July 2011
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WatchMan Ray’s masterful cinepoem Emak Bakia, 1926.
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Don't forget to submit to Issue Three by August 1! →
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Christopher Hitchens' article about living and... →
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In Which Poetry Asserts Its Mastery Over Prose, a... →
So here’s the set up. There’s a male fiction writer, a male poet and a girl who writes both poetry and prose. Let’s call them Sidney, Phillip and Clara. At the school they all attend – let’s call it the University of Ottawa – there are two writing workshops offered in the evenings. Sidney goes to the short story one on Tuesdays, Phillip goes to the poetry one on Wednesdays and pretty little...
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Dragnet Presents Sober Second Thoughts
Dragnet is launching a weekly column by (or rather, verbally dictated to) Issue One contributor Luke LeBrun. It is entitled Sober Second Thoughts: Moralistic Musings on the Decline of Western Civilization by Percival W. Pennyweather (Public Intellectual).
Percival is a grumpy but erudite 19th-century holdover in the vein of Harold Bloom and in his first piece, he tackles the recent Royal visit...
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“When I gathered flowers
for my girl
from the top of the plum tree
the lower...”
– Kakinomoto No Hitomaro
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An article about the absurdly talented English... →
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Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love →
From the Guardian:
JD Salinger, Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer were all devotees of the orgone energy accumulator, nicknamed by Woody Allen the ‘Orgasmatron’. Its inventor, Wilhelm Reich, claimed that better orgasms could cure society’s ills
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Coming soon: A "collabo" between Dragnet Mag "x"...
Stay tuned. For now, you can read Luke’s piece in Issue One. Oh, and look at this heavily redacted image of several lines of text.
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Responding to my friend's complaint about his...
“Sure the book sucks, but what have you ever done for the book? You take and take and take, but what do you give back? That book used to be a part of a part of an old-growth rainforest and now it’s a part of the Faber learning series, how do you think that makes it feel?”
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Bradley Manning's internet chats with Zach Antolak... →
From The Guardian:
In the chats, Manning uses the internet handle bradass87, while Antolak goes by ZJ (or on YouTube as Zinnia Jones). In the course of their cyber-discussions, Manning describes his life in the army and its discriminatory don’t ask don’t tell (DADT) policy towards gays, talks about his time in a Welsh school, life at home with his father in Oklahoma, his thoughts on...
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The Chairs Are Where the People Go →
sheilaheti:
This book, which I wrote with Misha Glouberman, is being released today. Misha is one of those people who says things that help me out in life, whether he means for them to or not. I tend to seek out people like this. I like people who are loyal, strong, steadfast, and understand…
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WatchTrailer for http://www.thewalruslaughs.com/
This special adjunct to walrusmagazine.com is where The Walrus Foundation lets its tusks down. In the left column below, veteran comedy producer Perry Rosemond is collaborating with some of Canada’s wittiest writers and thinkers to build an exclusive collection of good cheer. Down the middle, an archive of humourous articles, comics, and essays from...
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As I got home last night I untied one shoe and then took the other, still tied, shoe off. I thought it might have some sort of resonance in relation to my life and general decision making, but then I just dumped all the papers off my bed and went to sleep.
I don’t remember what I dreamed about.
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Dragnet Issue Two now live →
Dragnet Magazine Issue Two features writing by Susan Musgrave, Nick Ripatrazone, and Midge Raymond, as well as many upcoming voices (see the trailer). Check it out now, funk soul brother, right about now.
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If you didn't make it into Issue Two, submit to... →
P.S. Even if you are in Issue Two, you can still be in Issue Three. We don’t have any rules about how often you can submit.
