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Peeking wo/man
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April 25, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my …
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Category: The Picture Goers | Tags: 61, art, drawing, love, man, peeking, Shakespeare, sonnet, woman
Six Spring Tweets
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April 1, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Social media ‘haikus’ on my blog — my motto for spring comes from Wikimedia; the caption for the photograph said: «Old beggar of Tangier, Morocco singing a monotonous, wailing chant to attract the attention of the passers-by. He is a cheerful soul, however, and a pleasant contrast to some of the members of his brotherhood who capitalize their deformities.» — This could be me waiting for Thank You For Your Sperm. [Continue reading]

Category: Stories, The Picture Goers | Tags: 19th century, Beggar, Bertolucci, Brando, Charles Baudelaire, H. C. Andersen, hypnosis, Jorge Luis Borges, Milton Erickson, paris, Samurai, Schneider, Tangier, trance, tweet, twitter, Wikimedia
Net Worth
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March 24, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Readers of my posts or my fiction may think that I am all over the place mentally, emotionally, procedurally…nothing could …
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Category: Facebook, The Picture Goers, TYFYS, Writerly Advice | Tags: blog, Communication, creativity, facebook, forum, google, interview, marcusspeh, network, podcast, post, quote, readers, tumblr, twitter, TYFYS, value-add, writing
A Small Boy
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March 14, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

A couple of days ago the book “The novels of Henry James” by Edward Wagenknecht arrived at my door. My …
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Category: Guest Post, Podcast, The Picture Goers | Tags: art, audio, bathtub, brain, Edward Wagenknecht, Henry James, Painting, prose, Sargent, small boy
A Facebook Feuilleton
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January 11, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Heads Up. I’ve given you a lot of heads and citations this last month on Facebook. It’s been a month …
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Category: Facebook, Goings-on, The Picture Goers | Tags: Albert Camus, Auguste Rodin, Cynthia Ozick, Dan Brown, Emil Jannings, Ford Madox Ford, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, George du Maurier, George Gissing, Gustave Courbet, Henry James, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hueffer, Ivan Turgenev, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Epstein, Leo Tolstoy, Neuchatel, New Criterion, Oscars, Pevear/Volokhonsky, Punch, Queen Victoria, Seamus Heaney, thomas bernhard, Thomas Mann, William James
The Imagination of Matter
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October 30, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

All art is competition: to begin with there is the artist competing with her art’s own inner image. She imagined …
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Category: Goings-on, Stories, The Picture Goers | Tags: art, Bachelard, berlin, books, Carlye Birkenkrahe, creativity, exhibition, HWR Berlin, imagination, library, paintings, Picture
hipsters having sex
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September 22, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Speh: «An egg-headed, shoulderless man, a creature from a Beckett novel perhaps, who had a heavy gold coin in his …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Metafiction, Stories, The Picture Goers, Writerly Advice | Tags: 100 days 2012, Hipster, puritanism, sex
elephant men
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September 1, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

There was a time when we were all elephant men. Sure, it wasn’t always easy to negotiate two such different …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Stories, The Picture Goers | Tags: 100 days 2012, drawint, elephant man, Picture
true blood
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August 31, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

We’ve been watching the TV series “True Blood”. It’s been hard on our rational minds to be honest. Even though …
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Category: Goings-on, The Picture Goers | Tags: drawing, Martin Cruz Smith, Rose, true blood, vampire, victim
humanity
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August 26, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

After many years of war, Men and Giants finally reached an agreement: the Giants would stay in the cities, and …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Stories, The Picture Goers | Tags: berlin, Borofsky, humanity, Spree

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«At a party, I stood next to a bald guy with a beard who didn’t say anything. I noticed a nearby couple put their heads together and whisper while pointing at me. They were smiling so I went over and inquired if I could help them in any way. “No, not at all,” said the woman, “but listen, isn’t that Sir Salman Rushdie who stood next to you just now? We’re such fans.” The man nodded.»

Excerpt from: My Friend Salman Rushdie, in: Pachydermini Pack 4 (Turtleneck Press); donation dependent download.

«Tara, I look at us in that photo, taken so many years ago, I look at you sandwiched between Tom and me, with our left arms in casts, so ridiculous, it makes me think of music that is ridiculous also, music by Charles Ives with two bands playing against one another, or two melodies backpacking a third, or an instrument entering a dialog of two other instruments like a dangerous stranger. It makes me think of your musical voice and your rich hair, Tara, I’m thinking of you as my ship begins the landing process.»

Excerpt from: Friends, in: In Those Days We, available online at Issuu. Paperback version to appear.

Now at Amazon as paperback and on Kindle. See also goodreads.

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My new collection "Thank You For Your Sperm" is out from MadHat Press now — also at Amazon.: lnkd.in/xVb_iJ 11 hours ago