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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...

On a distinctly drizzly Wednesday evening in February a friend of mine looked at me and said: ‘Only those who risk reaching too far, find out how far they can reach’ My first thought was ‘why is it that my friends speak in epigrams?’ followed by the rather acid judgement that this particular friend had just reached too far, and was about to discover quite how uncomfortable risking too much can be   My friend (whose real name I’ve chosen not to reveal, but let’s pick one at random and refer to him as Bill) was, if not drunk, certainly very, very relaxed, especially considering the situation The previous day had been a gloriously sunny one, London’s cruel annual spring joke – raising hopes before dashing them with a summer of drizzle I had certainly fallen for it, and in a greatly optimistic mood sent Bill a chirpy text message congratulating him on having his work published in the first edition of what was clearly going to become a literary review magazine of international scope and seriousness My message read (and this is important): ‘I’m afraid I’m busy tonight but it looks like I’ll see you tomorrow (I’ve just met the editor [of said magazine] and saw your name on the list of contributors)’   To this fairly innocuous message, I received the response: ‘Oh sweet Jesus’   Blind to the motive behind the panic I questioned his reaction The only response I received was: ‘Good god, the odds!!’   Now, call me naïve, but this did not start alarm bells ringing Nor did the fact that Bill was uncharacteristically quiet throughout the brief time we stayed at the launch Perhaps he was nervous about his piece, I thought, before considering his general confidence in his writing, and deciding that this was unlikely Maybe he was humbled by the hundreds of hipsters who were squeezed into the long, narrow room He had, after all, previously described himself as standing lemon-like amongst hipsters who were ‘all swaying to music only they could hear’

Contributor

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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June 2016

Interview with Cao Fei

Izabella Scott

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June 2016

The Chinese artist Cao Fei documents life in her country’s rapidly changing urban and social landscapes. Her eclectic work...

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March 2017

Interview with Lidija Dimkovska

Sara Nović

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March 2017

I met Lidija Dimkovska at the Twin Cities Book Festival in October, fleetingly, and completely by accident. I had...

Interview

March 2016

Interview with Franco 'Bifo' Berardi

Seth Wheeler

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March 2016

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi is a renowned theorist of contemporary media, culture and society. He has lectured at the Academia...

 

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