To celebrate the launch of Karl Whitney’s book, Hidden City, in Dublin on Monday, 1 September, we are pleased to post a longer extract from ‘The Run of the Streets,’ Karl’s essay for gorse no. 1. Hidden City has already had a five-star review in the Telegraph.
February 9, 1928 at the Studio des Ursulines: the story of Antonin Artaud’s disagreement with Germaine Dulac over her treatment of his screenplay for La Coquille et le Clergyman is as well known as it is mired in confusion.
We’ll be putting pre-order details for gorse no. 2 on the site this week, but we couldn’t resist showing off a draft of the cover, designed by the very brilliant Niall McCormack.
The first image was a means of rendering visible a presence, of which I have aware of all my life, in whose comforting solidity the anguish of inception had crystallised.
