DRAF – David Roberts Art Foundation. Publication Studio – Books. The Back Room - An Anthology by Matthew Stadler The back room is an occasional series of presentations/symposia/bacchanals in Portland, Oregon, replete with food, drink, music, and general boisterousness garlanding the central pleasure of bright intellects voicing their excellent texts, winging it in conversation, and screening or presenting various textual and visual delights.
It is an "open source" social/cultural tool, developed and enacted by the various people who choose to use it. Past guests of the back room have included Walid Raad, Lawrence Rinder, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Laurie Reid, Anne Focke, Matthew Stadler, Wayne Koestenbaum, Gore Vidal, and many others. Past musical guests have included YACHT, Stephen Malkmus, Mise en Abyme, Calvin Johnson, Valet, Dave Longstreth, White Rainbow, and Lucky Dragons. This book collects documents of the ongoing conversations of the back room. This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons. Matthew Stadler. Author and "literary organizer" Matthew Stadler at Knecht Camp in 2008.
Matthew Stadler has written four novels and received several awards and fellowships in recognition of his work. More recently, he has compiled four anthologies about literature, city life and public life. His essays have been published in magazines and museum catalogs around the world, and focus on architecture, urban planning and the problem of sprawl.
"Sprawl is the disappearance of an idea", Stadler writes in the annotated reader, Where We Live Now, "So how can we go on speaking of the city and the country, yet not remain fixed in the downward spiral of loss? " [1] Stadler's numerous essays and larger projects, such as suddenly.org [1] explore this question by looking for better language and new descriptions. Novels[edit] Sprawl and Urbanism[edit] At a 1993 conference in Rotterdam, called Bliss, Stadler was asked to respond to Rem Koolhaas's recently published "Manifesto for Bigness. " London Review of Books · 24 January 2013. Robin Kinross < Hyphen Press. Reading Notes for Don't Take Any Jobs (Matthew Stadler)
Matthew Stadler Reading Notes for Don't Take Any Jobs Note One hi!
Thanks again for your patience. i appreciate it. deadlines for this issue have been interesting… i was finally able to connect with my colleague about the piece, and sit down with it quietly myself afterward to be able to convey our thoughts about it to you. firstly, i really enjoyed it. It’s a great and complete piece, but as it stands right now, i’m not sure it’s right for this opening section of the magazine, the tone of which is difficult to convey, but which i’d like to talk with you about, maybe on the phone. i actually think the piece as is has a premise that would work really well for the section, so i have two propositions for you, and am wondering if either of them appeals, as i know you’ve already put time and energy into this draft. Note Two Sadly, paradoxically, as much as I liked writing, I truly loved teaching. Urban Honking. The Serving Library.
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