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Jacob’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jacob’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jacob Wren
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The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information at Rosendal Teater (Trondheim, Norway)
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PME-ART are soon on our way to Norway to perform The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information at the Rosendal Teater on January 21, 2026. We have now been performing this work for fifteen years and it is always a pleasure to bring it to a new city.
A turntable and a pile of records. For each record we have at least one story at the ready. These stories have come from hearsay, internet research, books, Read more of this blog post »
PME-ART are soon on our way to Norway to perform The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information at the Rosendal Teater on January 21, 2026. We have now been performing this work for fifteen years and it is always a pleasure to bring it to a new city.
A turntable and a pile of records. For each record we have at least one story at the ready. These stories have come from hearsay, internet research, books, Read more of this blog post »
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Polyamorous Love Song
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2014
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Rich and Poor
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2016
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Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed
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2010
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
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2024
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Families are Formed Through Copulation
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2007
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If our wealth is criminal then let's live with the criminal joy of pirates
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2015
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Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART
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2018
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Unrehearsed Beauty
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The Coming Envelope: Issue 8
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Jacob’s Recent Updates
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"The Four Spent the Day Together is an incredible novel that initially appears far too ordinary for Chris Kraus.
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“If you find the Great American Irony Binge to be intolerable, start with an active extraction of those ironic elements that reside in your speech, your clothing, your living space. Speak vulnerably. Behave vulnerably. Live vulnerably. And know in advance that the vultures will aim their hunger at you. This is the nature of the thing. The vulture lacks the imagination to think about how it feels to be dismembered.”
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Three short passages from Eat the Document: * Each meeting always started with a demand that all cops and media identify themselves and be excused from the meeting. It seemed at first genuine, then a little self-aggrandizing, and finally, she realized, ...more |
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Three short passages from Eat the Document: * Each meeting always started with a demand that all cops and media identify themselves and be excused from the meeting. It seemed at first genuine, then a little self-aggrandizing, and finally, she realized, ...more |
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“If we make a union in these fields, is there anything we can do to ensure it doesn't become corrupt? Or that later it doesn't only look after the people who work here, we just look after our own, and everyone else can fend for themselves? We need to fight for ourselves, here and now, but we also need changes so large and impossible they encompass the entire world.”
― Rich and Poor
― Rich and Poor
“There is a difference between literature and just writing in your diary. I think perhaps the difference can be measured in degrees of pain. Hard work is also a factor. When I abandoned poetry there were so many questions lost to me as well. It remains astonishing to me the degree to which poetry has lost all value and meaning within the conditions of what I loosely refer to as corporate capitalism. Absolutely amazing.”
― Families are Formed Through Copulation
― Families are Formed Through Copulation
“And my theory about professional artists was as follows: artists are not necessarily the most creative or inspired individuals in any given community. Instead they are those individuals most willing to exploit their own creativity and inspiration, most willing to gain personal profit from their unconscious and its emanations, those with the most missionary zeal for the dissemination of their own idiosyncratic perspectives. Questions of pure creativity clearly lay elsewhere.”
― Polyamorous Love Song
― Polyamorous Love Song
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“My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.”
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“I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.”
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“People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“The right to pursue happiness sends me and other Americans, even here where we are meant to resist outside temptation, on a hunt for it. If I’m not hungry, I might seek other forms of happiness, or pleasure, which is part of my American birthright, though the most misconceived notion of them or the most difficult to realize; I can pursue several means and ways to be happy, if I am able to forget what makes me habitually sad.”
― American Genius
― American Genius
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Pamela
Jan 22, 2011 12:48PM
Hey Jacob...Thanks for accepting my friend request.
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Thanks for the friend request. It's great meeting fellow Montreal writers.
HI, Jacob :)Thanks for inviting me.. Nice to know you
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Thanks Jacob for inviting me :)Happy reading ;)
Jacob, thank you for befriending me. I like performance art. I'm interested in seeing what your work is like. You're definitely creative with your book titles! LOL
Hi Jacob,Thanks for befriending this fellow Goodreads author!
Thanks for adding me, Jacob. I see you're in Montreal, a city I visit frequently (and love) because my son lives there.
Thanks for the add. Jacob. I find your profile fascinating. I'll have to search out some of your books. I love works skewed towards performance art. Cheers.
