Better Than Friday - 46 (Patreon)

Good afternoon everyone, hope this finds you safe and well, thanks as always for the support. 

1. A Book I'm Excited to Read Soon 

 Stefan Zweig was an Austrian author, and friend of Sigmund Freud, whose books were burned by the Nazis. 

He fled Europe during the war, eventually ending up in Brazil with his wife.

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.

Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of his barracks. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host's lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder, yet one that will go on to destroy his life, as pity and guilt gradually implicate him in a well-meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot to restore the unhappy invalid to health.

 - From Amazon

2. Infinity Land Press 

A publisher that recently sent me a fantastic looking copy of Antonin Artaud's 'Heliogabalus'. 

3. Chuck Palahniuk on Censorship in Writing 

Warning - A pretty rough clip, but great advice from a great writer about the trouble with censorship. 

4. Poet Eileen Myles on Writing on Drugs 

Eileen Myles is a poet whom I recently heard interview Robert Glück on a Zoom call hosted by Mcnally Jackson.

I did a bit of research and came across this fantastic clip. 

They prepare you to die. They prepare you to lose things, they prepare you to fall in love. 

5. A Song That Changed My Life 

I listened to this in the San Francisco airport when I was 15 or 16 after my little brother picked up the CD (ah the good old days) from Amoeba music. Totally transformed us, I think. 

This is my favorite thing to drink during the summer. Grapefruit juice and beer. I've been told cyclists drink them. 

Had one with a killer fried chicken sandwich at Reel M Inn - Just in case you ever make it to Portland.