Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio's Nobel Lecture entitled "In the forest of paradoxes":

"Why do we write? I imagine that each of us has his or her own response to this simple question. One has predispositions, a milieu, circumstances. Shortcomings, too. If we are writing, it means that we are not acting. That we find ourselves in difficulty when we are faced with reality, and so we have chosen another way to react, another way to communicate, a certain distance, a time for reflection...."

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Gil Mantera's Party Dream - "Elmo's Wish"

Directed by Seth Kirby and David Monaghan

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No Age - "Eraser"

Directed by Andy Bruntel

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Marnie Stern - "Transformer"

Directed by Dylan Mulick

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At long last...

New Issue of World Picture

Theme: Obvious

(featuring new fiction by Sam Lipsyte, new philosophical theory by other folks, and a conversation with Ernesto Laclau)