Checking Proofs: Black Alibi & Leopard Man
In an email that looked surprisingly like a phishing attempt, I got the link to my proofs for the forthcoming collection on Cornell Woolrich. I get to jazz enthusiastically about Black Alibi, Leopard Man, Val Lewton and Ardel Wray so that’s fun. There’s not a whole lot of academic work on Woolrich (and some of…
Surreal Noir: 14 Dec 2022
Tonight at 2030 UK/1330 NY it’s another episode of SURREAL NOIR! Drop over to the NoBounds Radio mix cloud page to listen live. Ending the calendar year with new music from across the globe including a new track from Eleni Poulou, new season treats from Laura Cannell, Moor Mother, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir. (Apologies for hastily…
#Tarot #Noir: William Lindsay Gresham’s Nightmare Alley – Jan 25
TAROT NOIR: WILLIAM LINDSAY GRESHAM’S NIGHTMARE ALLEY It’s no surprise that Guillermo del Toro sought for years to make his own neo-noir version of Gresham’s novel. The heady combination of the occult, tarot, the carnival and grifters in the ‘spook racket’ made the original novel a bestseller and led matinee idol Tyrone Power to risk…
Review: Tár
I ran off to watch this on an afternoon when I was feeling poorly and annoyed and irritated. I didn’t know it was three hours long. When my ass in the chair told me it had really been more than two hours I checked my phone. So it’s not that it dragged at all. It…
Enchanted: Why Magic Persists
The OLLI Distinguished Speakers Series presents
Professor Kathryn Laity on:
Enchanted: Why Magic Persists Across Millennia
Create: Joy
ART OPENING! Saturday November 19th 4-6pm Create Gallery, 398 Main Street, Catskill NY CREATE recently had a call for art that embodied the theme JOY, and I am happy to say my mask entitled ‘Meditation’ is going to be included in the show. There’s an opening event on November 19th. Hopefully a few people can…
A Year of Deep Listening: Listen to Birds
As a part of the Year of Deep Listening in honour of Pauline Oliveros, the Center for Deep Listening is giving daily meditations on the practice and this is my turn on the stage. Try it and see if you don’t feel different after. This piece has been adapted from a forthcoming collection of meditations…
Surreal Noir: 9 Nov 2022
Tonight at 2100 UK/1600 NY it’s another episode of SURREAL NOIR! Drop over to the NoBounds Radio mix cloud page to listen live. This month you get a sneak peek at my MAPACA presentation on IVY starring Joan Fontaine, based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes. Noirvember gets Gothic! Also music from Finnish mystic…
Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros
DEEP LISTENING: THE STORY OF PAULINE OLIVEROS I will not even pretend to any objectivity about this film: I contributed to the fundraising and to my considerable surprise, I am ever-so-briefly in it during one of the Deep Listening workshops at RPI. Discovering Oliveros and her concept of Deep Listening transformed my life-long fascination with…
K. A. Laity 