Photographs by Kate Joyce (1998-1999 C.E.) Translation by Andrew Berns (2020 C.E.) Excerpts from The Latin Library Metamorphoses by Ovid (c 8 C.E.) Designed by Kate Joyce Published by Kate Joyce/Special Problems Press Softcover 7.44 x 9.69 in. 18.9 x 24.61 cm. 250 b&w photographs 672 pages Copies of Metamorphoses are available here Recent press […]
Big Ears Knoxville (book)
Photographs by Kate Joyce Preface by Ben Ratliff Essays by Rachel Grimes and Joe Henry Music by Sam Amidon, Laurie Anderson, Bryce Dessner, Mats Eilersten, Diamanda Galás, Kronos Quartet, Wu Man, The Necks, Meshell Ndegeocello, Nils Okland, Yuki Numata Resnick, Marc Ribot, Terry Riley, and Jenny Scheinman. Hardcover, 136 pages 8 x 12 in. […]
Jem Cohen’s film “Chuck-will’s-widow” (multi-media)
There’s not much that could make me feel better about Gene Smith’s Sink than Jem Cohen’s short film based on it, “Chuck-will’s-widow,” and his words to introduce the film’s online premiere at The Paris Review Daily. The film premiered on screen at National Sawdust in Brooklyn in October. Jem’s work has influenced me for almost as long as […]
Big, Bent Ears (multi-media)
Rock Fish Stew is proud to introduce a new 10-part series for The Paris Review called Big, Bent Ears: A Serial in Documentary Uncertainty — the famed literary magazine’s first foray into multi-media storytelling. Launching March 4, 2015, the bi-weekly series explores the theme of careful listening, in all its various incarnations. The name Big, Bent […]
Gene Smith’s Sink Has New Subtitle and Epigraph
Gene Smith’s Sink: A Wide-Angle View. By Sam Stephenson. Epigraph: I was once present at a lecture that Eugene Smith gave to some students at a school of photography. At the end, they protested because he had made no mention of photography, but had spoken the whole time about music. He calmed them by […]
Sam Stephenson’s 2017 Book Previewed by FSG
Farrar, Straus and Giroux has completed text for their Spring 2017 catalog (to be published in September) and here’s how they describe Gene Smith’s Sink by Sam Stephenson, Rock Fish Stew founder and partner. In an interview with Philippe Halsman, W. Eugene Smith remarked: “I didn’t write the rules—why should I follow them?” Famously unabashed, Smith is […]
The Big Ears Film: Rock Fish Stew to Document Knoxville Festival for 3rd Year (view trailer)
The Big Ears Documentary Project www.thebigearsfilm.org Rock Fish Stew to Document Big Ears for Third Consecutive Year A New Website for the Project is Live Watch the Big Ears Film Trailer HERE Installation of work-in-progress in Knoxville this week at Zach Searcy Projects The Durham, N.C.-based Rock Fish Stew (www.rockfishstew.org) will immerse a team of […]
Rock Fish Stew Seeks Spring Interns
Rock Fish Stew, a Durham-based documentary production company, seeks two self-starting interns for Spring 2016 who can contribute 12-hours per week from the end of January through early May. Interns will help support our current documentary project on the Big Ears music festival in Knoxville, TN. Big Ears, called last week by The Guardian of London “surely […]
The Last Kissa: John Darnielle’s Setlist
It was a great night of listening. Among many, one of my takeaways is that Zoot Sims played saxophone on Phoebe Snow’s 1974 tune, “Poetry Man.” I’ve been researching Sims off and on for more than fifteen years and when I learned this last night I almost toppled over with surprise and delight. That’s why […]
John Darnielle Ramps Down 2015 Big, Bent Ears Kissa Series Thursday Night
Tonight at CAM Raleigh, John Darnielle, the musician (Mountain Goats) and novelist (“Wolf in White Van)”, closes out our 2015 Big, Bent Ears kissa series with a set he describes this way: “I’m calling it RAMPING DOWN and I’ll start with intense metal stuff and move into mellower stuff. So I think the image should […]