this Sunday Aug 24, find us playing an *8pm early show* in Brooklyn:
performances by
– DJ Rupture
– No Lands (album release!)
– Lorna Dune
@ Baby’s All Right
tix | FB
///// and here’s a new mix
Month: August 2014
MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
On Sunday August 24, we’ll be meeting to discuss Senselessness (2004, 2008 English trans.), a dynamite novella from Central American author Horacio Castellanos Moya.
It takes the form of a monologue, so everything we get comes from the mouth of, as the book jacket text describes, “an alcoholic, atheist, sex-obsessed writer [who] finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to edit the testimonies of the survivors of slaughtered Indian villages.”
Senselessness is agonizing/ly funny, profane & political, entertainingly written yet dealing with huge issues surrounding language and authority, grieving and historical memory — it’s no surprise that Castellanos Moya’s early novels earned him death threats, leading him to take up residence in exile…in Pittsburgh.
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