print, 2004, gerhard stromberg
brachland (kriegsgefangenenlager), c-print, 2001/2002, gerhard stromberg
gamekeeper’s gibbet, c-print, 1992/2000, gerhard stromberg
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“in the history of sound, nobody has ever said a girl’s name that way...”
– swamplandia!, karen russell
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by all meenes
hellen van meene’s beautiful and unapologetically tableau photographs explore the ephemeral and fragility of youth, as well as the awkwardness that accompanies it. through each portrait, the viewer is given an entire history of narrative qualities with which they are allowed to fashion their own meanings and stories. in each photograph, van meene succeeds in condensing an entire character...
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“he had hear of hydrophobes, and he wondered if there was another word like that,...”
– swamplandia! by karen russell
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farewell ride, beck, 2005
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