Lars Iyer's Blog, page 91

I pick three 'guest books' for The Barnes and Noble Review (halfheartedly, and with flat prose.)

New long interview with me by Melissa Seley for Bomb (my answers: rushed, poorly considered)

Randy Boyagoda reviews Dogma for The Globe and Mail.

Anna Aslanyan reviews Dogma for 3:AM.

Susan Salter Reynolds reviews Dogma for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Sanjay Sipahimalani reviews Dogma for the Indian Express.

Cameron Martin reviews Dogma for the New York Times. It will appear in print on Sunday.

Even death eludes them: not only the "sweetness" of the white-bearded Bhishma's timely death, but also the resounding, heroic/anti-heroic death of an Ian Curtis or even one modelled on the bathos-ridden suicide of Bruno in Stroszek that we might have been expecting from the chicken à la Herzog that was proffered at the beginning of the book ...

Being in Lieu reflects on Dogma.

... the pain is deeper now, the desperation more acute, the catastrophe more imminent.

Paul Bowes reviews Dogma at Amazon.co.uk.

Do not be deceived: this last lamp does not give more light - the dark has only become more absorbed in itself.

Our talk of justice is empty until the largest battleship has foundered on the forehead of a drowned man.

Paul Celan

A festival celebrating Robert Walser in Newcastle. All events free.

I am contributing to the following events:

Tues. 20/03 1– 2.30pm
BIOGRAPHY AND LEGACY on Culture Lab Radio
A radio discussion on the role of madness in art and artistic legacy, with Laura Cull, Tess Denman-Cleaver, Gabriele Heller and Lars Iyer.
Tune in at http://culturelabradio.ncl.ac.uk/
Culture Lab, Newcastle University, Grand Assembly Rooms, Kingʼs Walk, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, Tel: 0191 246 4607

Fri. 23/03 4.30-7pm
FERNE NÄHE / DISTANT CLOSENESS at Cuture Lab
A talk by Reto Sorg about Robert Frankʼs exhibition Ferne Nähe /Distant Closeness at the Robert Walser Zentrum, Bern March 2012.
Followed by a panel discussion with Jo Catling, Lars Iyer, Daniel Medin, Daniele Pantano, Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams about Walserʼs unique
legacy.