Uncovered Bookmarks #17: Disconnecting
A week of prose, print, art, and music
Six years ago this week I started writing on Substack. It felt fitting to write a little love letter to the company here:
Over the break, I disconnected from tech completely, and it was glorious. So this week will be more eclectic than usual.
I discovered some gorgeous prose in “Joyas Voladoras” by Brian Doyle
“You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman’s second glance, a child’s apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the words I have something to tell you, a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die, the brush of your mother’s papery ancient hand in the thicket of your hair, the memory of your father’s voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children.”
I was delighted to see the launch of new print publications. From mountain athletes:
To a renaissance of the early Paris Review called Souvenir:
We also believe that little journals start big movements. In the 1920s, a small but influential group of Anglophone publications first published what became known as the Lost Generation. In the 50s, a group of young editors on the Left Bank launched The Paris Review, which published early works by writers like Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul, Adrienne Rich, and Jack Kerouac.
Our mission is to carry that spirit forward into our tumultuous and fascinating present, serving as an incubator for new talent and a home for the best in new criticism, essays, fiction, art, and reportage. Three times a year, we will produce a beautiful, highly collectible print magazine, which we believe will not only make for a better reading experience, but also a more sustainable institution. Simply put, we want to last, creating a souvenir to serve as inspiration for future generations of great artists, photographers, illustrators, and writers.
And explored some beautiful art:
I bought this book about the collaboration between contemporary and music artists on album art in the last six decades, featuring many of the artists I read about in Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art, which I mentioned in the last newsletter:
Tracks
I discovered S!RENE over the break. Definitely underrated if you like the intersection of jazz and electronic:
And the Sounds page on the Aime Leon Dore website. Little known DJs spinning their favourite tracks:
