Dandy Warhols | Autumn Carnival

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Dandy Warhols | Autumn Carnival

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Yu Hong | The Laughing Heart

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Yu Hong | The Laughing Heart

NownessReflecting on the frenetic rush of her country, Yu Hong inhabits a quiet, thoughtful corner of the Chinese art world. …

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China Now

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China Now

Nowness“Everyone is trying to find that new Chinese voice,” Lyndon NeriThomas Rhazi’s documentary spotlights the fertile state of creativity in the world’s most populous country, through interviews with luminaries of Chinese art, publishing and architecture. …

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Runner Runner

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Thomas Pynchon | Bleeding Edge

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/73716114?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=f04e23" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://thepenguinpress.com/book/bleeding-edge/" target="blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Penguin Press</span></b></a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span><b>t is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there’s no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what’s left.</b><br /><br /><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: left; font-family: museo-1,museo-2,helvetica; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: -0.04em; line-height: 1em; margin: 30px 30px 30px -125px ! important; text-align: right; width: 295px;">Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet</span> Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her license got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics—carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack into people’s bank accounts—without having too much guilt about any of it. Otherwise, just your average working mom—two boys in elementary school, an off-and-on situation with her sort of semi-exhusband Horst, life as normal as it ever gets in the neighborhood—till Maxine starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO, whereupon things begin rapidly to jam onto the subway and head downtown. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler’s aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, plus elements of the Russian mob and various bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYC18o9u__6wTHD6XNH43xlp3YJgPqawvmGTbv7BRR04J9q8ikqE-qzaVs7QwpUFXVtt-Y_Ak8ojLDst4P6v6yHjHhP5JxfBSP4dFobD6S0tO615O6faKfcg9urKaTp-TklHQFDe5aqSI/s1600/bleeding_edge_pynchon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYC18o9u__6wTHD6XNH43xlp3YJgPqawvmGTbv7BRR04J9q8ikqE-qzaVs7QwpUFXVtt-Y_Ak8ojLDst4P6v6yHjHhP5JxfBSP4dFobD6S0tO615O6faKfcg9urKaTp-TklHQFDe5aqSI/s1600/bleeding_edge_pynchon.jpg" /></a></div>With occasional excursions into the Deep Web and out to Long Island, Thomas Pynchon, channeling his inner Jewish mother, brings us a historical romance of New York in the early days of the internet, not that distant in calendar time but galactically remote from where we’ve journeyed to since.<br />Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will she and Horst get back together? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance?<br /><br />Hey. Who wants to know?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bleeding-Edge-ebook/dp/B00C5R78JM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=" target="_blank"><i>Bleeding Edge</i> at amazon</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2013/05/prepub/what-else-is-hot/previewing-thomas-pynchons-bleeding-edge/" target="_blank">Barbara Hoffert: <i>Previewing Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge</i></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59420-423-4" target="_blank">David Kipen’s <i>Publishers Weekly</i> review of <i>Bleeding Edge</i></a>. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/thomas-pynchon/bleeding-edge/" target="_blank">Kirkus reviews <i>Bleeding Edge</i></a>.</div>

Thomas Pynchon | Bleeding Edge

The Penguin Press It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as mu…

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Claudio Silvestrin

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Claudio Silvestrin

NownessClaudio Silvestrin’s reductive, contemplative, near-ecclesiastical spaces can be found across the globe. He has designed residences from Moscow to Majorca, and currently on his drawing board is a Miami home for Kanye West. …

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How Do You Know What You’re Seeing Is Real

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