Dennis Cooper is on vacation. But before he left, he – as he is regularily wont to do – poster a myriad of his favorites.
I cherish these lists and the internet stuff is my favourite of his favorites. While there are many repeats from previous listings there is always something fresh to discover.
Tek Tent Radio for example. They have mixes and radio shows – I’m listening to last months’ Blauerosen / Jointweird Playlist as I write – which are very interesting and neither too ambient-y nor too noise-y for my taste. Although they also have that.
Zona Motel looks like an interesting magazine / newsletter / blog / collection of texts like reviews and interviews. I read two articles: A review about a book on folk horror that shits on anything born after 1980 that isn’t the book reviewed, and a report from a book reading where the authoresses can’t seem to believe that the author of the book that is read is a man. The folk horror piece gave me a new wallpaper featuring Britt Eckland, which is nice.
More to follow. Perhaps.
With the Blogroll Review category as dried up as the reservoirs in Chinatown let me offer at least an occasional round-up of new sources that stand under the feuilleton umbrella waiting for the rain to come. This one is of literary magazines.
Orion Magazin – Nature, Culture & Place — There is a print magazine, but shipping would ruin me financially, so I browse the online offerings. Essays, reviews, some poetry and the occasional short story. There are paywalls but you have to click a lot of links to drive into one of those.
Salmagundi Magazine – I don’t know where Skidmore is, but its college has this great quarterly. They know that people have no money (not even quarter-ly) so everything is free. You might want to start with a fabulous piece on Bees by Lauren K. Watel.
Literary Matters – Presented by The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Literary Matters is an online-only collection of poems, reviews, and all matters literature.
Current – They have server-problems at the moment but when they are up and running they have good stuff, like this link-love-list of their favorite essays of 2024 from other small magazines. In case you need even more reading material.
The Literary Saloon – Finally a blog. News and more about the literary world. as if the main project – “complete review” – wasn’t ambitious enough. The Saloon offers daily fragments into the global literary complex.