events
“Over the Moon” HOLIDAY SALE —
use code “cheers” for 20% off orders of $75+, “chuffed” for 25% off orders of $105+, or “overthemoon” for 30% off orders of $135+. pssst: for arrival by Christmas, choose usps priority & order soon!
✼ plaudit:
“How does a book’s static format capture the temporal, ever-changing nature of gesture, thought, music, all the motion that defines social history? By doing something very close to what I Will Keep My Soul accomplishes: breaking through the fourth wall of the page.”
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Diagram | I Will Keep My Soul by Helen Cammock: “She’s talking about skin and breath and ambient history, specifically Black American history and the legacy of racism and violent oppression, but also joy and art and genius.” —Elizabeth Zuba
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books
I WILL KEEP MY SOUL by Helen Cammock | A rhizomatic and particularly American story of art and activism, of culture and capital, of being and belonging, this prismatic artist’s book layers photography, historical documents, poetry and other texts, all rooted in the city of New Orleans.
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✼ news:
Coming very soon! The printer is almost finished binding the second printing of Memory by Bernadette Mayer and the fourth printing of The Address Book by Sophie Calle. You can preorder your copy of one or both now—books will ship by the first week of December!
[...]the improbable
No. 3 Lingual Music — IN THIS ISSUE & INTRO: Guest edited by Alex Balgiu and Chloé Gourvennec, this issue is a catalyst, a manifesto, a conversation across time, language and musical propositions.
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the improbable
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE IMPROBABLE: “The Improbable takes its inspiration from Dick Higgins’ Something Else Newsletter just as his Something Else Press (1963–1974) is a totemic spirit for Siglio.”
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✼ not stones, not stale bread:
The book object. Object as aim. Object as thing. “In committing himself to book-objects, Dick Higgins confronted object status . . . the objectification of the creative act and the rise of art as a commodity object.” Call It Something Else at the Reina Sofia through January 22, 2024, curated by Alice Centamore and Christian Xatrec.
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No. 1 Time Indefinite — MATVEI YANKELEVICH: In his reassement of the Something Else Press, he writes, “The value of the small press has long been centered in its marginality in relation to commercial culture.”
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books
Intermedia, Fluxus and The Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins, edited by Steve Clay and Ken Friedman
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affinities
Appreciation | JOSHUA BECKMAN AT POETs HOUSE: “My hope is to share some of the exuberance I have found … in the things Dick Higgins put in the world.”
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affinities
List | Dick Higgins’s Something Else Press Lives On: A bibliography of Something Else Press reprints, facsimiles, etc. that evinces the enduring love for SEP
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✼ natalie’s upstate weather report:
september 22, 2023 — Every day blue skies, 71 degrees, and a slight, saltine breeze. Away from the ocean, into the city: heat that melts tar and soaks the concrete while waiting for a bus that seems to have evaporated. And then the ascension up the hill above the slow ooze of traffic on I-405 to the Getty Research Center where—shoed, socked and sweatered—our publisher delves into the Jean Brown Archive, a wholly other climate.
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