Lana Del Rey was born, she announced in the title of her major-label debut, to die. At thirty-eight, she has yet to live up to her promise. To what do we owe this pleasure? Andrew Marzoni examines the songstress’s body of work.
“If the word is living, then God is not dead, the Bible is unfinished, and a new day is coming. Stevens predicted that day would be in 1979.”
“How did a conceptual artist who spent the 1960s hobnobbing with the Beatles end up, in the 1970s, speaking in tongues on a farm in rural Iowa?”
Andrew Marzoni grew up in the Christian cult the Living Word Fellowship. Back in 2019, he wrote on breaking away—and broader influence of evangelical Christianity on American culture.
From the Archives: Andrew Marzoni looks under the hood of the Christian cult of his youth, whose Boomer members took a hard right turn from the counterculture—and kept driving.
thebaffler.com/salvos/i-saw...
Hierarchy is central to any cult. From the Archives: @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social writes on the Living Word Fellowship, whose power structure resembled the org chart of a Fortune 500 Company.
love this profile of Richard Hell, the central thesis of which seems to be “everyone talks about Hell’s seminal influence on punk despite his relatively brief time as a musician, & how much he fucks, but not his writing, even though hes 76 & wrote many books” www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/177...
Today brings Andrew Marzoni’s profile of Richard Hell and I am here for it.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/177...
On the occasion of the @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social reissue of his 2005 novel, Godlike, I profiled Richard Hell for Poetry magazine. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/177...
I reviewed Jay Kelly for @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/2030...
It’s no coincidence that the year since Gary died has been one of the worst on record. www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/t...
As #NYFF63 opens tonight, now is as good a time as any to revisit my @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social round-up of last year’s slate. nyra.nyc/articles/fol...
Service by John Tottenham from @semiotexte.bsky.social. It’s extraordinary, but don’t take my word for it… bsky.app/profile/andr...
Happy 101st to James Baldwin. I wrote this for @readliberties.bsky.social on the occasion of his centennial. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Today is #bandcampfriday and some of you haven’t heard Deposition yet. pizzaguy.bandcamp.com/album/deposi...
Once more for the weekend crowd.
Extremely proud of my students Gabby and Gabriel, who won the New York Public Library’s James Baldwin Teen Creative Contest and got to meet his nephew Trevor.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
"Everything Is Now feels like the culmination of a life’s work, the New York book that Hoberman was born to write." As the child of a lifelong city worker & a Brooklyn College educated social worker, I can say that's true.
For @thenation.com, I wrote about J. Hoberman’s New York. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
For @thenation.com, I wrote about J. Hoberman’s New York. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Thanks for coming to the first and hopefully not last sold-out Pizza Guy show @versobooks.bsky.social.
BOTD Rainer Fassbinder!! MCCT5 5)Lola 4)Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 3)Chinese Roulette 2)Veronica Voss 1)Bitter Tears of PvK
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@daveyjenkins.bsky.social: lwlies.com/articles/rai...
@dwhdaily.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@andrewmarzoni.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
It’s Deposition Day @versobooks.bsky.social, and Pizza Guy is debuting a six-piece band. Doors @ 7:30, show @ 8. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/d...
Tomorrow @ 8!
Novelist and essayist James Baldwin. Credit: Ted Thai—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
#booksky for #booklovers of #essays and #nonfiction 📚💙
A classic appreciation of James Baldwin, and a superb, original, and insightful intellectual essay: Freelance Blues — James Baldwin in the Magazines. By Andrew Marzoni
libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
"Without a robust vanguard of publishers, editors, writers, and readers fighting to persist with Baldwin's long overdue critique, the fire will go out before it can spread."
“Slowcore show at the @versobooks.bsky.social office” sounds like the title of a song I would write, but it’s also a very real thing happening on May 30. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/d...
