James Randall Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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editor/writer | PhD from @GoldsmithsUoL | books, poetry, cities, forests, creativity | ‘The longer you look at a thing / the more it transforms’ — Anne Michaels
The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetites
Adam PhillipsJames Randall‘the child leaves more than one home - something she will do every time she speaks, which is always out of her own previous silence. That noisy silence, before language joined in, is a lengthy part of her own history.’ Adam Phillips, The Beast in the Nursery
Paperback, 1999
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Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
Michel ChionJames Randall@shannonmattern also acousmatic, see Michel Chion: a sound or voice operating phantasm-ally when we do not see the source (esp. cinema)
Paperback, 2016
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Pessoa: A Biography
Richard ZenithJames RandallWhat shady path of mystery was followed by our best fantasies, which so vividly remember this world’s trickling waters, cypress trees and boxwoods…? Fernando Pessoa, Book of Disquiet tr. Richard Zenith
Paperback, 2023
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Les Enfants Terribles
Jean CocteauJames RandallJean Cocteau drawing from Les Enfants terribles (1929) https://t.co/6r8DPeIV0I
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Transparent Things
Vladimir NabokovJames Randall’Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned… the past would not be so seductive…’ Transparent Things, Vladimir Nabokov
Paperback, 1989
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