Newtown photo by Vanessa Pike-Russell @ flickr
Vanessa Pike-Russell’s pictures of Newtown are pretty interesting, but I also want to draw your attention to a series of street photos by a Flickr user named Mdundas. He’s protective of his work being reproducted without permission, so I’ll simply link to his Newtown set.
I’m a week late posting this: a newly translated short story by the great Latin American writer Roberto Bolaño appeared in the February 8 edition of the New Yorker. The translation is by Chris Andrews. It’s pretty riveting.
“William Burns, from Ventura, California, told this story to my friend Pancho Monge, a policeman in Santa Teresa, Sonora, who passed it on to me. According to Monge, the North American was a laid-back guy who never lost his cool, a description that seems to be at odds with the following account of events…”
Read WILLIAM BURNS
Other Bolaño stories are freely available in the New Yorker archives:
GÓMEZ PALACIO (8 Aug 05)
THE INSUFFERABLE GAUCHO (1 Oct 07)
ÁLVARO ROUSSELOT’S JOURNEY (26 Nov 07)
CLARA (4 Aug 08)
MEETING WITH ENRIQUE LIHN (22 Dec 08)
‘Gómez Palacio’ appeared in Last Evenings on Earth. The others are uncollected, but there’s a new book of stories coming out in a couple of months called The Return from New Directions. I guess these recent stories will be included.
See also a 2002 interview at Bomb magazine
I’ve started a new blog called Tales from the Stolchlickoff Scrapbooks. The scrapbooks contain stories, photos, and notes on Sydney and abroad. Extracts from the scrapbooks will be posted weekly. The first is The King of King Street.
[Above photo by baddogwhiskas @ Flickr]
“Anthropology” (Charlie Parker)
Bud Powell (p), Jorn Elniff (d), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (b)
Copenhagen, 1962
Big Sur 1969 photographed by Ed Yourdon
More Californian Pastoral
Composed by Mike Love – ! – recorded circa 1969,
and re-recorded as a waltz for the Holland album (1973).
Check out Ed Yourdon’s photo-stream @ Flickr,
in particular his great photo set of Big Sur, 1969
Darts
Leyland 1
Parramatta Road 3
The urban decay! The heat! Sydney’s heritage!
The Dale Barlow Band
‘Oleo’ (Sonny Rollins)
Live at the Bellingen Jazz Festival 2008
Dale Barlow – Saxophone, Warwick Alder – Trumpet, Steve Brien – Guitar,
Darren Heinrich – Organ, James Waples – Drums
Photos by Bellogallery @ Flickr
Grove Press, 1960
1959 reading by Kerouac with piano by Steve Allen,
from the documentary What Happened To Kerouac?
…and here’s an embarrassing dispatch from Squaresville, USA
Life magazine’s The Only Rebellion Around
(30 November 1959)
