Hedwige Jacobs lives and works in Houston, TX:
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"David Foster Wallace, who hanged himself in his home last September, wrote about authenticity, self-consciousness and the pursuit of happiness in America. It became a commonplace and then a cliché and then almost a taunt to call him the greatest writer of his generation, yet his project remained only vaguely understood when it was understood at all."
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"I get the impression that the banality of each landscape is suppose to draw some parallel to the murders, but the film reads better when we consider the landscape, as it is shown to us, as tainted by the banality of the murders."
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"When Shane Jones wrote Light Boxes he also made a series of paintings. Reduction of compositional elements led to erasure. Blank space as spectacle. The yawning maw. The void as voice."
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Anders Oinonen lives and works in Toronto:
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"Gert Jonke was a brilliant and slightly berserk Austrian novelist. If you want a less pretentious appraisal, you might also note that he was funny, accessible, and deeply caustic (at least two of his books feature lengthy diatribes about inept city planners). His style totters erratically between the abstraction of a high modernist and the gibberish of someone who retains the curiosity — and incoherency — of a toddler."
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"The rise of literary theory and its colonization of what we used to quaintly call the “primary text” parallels the rise of those technologies which have changed “photography” into “digital capture”."
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Jackie Gendel lives and works in Brooklyn, NY:
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Ken Krug paints his favorite books:
