Category: Books
Literaturfest VI: met oa Katja Schuurman
May 6, 2012 | posted in Books, Poetry, Writing, magazines | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Aanstaande dinsdag is alweer de 6e editie van Literaturfest live in de Rode Hoed, met dit keer naast Hugo Borst, Joost de Vries en Bas Heijne, op zichzelf al een te gekke line-up, niemand minder dan Katja Schuurman als onverwachte gast. De sympathieke gastheren Tim de Gier (Vrij Nederland), Toine Donk (Das Magazin) en Ernst-Jan[...]
Marc Johns ‘Objects Reading Books’
March 29, 2012 | posted in Art, Books, Drawing | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Next step in Marc Johns‘ brilliance: a series of drawings featuring objects reading books… A salt shaker reading J.D. Salinger’s ‘The catcher in the Rye’, a ruler reading Oscar Wilde, a chair reading Jane Austen, bananas reading Shakespeare and many more ordinary objects reading famous books. Nice… All available as prints in Marcs’ online shop. _ _[...]
Sex Machines and their owners
January 10, 2012 | posted in Books, Graphics, Nudity, Objects | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Sex Machines : Photographs and Interviews is a book by Timothy Archibald featuring a collection of photos starring a range of all sorts of odd ‘sex machines’ and their owners and inventors, or the ‘new American sex machine underground’ as he calls it himself. The machines, like their owners are sort of portrayed like a[...]
Curated by: Maurice Seleky
October 20, 2011 | posted in Art, Books, Contributors, Curated by:, Design, Graphics | by Maurice Seleky | 1 Comment
Maurice Seleky (Utrecht, 1982) is a PR & communications consultant, lawyer and writer. In 2010 his debut novel Ego Faber came out in The Netherlands and Belgium at Ambo-Anthos Publishers, for which he received the BoArte Cultuurprijs in 2011. As an author Seleky performed at Lowlands, Crossing Border and Manuscripta. He’s also the organiser of the Jonge[...]
Souvenir ‘Memories of a Journey never made’
October 19, 2011 | posted in Art, Books, Events, Photography | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Souvenir is a photo-series and also a great book with ingenious design by Dutch talented photographer Lonneke van der Palen. The pictures in the book, that Lonneke made as her graduation project, tell the stories, show the ‘memories of a journey never made’, and is completely made of found, typical cliche imagery that she has[...]
Paul Jasmin’s ‘California Dreaming’
October 6, 2011 | posted in Books, Nudity, Photography | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Great book by American LA based photographer Paul Jasmin, who made a series about the beautiful young kids of California. Kids with dreams, kids longing for their future, kids that also keep himself dreaming. Most of the photos are shot in and around his apartment on Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, in a building that William[...]
Literaturfest: Live en Intiem
September 28, 2011 | posted in Books, Events, Poetry, Text, Writing | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Er komt weer een mooie avond, een avond vol met discussie over boeken aan. De meneren Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Tim de Gier & Toine Donk van Literaturfest organiseren namelijk op 4 oktober weer een ‘Literaturfest Live‘ in den Amsterdamsche Rode Hoed. Behalve de heren en het publiek zijn er gelukkig ook hele interessante gasten, dat zijn[...]
Jonge Schrijversavond 2011
September 16, 2011 | posted in Books, Events, Poetry | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Beleef de literatuur van de toekomst! Op vrijdag 7 oktober vindt de derde editie plaats van de Jonge Schrijversavond in de Grote Zaal van de Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. Tijdens deze literaire talkshow lezen jonge Nederlandse schrijvers voor uit eigen werk. Daarna worden ze geïnterviewd. Optredende auteurs zijn Hanna Bervoets, Anna Drijver, Renske de Greef, Daan Heerma[...]