Author Archives: James J. Conway
The Son of Lîlame
The latest Rixdorf Editions title is out, but you can’t buy it. Ever. But you can get it for free!
The Son of Lîlame
The latest Rixdorf Editions title is out, but you can’t buy it. Ever. But you can get it for free!
The Liberace family tree
Happy hundredth birthday to the artist formerly known as Walter Busterkeys
The sun of God
The strange life of cocovore castaway August Engelhardt, his fictional avatars and his surprising relevance in the present day
The sun of God
The strange life of cocovore castaway August Engelhardt, his fictional avatars and his surprising relevance in the present day
19 books for 2019
Who needs this many books? You do. YOU need this many books.
Dying alone is so boring
Jacques Vaché, Surrealist avant la lettre, checked out 100 years ago today
Secret Satan, 2018
Your essential Christmas book list – it’s naughty, it’s nice. Mostly naughty if we’re honest.
Secret Satan, 2018
Your essential Christmas book list – it’s naughty, it’s nice. Mostly naughty if we’re honest.
An unsettling incident
Johannes Baader and one of the very first art interventions, 100 years ago today in Berlin
An unsettling incident
Johannes Baader and one of the very first art interventions, 100 years ago today in Berlin
Adrift
Ironfoot Jack, Umm Kulthum, Jack Parsons, Harry Crosby… it’s a Strange Flowers Film Festival!
Colette on screen
… along with Mathilde de Morny and Rachilde *squee*
Franziska zu Reventlow (1871-1918)
100 years since the death of the ‘bohemian countess’
Death of a magus
The demise of Joséphin Péladan, the man behind the modern Rosicrucian revival, 100 years ago today
Death of a magus
The demise of Joséphin Péladan, the man behind the modern Rosicrucian revival, 100 years ago today
My one, my eternal mate
“Let us place our ring as wide as the universe around the horizon of the future and of ourselves”: the marriage of Natalie Barney and Lily de Gramont
My one, my eternal mate
“Let us place our ring as wide as the universe around the horizon of the future and of ourselves”: the marriage of Natalie Barney and Lily de Gramont
Beyond the veil
‘Take this white rose – it will redden when I return and then you will be my bride.’ Two excerpts from Death and companion piece Prose Poems, by German author Anna Croissant-Rust
Beyond the veil
‘Take this white rose – it will redden when I return and then you will be my bride.’ Two excerpts from Death and companion piece Prose Poems, by German author Anna Croissant-Rust
“Oh my God. Something’s happened. Lower the curtain”
100 years since the death of Chung Ling Soo (William Robertson)
“Oh my God. Something’s happened. Lower the curtain”
100 years since the death of Chung Ling Soo (William Robertson)
Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern
Mad king v. hapless professor in the final round of Weimar cinema
Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern
Mad king v. hapless professor in the final round of Weimar cinema
The lonely death of Valeska Gert
“Kitty’s a gourmet, he doesn’t like me anymore …”
18 books for 2018
Three Marcels, two Nutters and a Sissi: imaginary lives and lives beyond imagining.
18 books for 2018
Three Marcels, two Nutters and a Sissi: imaginary lives and lives beyond imagining.
Light in the darkness
Decad of Intelligence, a newly rediscovered work by Ithell Colquhoun
Privates on parade
“His day’s service at an end, the soldier usually goes home to his friend…”
