Monthly Archives: September 2010

Advice to me from Isabel Allende

I met Isabel Allende once and had a moment to chat. I asked her, “If you have a project you’re try­ing to move a moun­tain with, and you’re there star­ing up at the peak, how do start?” She smiled and said, “Move it peb­ble by peb­ble, and cross the road with one peb­ble at a time.” I …

09.21.2010 – 1:46:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Thomas Ott — The Number — 73304−23−4153−6−96−8

I recently made my first foray into the visu­ally over­loaded world of the graphic novel with Thomas Ott’s The Num­ber. The Num­ber is a fine (pre­sum­ably) linoleum cut para­ble about the unclos­able door pushed through by a man who finds a num­ber sequence on a slip of paper after a state exe­cu­tion, dropped by the …

09.18.2010 – 7:01:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Emilie Simon

She’s appeared–admittedly pol­y­se­mous and ethereal–in my writ­ing more than once. And I’m cer­tain that in the future, oth­ers will be equally inspired by her work. If not, the future world will be def­i­nitely as deaf to the muses as I just fear they are today. I heard The Big Machine for the first time in the …

09.03.2010 – 9:59:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments (0)