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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

I am standing in front of a room full of people reading out a story The room is dark I am wearing a head torch so I can read the story My hands are shaking The story is about me getting drunk and having sex with a person A lot of people in the room know about me getting drunk and having sex with a person I did not know the name of the person I had sex with   After I have read the story I wander round the room and don’t know what to say I have already said over a thousand words in a row Sometimes when I approach a group of people one of them will say something positive and either clasp my arm briefly or touch the upper section of my arm I am approaching as many groups of people as possible so I get the highest number of positive things said to me I am feeling happy This is partly because I have been told a lot of positive things but also because I have drunk around five bottles of beer The number of people in the room is decreasing The amount of beer in the room has already decreased to zero This is worrying as the two main things I want are alcohol and people   There is a person I want a lot standing and talking about some objects I arranged on and near a wall I think that I should go and talk to the person If I crashed into the person while we were both in cars I would definitely talk to the person about the arrangement of solid waves in the shell of their vehicle, perhaps implying that they should permit the serendipitous beauty of the incident to assuage their feelings I go to talk to the person The person did not see me say over a thousand words in a row so I feel like they are less likely to object to me talking to them The person does not know that I arranged the objects on the wall but expresses

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August 2014

Rose McLaren

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August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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September 2015

She-dog & Wrong

Natalia Litvinova

TR. Daniela Camozzi

poetry

September 2015

She-dog   He wrote to tell me his dog had died. I wanted to be her, I wanted him...

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Issue No. 2

The Surrealist Section of the Harry Ransom Center

Diego Trelles Paz

TR. Janet Hendrickson

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Issue No. 2

To Enrique Fierro and Ida Vitale—   Just like you, muchachos, I didn’t believe in ghosts, and if I’d...

poetry

September 2011

The Moon over Timna

Rikudah Potash

TR. Michael Casper

poetry

September 2011

In a copper house Lived the new moon, The new moon Of Timna. In a copper coat With a...

 

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