Dear readers,
Do you know the difference between an astronaut and a cosmonot? Where does the difference rest -Naut Was trained: Cosmonots from astronauts from Russia and United States, Canada or Europe. Not China, though: Chinese version is one TaiKonaut. If another job is available evenly with three different names of silk mouth-pure, I can’t think of it.
-Naut Distinction is one of several vocabulary upgrades that you can get from Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital”, which has taken the books desk by the store. No one pays us to be obsessed with specific books simultaneously; This only happens. (If we are paid, you will know. Our fingers will be heavy with diamonds.)
To compete with the expander dream of “orbital”, I became down and dirty with Ian Penman’s collection of music essays. If you treat James Brown and Prince (between others) to see the choice of an X-ray machine and next to a poet, Penman is your failure.
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How strange it should be to be present in a place without weather-a place where you cannot enjoy the gravitational-cosmic relief of flopping on your bed after a long day, and where you feel like swimming, it is actually a free-making position at a distance of about 17,000 mph. The “orbital” teleports you to the space -circling space in a space station. The novel winning the Booker Prize in 2024 covers the same day in the life of six Astro-/Cosmonauts.
I have written about the author, Samantha Harvey first. His memoir of insomnia, called “The Shapeless Unis”, is my second favorite source of meditation in sleep after “Macbeth”. His first novel, “The Wilderness”, focused on a person suffering from Alzheimer’s. I mention these entries in Harvey’s back catalogs because they highlight his interest of how humans experience time. In the case of insomnia, time Queasily Lurches and Disress; In Alzheimer’s, chronology becomes a chakrata, and in outer space – back in “orbital” – time is distorted psychidelicically, with 16 sunrise and sunset each day.
The imaginative passage through which humans imagine the external place – Philip. From dick to “Star Trek: The Next Generation” to “Interstaller” – is always a useful way to map our collective health. Do we see space with an optimistic gaze? With dollar signals in our eyes? With royal designs? With disappointment? I will not tell much about the tone of “orbital”, besides tingling it with poignancy.
If you like it then read: NASA to spend hours in image collection, John Winham, The Films of Terence Malik, Deadrimation.
Available from: A good library, a good book store or apparently anyone working in this newspaper.
“This is me home, it’s a curved track,” By Ian Pennman
Critic, 2019
Pennman’s book is a trip through all barks: high, middle and low. He is one of our best living music critics – a person who can pay homage to the vocal technique of Frank Sinatra, as well as accepting that young Francis Did Look a little like “a semolina dough mickey mouse”. (It is not that it left him and stopped the right women from scooping!)
This volume assembles essays on James Brown, Elvis Presley, Prince, Charlie Parker, Steel Dan, John Fahi and others. Every piece has her own life, but James Brown is my favorite: a sensitive etiology of a complex man, it brightens music, a knot opens the personality and highlights the mysteries of brown’s 1 and Richard Nixon and 2) PCP-inspired decline.
If you like it then read: The Late, Great Art Critic Peter Shajeldhal; Late, the great Gary Indiana; Late, the great Manny Farber; Bill Morison’s magnificent mini-cuisine on the village pawn, called “The Mohra Tapes”.
Available from: Fitzcarraldo version.
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