Douglas Wolk
My blogs
| Location | Portland, Oregon |
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| Introduction | I write about pop music and comic books for a lot of places. My book "Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean" was published by Da Capo in 2007; my book "Live at the Apollo" was published by Continuum in 2004. |
| Interests | burning man, comic books, dark beloved cloud, fake beatles, grooks, human bodies, immanuel kant, intentional communities, khichri, krazy kat, mistranslation, oulipo, parenting, post-punk, small handmade presents, spectacle, stone-fruit, the invisibles, vegetarian cooking, viridian design |
| Favorite movies | Close-Up, Blow-Up, 35 Up, What's Up Doc? |
| Favorite music | James Brown, the Fall, Family Fodder, LiLiPUT, Swell Maps, Brian Eno, Eric B. & Rakim, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns, Robert Wyatt, Ida, LCD Soundsystem, the Magick Heads, Dog Faced Hermans, Ivor Cutler, Fat Day, Melt-Banana, Stereolab, Optiganally Yours, the Clean, New Bad Things, the Art of Noise, Nightblooms, Martin Carthy, Mission of Burma, Aster Aweke, Little Sister, the New Pornographers, Belle & Sebastian, Boredoms, and NOTHING ELSE |
| Favorite books | Infinite Jest, Rising Up and Rising Down, Clarissa, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Labyrinths, The Master Letters, Oranges, Lipstick Traces, Fun Home, A Humument, Hips, Locas, Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the '70s, Candide |