Why yes, yes I am still doing yoga.
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This week in gratuitous links:
- Kevin McIlvoy in Pif Magazine
- Stephen Millhauser in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, selected by Aimee Bender. (Is there any part of that which doesn’t sound amazing? Correct answer: no.)
- Clarice Lispector’s investigation of eternity on Bomblog
- Vote for my friend Molly Backes’s book The Princesses of Iowa in NPR’s survey of the best-ever teen novels. (Also, you should probably vote for the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, because, yes. Best.)
- And because I can’t go more than a few posts without mentioning Werner Herzog, do you remember the time he asked an Antarctic biologist whether penguins could be deranged or gay? Yeah. Encounters at the End of the World!
You have been mentioning later Herzog films. Do you know the staggering early ones, which are infinitely weirder and more Herzogian than My Best Fiend, Grizzly Man, or Encounters: Even Dwarfs Started Small, Fata Morgana, Precautions Against Fanatics, Signs of Life, Heart of Glass, Land of Silence and Darkness, Aguirre, How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner, La Soufriere, Stroszek, and the greatest of all, Kaspar Hauser.