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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)

Travel in Two Stories

Among the recent set of sto­ries I sent out to mag­a­zines was one called “Sin­gu­lar­ity,” a reac­tion to my time liv­ing abroad in India. It’s about one Colin Rezo, a pow­er­ful oil exec who is taken hostage by his foul imag­i­na­tion on his trip back from Chen­nai, Tamil Nadu, and launched into a spec­tral tail …

08.28.2010 – 8:31:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Art: Amber Albrecht

This is the work of Amber Albrecht, a Cana­dian artist and illus­tra­tor whose work I first saw on the cover of a lit­er­ary mag­a­zine,  Sycamore Review. I cul­ti­vate a dis­tinct love-loathe rela­tion­ship with visual art; I love to look at it, but loathe talk­ing about it. It always leads to just another absinthe-fueled argu­ment about …

08.20.2010 – 9:54:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments (0)