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Wilderness Year
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Sean Dungan
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05.05.08
Psychic messages from a military base bagboy. Sean Dungan just published his first collection of stories, Unwelcomeness, a book designed with class by Caryn Aono and beautifully illustrated by Gail Swanlund. Dungan, a west coast author, whose range and strangeness of vision harkens (to this blurber anyway, if I may take liberties) the work of George Saunders, Ben Weissman or Ben Marcus. Here's a taste, the story "Wilderness Year" - featured in Unwelcomeness that is very welcome here on Fanzine. Art by Danny Jock. |
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Recent News
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05.10.08Crude oil is now trading at over $120 a barrel. We could see $5 or $6 for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. sooner than you'd think. Ain't that just what we need, some analysts argue, the shot in the arm to seek alternative energies. 05.06.08A woman is accused of pulling a Lizzie Grubman—injuring one woman and
killing one man—after an argument in a New Hampshire bar about whether
it is the Yankees or the Red Sox who suck. 05.05.08The news is generally awful as usual and it's pretty nice here outside in New York. So that's all we can muster today in this space usually set aside for pithy linkage to other site articles and covers the last few laggered, unaddressed days of news items too...go fly a kite. 04.30.08 Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD—by tripping on it, accidentally—dies at 102. 04.28.08The Supreme Court upholds Indiana's voter-ID law, 6-3. Will the Roberts Court bring the poll tax back too?
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happenings / culture
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05.11.2008 NY
FILM: Sympathy for the Devil
Film Forum | 05.11.2008 NY
FILM: Masculin Feminine
Film Forum | 05.11.2008 NY
FILM: Weekend
Film Forum | 05.11.2008 Berlin
FILM: Babylon Mitte presents a Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30 • 10178 | 05.11.2008 NY
FILM: Iron Man
In release | 05.11.2008 Berlin
ART: Sex Brennt – Sex Burns
Berlin Medical Museum, Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité. Campus Charité Mitte. Charitéplatz 1 (former Schumannstr. 20/21), 10117 Berlin | 05.11.2008 LA
ART: Printed Ephemera and New Works by Kevin Lyons
HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, 661 N. Spaulding Ave, LA 90036 | 05.11.2008 LA
ART: The LAB 101 SPACE presents POP POLLUTION: Artworks by Isaac Bushkin, Matt Stallings, and Jacob Arden McClure
THE LAB 101 SPACE, 8539 Washington Blvd, Culver City, 90232 | 05.11.2008 San francisco
ART: KICK OUT THE JAMS
Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market St. | 05.11.2008 San francisco
ART: Group Sects
GRSF, 618 Shrader St. | 05.11.2008 San francisco
ART: One Foot in The Other World The Other Foot in The Other World—Scott Barry
Receiver Gallery, 1415 Valencia St. | 05.11.2008 Berlin
THEATER: Fuck off America
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin | 05.11.2008 San francisco
ART: Oceans of Potions
Needles and Pens, 3253 16th St btw Guerrero and Dolores | 05.11.2008 NY
ART: © MURAKAMI—Takashi Murakami
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, 4th and 5th Floors | 05.11.2008 NY
ART: Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Robert E. Blum Floor | 05.11.2008 Berlin
ART: Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art
Various locations, including: KW Institure for Contemporary Art, Neue Nationalgaleri, Skulpturen Park Berlin Centrum | 05.11.2008 LA
ART: California Video
The Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, L.A., CA, 90049 | 05.11.2008 LA
ART: Takashi Murakami—"Davy Jones' Tear"
Blum & Poe, 2754 S La Cienega, LA 90034 | 05.11.2008 LA
ART: Dave McKenzie: Screen Doors on Submarines
REDCAT Gallery, 631 West 2nd Street, L.A., CA, 90012 | |
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Still Fresh
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The National Hockey League playoffs continue and whaddayaknow... Mike is leading the pool with his virtual video game money. He keeps us updated here in this second segment of Hockey Night, Louie's new (occasional) column. Update: The Stanley Cup semifinals began last night in Detroit. Red Wings beat the Stars in the first game 4-1. Philadelphia plays Pittsburgh tonight.
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05.08.08
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Benjamin Strong talks with director John Gianvito, whose recent documentary Profit motive and the whispering wind, takes us to the places of memory for some of this country's defining heroes on the flip side of history. The movie recently screened at New York's Tribeca Film Festical.
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05.04.08
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It's Derby Day, been Derby Week. Have you picked out your best hat yet? Or for that matter the horses you're betting on? Could study the hell out of the program, uhh...racing forms that is, try to get the scientific scoop on trainers, jockeys or the health status of the horses and whatnot, or try what Pete does, and what a lot of gamblers often do - use your best illusion. Art by Danny Jock.
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05.03.08
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Andy Warhol has boxes and boxes of stuff in a museum in Pittsburgh, the detria of his daily doings, almost everything he touched that wasn't otherwise sold as "art." Somewhere in space Voyager carries with it a gold record containing the tunes of Chuck Berry and Beethoven. It's rumored that Walt Disney (or at least his brain) is cryogenically stored somewhere, and here, in Talk Show 12, host Jaime Clarke asks writers Quinn Dalton, Owen King, Adam Langer and Nelly Reifler what they would leave behind in a time capsule given a limited choice. Art by Danny Jock.
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04.28.08
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It's not unusual for a rock musician—like Robert Johnson playing the blues—to have sympathy for the Devil. Mark Asch takes us to the crossroads, where Black Sabbath, The Mountain Goats's John Darnielle, and the Man of Wealth and Taste himself commune.
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04.25.08
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Like the teacher who thought you'd amount to nothing, or the boy in the third grade with the runny nose you couldn't help having a secret crush on, it isn't easy to forget your babysitters. Bet none of them were like this one. Fanzine first encountered Rachel Sherman, author of The First Hurt (a finalist for the 2006 Frank O'Connor prize), on Jaime Clarke's Talk Show column. Here she brings to the table a flash work of fiction. Art by Danny Jock.
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04.22.08
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Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente had a laser arm, a champion's career, a humanitarian's way, and a tragic end to his life in heroic fashion. Dallas Hudgens, author of the recent novel Season of Gene, explores the man's life through the lens on the new special on PBS' American Experience that premieres this Monday the 21st of April. Drawing by Danny Jock.
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04.20.08
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Procrastination be damned! Mike Louie is an unabashed Philadelphia Flyers fan and this column is one in an occasional series he will write on sports, particularly the NHL Playoffs, which have been underway for about a week now. This time he responds to the Washington Post’s Mike Wise, who, in a bad attempt to imitate one of Louie’s favorite writers, ended up looking foolish across the Internet by scribbling not the best informed column about the Flyers-Capitals game Tuesday night.
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04.17.08
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