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White Dialogues
(2012)(A book in the Electric Literature's Recommended Reading series)
A Story by Bennett Sims
"White Dialogues," a story that reads like film criticism or film criticism that reads like a story, is more than influenced by great ideas. It lives inside them - plays them out, gifts them the arc of discovery and application.
From "White Dialogues": With each passing era, I know, mankind has perfected the perverse art of preserving corpses. First the mummy, then the death mask, then the photograph. After the photograph, there remained only one logical step: the moving image. From Egypt down to the Egyptian Theater, there has been a direct and unbroken lineage. Every movie is a pyramid, stuffed tight with mummies. Every movie is a mobile gallery of death masks. I have always felt this way. Whereas most viewers see actors' faces, all I see are death masks.
About Recommended Reading:
Great authors inspire us. But what about the stories that inspire them? Recommended Reading, the latest project from Electric Literature, publishes one story every week, each chosen by a great author or editor. In this age of distraction, we uncover writing that's worth slowing down and spending some time with. And in doing so, we help give great writers, literary magazines, and independent presses the recognition (and readership) they deserve.
About Bennett Sims: Bennett Sims's fiction has appeared in A Public Space, Tin House, and Zoetrope: All-Story. His first novel, A Questionable Shape, is forthcoming in May 2013. He lives in Iowa City, IA.
Genre: Mystery
From "White Dialogues": With each passing era, I know, mankind has perfected the perverse art of preserving corpses. First the mummy, then the death mask, then the photograph. After the photograph, there remained only one logical step: the moving image. From Egypt down to the Egyptian Theater, there has been a direct and unbroken lineage. Every movie is a pyramid, stuffed tight with mummies. Every movie is a mobile gallery of death masks. I have always felt this way. Whereas most viewers see actors' faces, all I see are death masks.
About Recommended Reading:
Great authors inspire us. But what about the stories that inspire them? Recommended Reading, the latest project from Electric Literature, publishes one story every week, each chosen by a great author or editor. In this age of distraction, we uncover writing that's worth slowing down and spending some time with. And in doing so, we help give great writers, literary magazines, and independent presses the recognition (and readership) they deserve.
About Bennett Sims: Bennett Sims's fiction has appeared in A Public Space, Tin House, and Zoetrope: All-Story. His first novel, A Questionable Shape, is forthcoming in May 2013. He lives in Iowa City, IA.
Genre: Mystery
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