Rob Ford, Mayor of Toronto
Face it, he’s more interesting than most fictional characters.
Little Brother Magazine in Toronto is a good friend of The Composites. This week they’re launching an anthology of Rob Ford themed fiction, and you can find more about it on their site.
Rob looks a little more Dougly as a composite, don’t you think?
http://littlebrothermagazine.com/everythingisfine
LB is publishing a flash zine of Rob Ford fanfic. Because obviously.
What we’d all missed in hindsight was the subtle but total pasteurizing effect of the presence of a New Yorker narrator in a room, the “coördinated” attack on the senses that transpires when the death of the empire is reduced to the Talk of the Town…No, what I’d really forgotten was all the magazine hacks I was a research assistant for in college before I landed a newspaper gig: the legion of writers so fundamentally incurious they literally outsource their Googling to the interns.
Those are the people who still make a decent living in this business.
"— Daniel X. O’Neil, “Calorie Count”, in Emigre’s 46th issue (Spring 1998).
Joyland News Roundup
Joyland alum Tamar Halpern’s amazing documentary, Llyn Foulkes: One Man Band (with co-director Christopher Quilty), will premiere this June 20 at the LA Film Festival.
We released a new volume of Joyland Retro with work from Amelia Gray, Roxane Gay, Jenny Halper, Jon Paul Fiorentino and more.
Joyland contributor Tamara Faith Berger won this year’s Believer Book Award.
On the Truth & Fiction podcast we spoke with James Greer about how much money he made playing in Guided by Voices, going to Broadway with Steven Soderbergh and watching Tommy with your parents.
Also: Co-publisher and rad human Emily Schultz’s newsest short story, “The Side Sleeper,” makes an appearance online in Toronto’s quirkily pedantic but totally cool mag, Taddle Creek.
Today’s guest pick comes from Emily M. Keeler, a writer, critic, and the editor of Little Brother Magazine. She recommends two stories, “To Err, Divine, so Improvise” by Kaitlin Fontana in Hazlitt and “Afterlife” by Chris Wallace in The Paris Review:
“This past week was one of…
I love Longreads, and they were nice enough to ask me to recommend some good things from last week—which was a week of hard, inaccurate (and mostly short) reading on the internet. I suggested two good things amid all that.
Confession: I do not love Margaret Atwood’s novels. (Though some are on the good side of the okay mark on the continuum of my taste.)
“Whatever. Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.”
—Renata Adler, Speedboat
“The second time someone told me I was dying I was 30 years old. The first time I was 23, but I was living in Montréal then and chalked up the nurse’s proclamation of my impending demise to a breakdown in language. I didn’t really believe it. The second time, I believed it, even though the surgeon hardly seemed credible in his sandals and cargo shorts and a voice most people reserve for children and dogs. I cried, but mostly I thought about getting outside so I could crack jokes with my friend about the indignity of being told I was dying by a man with Birkenstocks and bad breath.”
From Alicia Louise Merchant’s must read essay on how humor evolves in the face of cancer and mortality.
This is an excerpt from Alicia’s longer piece on cancer and comedy (including reflections on Tig Notaro, illness as a narrative device, and the hilarious but painful indignities of the human body) in Little Brother Magazine. It is one of the finest works I’ve ever had the honour of editing.
IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN OH MY GOD OH MY GODDDD LOOK AT IT LOOOOOK AT IT!
We’re doing it again, and this time we’re laughing all the way to your doorstep. Little Brother No. 2, the JOKES issue, drops on May 1st, but you can be sure to get your issue before it hits very select news stands by subscribing. Just $50 for four issues over two glorious years in…
Cover for James Joyce’s Ulysses by Peter Mendelsund
he was covered in the detritus of his work
Love this.
Mendelsund, yes yes yes.
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