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March 01, 2005
Liars update and Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon, author of the story collection "The Question of Bruno" and the novel "Nowhere Man", has a new story out in the February 28th issue of the New Yorker (pg. 70, people), called 'The Conductor'. As with many of Hemon's stories, this one assumes an almost autobiographical tone, relating the narrator's struggle to write poetry (well) and his interactions with a writer's circle in his native Sarajevo (and also his encounter with one of the authors from said circle, post-war, in the States). Hemon is one of my favorite writers, and the comparisons to Nabokov that get thrown around in regard to Hemon's style are well warranted. With sentences like this: "his eyebrows looked like little hirsute comets", it's difficult to believe that the man spoke no English when he came to the country in 1992. Read 'The Conductor' if you get the chance.
And Liars finally updated their news section with some reports of the new album that has been forthcoming since a few months ago. Here's what Aaron Hemphill (guitarist, sometimes drummer) had to say: "It's been a while since there has been any news....We finished recording again. For a fun game, scroll down the news section and see how many times we've "finished recording again"! There's no way I'm even going to guess if/when Mute will release it, so pretend I never said anything. Thanks alot to all the great people we spent time with in Italy. More tour dates soon."
Sounds like it could be a long wait for the follow-up to They Were Wrong...
Posted by Kevin at March 1, 2005 11:23 PM
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