Projections

The Believer Film Issue is out!

Pick it up now! Leyla Ertegun's "Projections" is like nothing you've ever read! Sheila Heti talks to Charlyne Yi...Graham T. Beck tracks down the master of the "Death Touch"...Mark Holcomb on audacious British TV writer Nigel Kneale (Quatermass and the Pit)...Gary Hustwit...Harmony Korine...We've thrown in a DVD of Karpo Godina (who???) shorts!...Also: Hilton Als, Elif "The Possessed" Batuman, Greil Marcus, Jack Pendarvis, comics, Believer Book Prize finalists, and much more!

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I like how whenever a new Believer comes out, it counts as a book "by" me (on Goodreads and so forth). I am now the author of over seventy books! Eat your heart out, Harry Stephen Keeler!

WHERE DOES THAT EXPRESSION 'EAT YOUR HEART OUT' COME FROM?

The Cinema-Talk of Parkus Grammaticus

I. Inland Empire by way of Oulipo (composed entirely of photos found on eBay):



(Via Exoskeleton.)

II. Dzyd Dennis talks to Harmony Korine in the NYT:

In Panama, he befriended a cult of fishermen called the Malingerers, who were trying to find a fish with gold scales. After a few months he got into an argument with the cult leader — he thought they were living a lie — and as he was leaving, a fisherman’s wife handed him a dog leash. “She said she was walking the dog. It was an invisible dog.”

III. Does "thumbs up, thumbs down" work in space? Erasing studies the logs of the International Space Station, ca. 2000–2001:

Watched disk 1 of "Apocalypse Now". Shep tried to explain why Robert Duvall is always wearing the black cavalry hat, but being a Navy guy, he's not sure he understands it either.