My novel, Peloponnesia, drops today. On Amazon, BN.COM and in a local bookstore near you.
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Online Talk with author I am adapting now - http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rarebirdradio/2012/01/27/tom-benedek-and-
Cocoon screenwriter, photographer, and author of Peloponnesia, Tom Benedek, talks with Dr. Louis Breger, psychologist, former professor at Caltech and author of Feodor Dostoevsky: The Author as Psychoanalyst, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision, A Dream of Undying Fame: How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis, and Psychotherapy: Lives Intersecting.
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Tom Benedek and Alan Furst 01/26 by rarebirdradio | Blog Talk Radio →
I am speaking with spy novelist Alan Furst on the interweb at noon Pacific today.
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On publication date 2/28, I’ll stop photographing the manuscript of my novel, Peloponnesia. (I hope.)
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Unearthed novel - Peloponnesia. I read from it last night at Library Girl - Ruskin Theatre - Santa Monica. First public utterance of pages from my first novel. Thrilling.
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The Death of the Book
Ben Ehrenreich
Image: Dirty Book #1 © Tom Benedek 2011
Pity the book. It’s dead again. Last I checked, Googling “death of the book” produced 11.8 million matches. The day before it was 11.6 milion. It’s getting unseemly. Books were once such handsome things. Suddenly they seem clunky, heavy, almost fleshy in their gross materiality. Their pages grow brittle. Their ink fades. Their spines collapse. They are so pitiful, they might as well be human.
The emphasis shifts with each telling, but every writer, editor, publisher, bookseller, and half-attentive reader knows the fundamental story. After centuries of steady climbing, book sales leveled off towards the end of the 1900s. Basic literacy began to plummet. As if television and Reaganomics were not danger enough, some egghead lunatics went and built a web—a web!—out of nothing but electrons. It proved a sneaky and seductive monster. Straight to our offices and living rooms, the web delivered chicken recipes, weather forecasts, pornography, the cutest kitten videos the world had ever seen. But while we were distracted by these glittering gifts, the internet conspired to snare our friend the book, to smother it.
(Source: lareviewofbooks)
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Tom Benedek Opening at Frank Pictures, Bergamot, Santa Monica, March 26th, 6:30 - 9:30PM
Tom Benedek
Photographs and Sculptures
Opening Reception at Frank Pictures,
March 26th, 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Preview of Peloponnesia: As Tortured Narrative
Selected Works from Shot by the Writer and Heated Words
Tom Benedek’s first novel, Peloponnesia, will be published in 2011. Tortured Narrative explores the raw states of a completed text, the manuscript of the novel. The photographs and sculptures in Tortured Narrative use physical drafts of the text in galleys and proofs as representations of states of composition and decomposition —the transition of imagined creation to print and paper and beyond — and as evidence for the mutability of text both literally and figuratively. The material ferments, dissolves, reconfigures itself in both its organic, tangible form and in the writer’s mind beyond the printed page.
Exhibit on view through April 12, 2011
Frank Pictures
Bergamot Station A-5
2525 Michigan Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90404
TOMBENEDEK.COM
info@tombenedek.com
310.8280211
www.frankpicturesgallery.com
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