Of Kids and Parents

by Travis Jeppesen on August 31, 2008

Of Kids and Parents by Emil Hakl, translated from the Czech by Marek Tomin (Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2008) Twisted Spoon’s latest publication, a translation of Emil Hakl’s Of Kids and Parents, is a simple novel, if any novel can (…)

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Vaginal Davis presents….. DEROHAN CHABOT

by Travis Jeppesen on August 27, 2008

reading in Berlin

by Travis Jeppesen on August 26, 2008

I’ll be reading at the next Borderlines event on Saturday, August 30 at 19:30. It will take place at STYX Project Space, on the second floor of the Alte Brauerei Friedrichshohe, Landsberger Allee 54, Berlin. Signed copies of my first (…)

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Schloss Tegal – The Myth of Meat (Tegal Records, 2008)

by Travis Jeppesen on August 25, 2008

Schloss Tegal continues to explore the absolute outer regions of “human” experience, with every recording and live action they issue. I put human in quotation marks because, on The Myth of Meat, their latest release, they manage to forge the (…)

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IN MEMORIAM: Michael Baxandall (1933-2008)

by Travis Jeppesen on August 20, 2008

Michael Baxandall has died. As an art historian, he was responsible for engineering the idea of the “period eye,” in which one must take into consideration the social, cultural, and economic realities surrounding the creation of a work of art (…)

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We’re Back

by Travis Jeppesen on August 19, 2008

Here’s the book cover: and it’s already available for pre-order in the U.K., U.S.A., Germany, France, Canada, etc., etc. The book will officially be released in November of this year; review copies and press materials may be acquired via heidipsjames (…)

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