Joshua Malbin

So it’s been more than six months since I posted a new story, I know. I’ve been working on a long revision. But I finally did have time to write a new one, and it’s now posted.

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I’ll be reading for about 10 minutes as part of this multi-writer event in Greenpoint on August 12. It’s at Word Bookstore (7:30 – 8:30) then Shayz Lounge (8:30 – 10:30). 126 Franklin Street (Word) and 130 Franklin Street (Shayz Lounge). Come!

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I suppose there are some readers of this blog who haven’t met one or the other Joshes in person. Here’s a little taste of what we look (and of course, sound) like.

I am everyone in this video. (Another reason to choose Yale.) That is, everyone except for the one who is Josh Malbin. He can be seen wearing the Chinese dragon costume in the “8 Cultural Centers” bit.

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In honor of Guy Fawkes Day, I present my biggest problem with the ill-fated Alan Moore film adaptation V for Vendetta:

For starters, the titular terrorist V wears a Guy Fawkes mask through the whole movie. On the page, the frozen smile of the mask is iconic and haunting, depersonalizing the revolutionary ardor of V into a free-floating cloud of question and dissent that gets inside Evey and fuels her transformation. On the screen, however, it’s as if Natalie Portman has to fight, love, and hide alongside King Friday from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood for two hours. He doesn’t really give a lot back, and he’s a bad kisser.

The rest of the review can be found at the Sky K Studios Movie Blog, where I posted for a few years under the name “Phoebe Evergreen.” I may put up a couple other greatest hits as a substitute for writing new things.

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I forgot to mention: I have a story in the latest issue of The Bitter Oleander. Pick it up at the Barnes & Noble or something. It’s mostly a poetry journal, and apart from me this issue they have a bunch of poems from Elizabeth McLagan that I liked.

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My friend at Nutgraf has been collecting advice. Mine is up today, an offering slightly more specific and technical than previous entries. Friends and readers of friends–that is to say, you–are very welcome to contribute. Don’t you have any advice to give? Posterity will thank you. So will Nutgraf.

While you’re over there, don’t forget to check out her experiments and product comparisons. Which mineral water is the best? The results may surprise you.

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But here inventiveness, confined to a fairy-land reality, must be applied only to garnishings, for the genteel tendency of the magazine precludes it from touching on the real problems concerning food (the real problem is not to have the idea of sticking cherries into a partridge, it is to have the partridge, that is to say, to pay for it).

–Roland Barthes, “Ornamental Cookery”, Mythologies

I foodblogged!

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