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Books
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria
Now that Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film Memoria has been announced in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Fireflies Press reveals a gorgeous art book that chronicles the film’s genesis and creation.
Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
Gina Frangello spent her early adulthood trying to outrun a youth marked by poverty and violence. Now a long-married wife and devoted mother, the better life she carefully built is emotionally upended by the death of her closest friend. Soon, awakened to fault lines in her troubled marriage, Frangello is caught up in a recklessly…
Godshot: A Novel by Chelsea Bieker
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise.
A new publishing house: Fireflies Press
Some good news from beloved Fireflies magazine, after six years of making it, they’ve founded the independent publishing house Fireflies Press.
Let each man remain his own master
the original preface by Elisée Reclus to the 1885 edition of Kropotkin’s “Words of a Rebel,” re-print out this May from PM Press.
The Humorless Ladies of Border Control
A one-of-a-kind travelogue exploring the intersection of literature, politics, and punk rock idealism in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, Ukraine, and Mongolia “Changing the Country, We Apologize for the Inconvenience” —street sign in Kyiv In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, aka “the world’s greatest bar band.” Over the next…
A Little Fable [Franz Kafka] by Vincent Stall
“A Little Fable” (“Kleine Fabel,” in the original German) is a paragraph-long short story masterpiece by Kafka. I ran across a wonderful mini-comic adaptation of it by the American comic book artist Vincent Stall around 2004. A little fable – Franz Kafka “Alas,” said the mouse, “the whole world is growing smaller every day. At…
Drifting “In almost every picture”
This is a short history of #photography’s most common mistake: part of the photographer’s hand appearing in frame. These pages trace an error that hasn’t dimmed with the digital era, but appears as widespread now as it was back in the form’s black-and-white prehistory. Tour covers family snaps from the standard “say cheese” portrait to…