Monday, May 07, 2007

Cannes and museumfilm

My friends are busy. Director CS Leigh’s museumfilm is up and live. 2004’s PROCESS with Beatrice Dalle is just astonishing and the long-delayed DVD release is now set for June.

I will be in Cannes for the 60th anniversary festival this year from the 16th of May till the 27th, with Anna and Ryan Skelton. This week the superb Michael FitzGerald is reading at KGB and Happy Ending in New York City - RADIANT DAYS was reviewed in the NYTBR.

In the UK Anna and I will be reading with Bill Manhire at the Manchester Literature Festival in October. And genius David Markson’s THE LAST NOVEL is published this month. The world is exciting.

Reading: Anthony Burgess’s gorgeous A DEAD MAN IN DEPTFORD. plus Mike Davis’s CITY OF QUARTZ, the elaborately bound and beautiful A LETTER FROM JAPAN, John Swope’s photographs. Wherein, having bought it for Swope’s photography of post-occupation Japan I found the shot of Brando from Julius Caesar that got me excited way back when I blogged for Powell’s.

As Malvolio puts it,
Why, every thing adheres together, that no dram of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or unsafe circumstance—What can be said? Nothing that can be can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

To the dark house…

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