1.
La entrevista de Laura Fernández a Chris Kraus, la autora de Amo a Dick (Alpha Decay) y de Video Green (Consonni) en El País, aquí.
Un extracto:
«La idea del fracaso permea toda su obra. Y es un fracaso que ha aprendido a reírse de sí mismo. En casi todo lo que ha escrito, sigue siendo una directora de cine experimental que hace cosas que nadie entiende y que fracasa una y otra vez, y de las formas más ridículas que podamos imaginarnos. “Todo éxito llega después de un centenar de pequeños fracasos, pero no hablamos de ello. Estoy en contra de la idea del genio que ha impuesto el mundo del arte, yo creo en el trabajo duro, en resistir. Si dejé el cine fue porque me di cuenta de que todo lo que iba a hacer el resto de mi vida era golpearme la cabeza contra la misma pared, una y otra vez”, confiesa.»
2.
El poema «Blue Poles», de Inger Christensen:
Tonight, away begins to go
farther away, and the dream
what do we know of the dream
metallic leaps Jackson Pollock
silvery streams Jackson Pollock
I gaze across the sea
see in the distance your walk and you
pass the Pacific, distant and blue
phallus and Moloch pace my view
on into otherness
on into otherness?
are we in the world after or before
are we or are we not magnetic force
it is apparently me you inform:
genesis woman dream that begins
tonight to go farther away
tonight to reach farther away
metallic leaps Jackson Pollock
silvery streams Jackson Pollock
on across the blue sea
3.
El artículo de Rachel Kramer en Forbes «How to open an independente bookstore».
Un extracto (sobre la localización óptima):
“It was most important to be in the right spot. That was basically the only thing I couldn’t adjust later if needed,” he noted. “Probably half of the year-long preparation process was spent on scouting locations, talking to landlords and real estate agents, and eventually negotiating and signing a lease.”
Brewster believed that because cities like San Francisco supported numerous bookstores, while in Columbus he could count their numbers “on one hand,” the location was ripe for opening Prologue. “The Short North Arts District specifically is one of the premier shopping destinations in central Ohio, and the business owners and consumers there have been hoping a bookstore would move in for years.”
4.
El ensayo de Sloane Crosley en The New York Times «How Hollywood Gets the Publishing Industry Wrong», aquí.
Un extracto:
«Hollywood’s love affair with book publishing has been long and varied, touching every cinematic genre. And yet it is a love that dare not spell its name correctly. Despite decades of sending emissaries back and forth from coast to coast, swapping mediums, one side looking for money, the other for legitimacy, we remain strangers to our cousins in storytelling.»
5.
Y un viejo poema de Frank Baez, de 2011, «Anoche soñé que era un dj».
