"Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors" by Ian Penman (Semiotext<e>)
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I can’t think of anything more pleasurable than being in an outside coffee shop, with a threat of rain, and reading Ian Penman. There is something beautiful about Penman’s essays on whatever subject matter he’s writing about, although mostly music, that he absorbs the essence and peels it slowly for the reader. The fact his new book is on the great German Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder seems to be something I would have imagined in a dream but be impossible in life. Alias, it has happened, and the book is as magnificent as one’s passionate dreams.
"Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors" by Ian Penman (Semiotext<e>)
"Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors" by Ian…
"Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors" by Ian Penman (Semiotext<e>)
I can’t think of anything more pleasurable than being in an outside coffee shop, with a threat of rain, and reading Ian Penman. There is something beautiful about Penman’s essays on whatever subject matter he’s writing about, although mostly music, that he absorbs the essence and peels it slowly for the reader. The fact his new book is on the great German Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder seems to be something I would have imagined in a dream but be impossible in life. Alias, it has happened, and the book is as magnificent as one’s passionate dreams.