From Issue 4 - Portfolio
Gray Water Study (I), Ink and Gouache on Paper, 7” x 10”, 2012 by Cindy Stockton-Moore
Description:
The recent paintings are nightscapes that hint at impending (or subsiding) doom. The imagined landscapes are inspired by my memory of growing up in Florida–disparate scenes of controlled burns, coastal floods, and youthful exploits.  Located somewhere between adventure and disaster, the paintings offer a glimpse into my on-going exploration of the tenuous relationship between the figure and its environment. 

From Issue 4 - Portfolio

Gray Water Study (I), Ink and Gouache on Paper, 7” x 10”, 2012 by Cindy Stockton-Moore

Description:

The recent paintings are nightscapes that hint at impending (or subsiding) doom. The imagined landscapes are inspired by my memory of growing up in Florida–disparate scenes of controlled burns, coastal floods, and youthful exploits.  Located somewhere between adventure and disaster, the paintings offer a glimpse into my on-going exploration of the tenuous relationship between the figure and its environment. 

ISSUE 4 of THE RUSTY TOQUE - PORTFOLIO by ARNOLD KOROSHEGYI
BREAK SPOTS
The photographic series “Break Spots” is a glimpse into the personal space of the Everyday.  Shot with a clinical distance and devoid of human presence, the images of unmemorable, makeshift locations nevertheless offer up a kind of intimacy, suggesting what lies beyond the frame in people’s lives.

ISSUE 4 of THE RUSTY TOQUE - PORTFOLIO by ARNOLD KOROSHEGYI

BREAK SPOTS

The photographic series “Break Spots” is a glimpse into the personal space of the Everyday.  Shot with a clinical distance and devoid of human presence, the images of unmemorable, makeshift locations nevertheless offer up a kind of intimacy, suggesting what lies beyond the frame in people’s lives.

ISSUE 4 of THE RUSTY TOQUE: RUSTY TALK with RODDY DOYLE
What is the best writing advice that you’ve gotten that you actually use?“Treat it as a job; don’t expect magic.”

ISSUE 4 of THE RUSTY TOQUE: RUSTY TALK with RODDY DOYLE

What is the best writing advice that you’ve gotten that you actually use?
“Treat it as a job; don’t expect magic.”

ISSUE 4 of THE RUSTY TOQUE - PORTFOLIO by MARC BELL

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ISSUE 4 of THE RUSTY TOQUE

Wind Almanac (For Joris Ivens) By Mitchell Akiyama

Wind is the sound recordist’s nemesis. It is excess and error, the noise that smothers the sounds the recordist had hoped to capture. Of course, hearing itself is not so pristine. We hear the wind rushing across our ear canals whenever a light breeze blows past. Such disturbances insinuate themselves into the background of experience and pass unnoticed. But microphones are not ears; recorded, the wind overtakes all other sound, masking it in sheets of white noise. Wind Almanac is an attempt to befriend it, to use error to tell a story about our relationship to recorded sound.

specialedition87:

Here is George W. Bush’s painting of himself taking a shower.
Discuss. 

specialedition87:

Here is George W. Bush’s painting of himself taking a shower.

Discuss. 

Reblogged from Special Edition.

RUSTY TALK WITH SHEILA HETI

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Kathryn Mockler: What is your first memory of writing creatively?  
Sheila Heti: I don’t have a first memory of writing. Or reading. Or speaking! Or hearing words. 
 
KM: What keeps your going as a writer or why do you write? 
SH: Because not much else makes time feel so bottomless.

Read more: 

http://www.therustytoque.com/3/post/2011/12/sheila-heti-writer-and-uwos-writer-in-residence.html

Thursday Night by Bonnie Bowman

 From Issue 2, Spring 2012


Thursday night. I’m at Rude’s house, watching her struggle to open a bottle of wine. Her birth name is Gertrude, which quickly got shortened to Trudy, over the years further shrinking to Trude, and finally, Rude. If she were young enough to be a hip hop DJ, she might be T-Rude or something like that. Neither one of us is young anymore. 

Continue reading:

http://www.therustytoque.com/fiction-thusday-night-by-bonnie-bowman.html

ISSUE 4 of THE RUSTY TOQUE LAUNCHES IN FEBRUARY 2013But if you can’t wait until February, enjoy this sneak peek from Issue 4 by Tao Lin: friendless, young hamster stepping over crevice while flying kite

ISSUE 4 of THE RUSTY TOQUE LAUNCHES IN FEBRUARY 2013

But if you can’t wait until February, enjoy this sneak peek from Issue 4 by Tao Lin: friendless, young hamster stepping over crevice while flying kite

SOWING BY GILLIAN SZE

Bougainvilleas are crying the morning of departure.
Last night’s rain trembles from the petals.
The streets already smell of roasted chestnuts.

My goodbye is perfectly round like a candlenut,
sour like calamansi.
I set it on a shard of coconut outside the house
and like a fallen leaf, it roots itself in the fibres,
grows and grows and grows.


Issue 2, Spring 2012 

Read more of Gillian Sze’s poetry:
http://www.therustytoque.com/poetry-four-poems-by-gillian-sze.html

believermag:

You probably have 44 minutes right now to watch this brilliant documentary about Leonard Cohen, Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen, which was filmed in 1965 and is on the NFB (National Film Board) of Canada website. Initially supposed to be about three poets on tour across the country, it was edited down to just one poet. It’s fascinating. He’s wonderful. See a young writer at the cusp of things…

believermag:

You probably have 44 minutes right now to watch this brilliant documentary about Leonard Cohen, Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen, which was filmed in 1965 and is on the NFB (National Film Board) of Canada website. Initially supposed to be about three poets on tour across the country, it was edited down to just one poet. It’s fascinating. He’s wonderful. See a young writer at the cusp of things…

Reblogged from The Believer Logger