This Rabbit has never quite gotten Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero to equate. We read the book when it came out in 1985. We liked it for its take on the disillusioned youth of wealthy Los Angeles. We’d been around enough to know that rich kids always have the best…

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“I am the man who has best charted his inmost self.” Antonin Artaud quoted by Helen Weaver

Helen Weaver’s account of  her early days in Greenwich Village is misleadingly titled. Weaver, a new age author and translator nominated for a National Book Award in 1977 for her reading of Antonin Artaud,…

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Trumpeter Tomasz Stanko has always been celebrated for impressionism and atmospherics. But the point of his  moody, airy play was, like air itself, sometimes invisible. Not so on his latest recording Dark Eyes.  Stanko has framed his magnificently expressive play inside themes that give shape and weight to his music.…

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“…what exactly is produced as a difference attesting to the specific work of artistic images on the forms of social imagery?” Jacques Ranciere, The Future of the Image

The Rabbit found the first several stories in  The New Yorker‘s “20 Under 40″ fiction collection to be self-absorbed and lacking in…

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–“I saw the best minds of my generation….” Allen Ginsberg

According to Beat archivist Bill Morgan, the poet Gregory Corso — or maybe it was poet Gary Snyder as claimed by Beat chronicler Ann Charters — once said that three people (three or four, in Snyder’s quote) do not make a generation.…

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