McGlue is a 2014 novella by Ottessa Moshfegh . It was Moshfegh's debut. Originally published by Fence Books , it was reissued by Penguin Books in 2019.
34-427: In an interview with The White Review , Moshfegh talked about her experience with writing McGlue : " McGlue was really a creative act of writing through spiritual possession. I mean, I wasn’t intellectualizing, I wasn’t thinking about plot. McGlue came out of me like some magical demon. And when that was over it was like, ‘Oh, thank God.’ In 1851, McGlue, an American sailor, wakes up to find himself chained down in
68-742: A memorial in Tiergarten park in Berlin, in memory of the gay victims of the Nazi regime, which was unveiled in May 2008. Several of their sculptures are now permanently installed for the public including their commission for the Fourth plinth , now outside the Arken Museum of Modern Art ; Prada Marfa (2005), on the U.S. Highway 90 in Texas ; Dilemma , a site-specific sculpture of
102-441: A British-based equivalent to publications including n+1 , Guernica , Cabinet , The Paris Review and Bomb , while an early interview with It's Nice That quoted them as saying that the magazine would endeavour to "stay close to new writing and emerging art". After 20 print issues, The White Review ' s print iteration and website were redesigned, and a new editorial team, led by Francesca Wade and Željka Marošević,
136-760: A boy on a high diving board overlooking a fjord on the outskirts of Oslo and Han , a polished steel sculpture of a young man on a rock located in the centre of the harbor in Helsingør , Denmark . Han was installed in 2012 and is based on Edvard Eriksen 's famous The Little Mermaid (statue) . The figure sits in a similar pose, challenging conventional portrayals of masculinity. In 2012 Elmgreen & Dragset were also selected for London's Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square, where they created Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 . Since then, Elmgreen & Dragset have realized: Van Gogh's Ear Archived 2020-08-10 at
170-459: A theatre play about 20th-century art history with six remote-controlled versions of iconic sculptures, for Skulptur Projekte Münster . During the 2008 Frieze Art Fair, they staged Drama Queens , this time enlivened by the voices of leading stage stars such as Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes , at The Old Vic in London. In 2019, Dragset was a member of the jury that chose Lawrence Abu Hamdan for
204-539: A writer resident in the UK and Ireland who has yet to secure a publishing deal. The winner will also be published in a print issue of The White Review . Many winners and shortlisted writers have since published novels and become acclaimed. The White Review Poet's Prize was introduced in 2017, and was launched to recognise and celebrate English-language poets who are at the crucial stage of creating their debut pamphlet or collection, and to encourage poetry that explores and expands
238-466: Is frequently updated with new web-only content and excerpts from the print edition. The website, like the print edition, carries essays, interviews, poetry and fiction. In an interview with Creative Review , the founding editors stated that The White Review was intended as "a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre". Talking to US-based magazine Bookforum , they explained that they were inspired to establish
272-526: Is replaced by agonizing withdrawals. Awaiting trial in Salem, McGlue recalls the history of his friendship with Johnson and gradually recalls the events of the night he supposedly murdered him. A review in the Los Angeles Review of Books wrote, "Ottessa Moshfegh’s first novel reads like the swashbuckled spray of a slit throat — immediate, visceral, frank, unforgiving, violent, and grotesquely beautiful." It
306-436: Is the story of one man’s pursuit of self-destruction and his friend who drowns in his wake, brilliantly and desperately conveyed. Written in a style at once intoxicating and intoxicated, McGlue is a fierce and sodden historical novel that pulls nary a punch.” The White Review The White Review is a London-based magazine on literature and the visual arts. It is published in print and online. The White Review
340-697: The East End of London . In 2019, Elmgreen & Dragset held their first major solo exhibition in the United States: “Sculptures” at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. Later that year, they installed a new public sculpture, “Bent Pool” , located in Miami Beach's Pride Park, which takes the shape of a large swimming pool arching backwards to form an inverted U shape. In Finland, the artist duo transformed
374-753: The Wayback Machine , first presented by Public Art Fund at the Rockefeller Center in 2016 and since exhibited with K11 Musea in Hong Kong and Wuhan; Bent Pool (2019) in Pride Park, Miami Beach; The Hive (2020), welcoming visitors to Moynihan Train Hall in Penn Station, New York; and most recently, Life Rings at Royal Djurgården , Stockholm (2021). In 2007, Elmgreen & Dragset developed Drama Queens ,
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#1732852183281408-581: The 31st Street Mid-block Entrance Hall in New York City . The following year, The Princess Estelle Cultural Foundation invited Elmgreen & Dragset to create a public sculpture for the Royal Djurgården Parks in Stockholm. “Life Rings” , a towering sculpture made up of interlocking, stainless steel life rings, now stands at 7.5 meters (25 ft) high by the waterside of the public park. In 2021,
442-1036: The Arts Council England and broader macroeconomic hardship. Each issue of the journal includes long-form interviews with writers and artists. Notable interview subjects have included Annie Ernaux , Margo Jefferson , Jenny Offill , Claudia Rankine , Elmgreen and Dragset , George Saunders , Michael Hardt , Tom McCarthy , Paula Rego , Hari Kunzru , André Schiffrin , Will Self , Marina Warner , Chris Kraus , Sophie Calle , Deborah Levy , Rachel Cusk , and Richard Wentworth . The website has also carried interviews with David Graeber , Jonathan Safran Foer , DBC Pierre , Cornelia Parker , Wayne Koestenbaum , and others. Notable contributors have included Ned Beauman , Joshua Cohen , John Ashbery , Chris Kraus , Lee Rourke , Anne Carson , Sally Rooney , Hatty Nestor , Leslie Jamison , China Miéville , Alice Oswald , Dorothea Lasky , Adam Thirlwell , and Laszlo Krasznahorkai . In 2013, The White Review Short Story Prize
476-472: The UK, “This is How We Bite Our Tongue” was held at the Whitechapel Gallery , London, in 2018. The exhibition consisted of a large-scale site-specific installation and a survey of their sculptural works. The Whitechapel Pool , realised specifically for the show, transformed the ground floor of the gallery into an abandoned public swimming pool fictionally dated to 1901 and related to the gentrification of
510-618: The artists also received the 14th Robert Jacobsen Prize from the Würth Foundation, in Künzelsau , Germany. To celebrate the award a solo exhibition was held at the collection's Würth Museum 2 in Künzelsau. More recently, Elmgreen & Dragset's extensive exhibition “Useless Bodies?” was held at Fondazione Prada in Milan through Spring and Summer of 2022. Spanning more than 3,000 square meters,
544-503: The artists have presented a great number of architectural and sculptural installations in an ongoing series of works entitled 'Powerless Structures' in which they transformed the conventions of the 'white cube' gallery space, creating galleries suspended from the ceiling, sunk into the ground or turned upside down. For the Istanbul Biennial in 2001, they constructed a full-scale model of a typical Modernist Kunsthalle descending into
578-517: The exhibition drew focus to the status of the human body in today's digitally saturated, post-industrial world, looking at our working conditions, living modes and the health and leisure industries. In winter 2022, the artist duo will open their forthcoming exhibition “After Dark” at By Art Matters Museum in Hangzhou , China. In 2003, Elmgreen & Dragset won the German Government's competition for
612-642: The former textile galleries of the V & A Museum into the grand family home of fictional architect Norman Swann. Their exhibition series “Biography” took place in 2014–2015 at the Astrup Fearnley Museet , Oslo and the SMK– National Gallery of Denmark , Copenhagen. In 2015 their exhibition “Aéroport Mille Plateaux” turned the PLATEAU Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul into an airport inspired by
646-749: The ground while located outdoors among ancient ruins. Their work has also been shown in the Berlin, Istanbul, Liverpool, Moscow, São Paulo, Singapore, Gwangju Biennials. Further exhibitions include transforming the Bohen Foundation in New York into a 13th Street Subway Station in 2004; their best-known project Prada Marfa , a Prada boutique inaugurated in 2005 and sited in the middle of the Texan desert; and their exhibition The Welfare Show in 2005–2006 at Serpentine Gallery , London / The Power Plant , Toronto / Bergen Kunsthall, Norway / BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, which
680-444: The hold of the boat he works on. He is too drunk to remember what happened, but everyone is saying he murdered his shipmate, Johnson. This doesn't make sense to McGlue, who considered Johnson his friend, and has no memory of killing him. However, McGlue's history of alcohol abuse, violence, and a traumatic head injury leave him uncertain about what happened. As the ship completes its route back to Salem, Massachusetts, McGlue's inebriation
714-568: The ideas of philosopher Gilles Deleuze . For their solo exhibition “The Well Fair” in 2016, the duo transformed the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing into a fictional art fair. Also in 2016, the artists installed Van Gogh's Ear at Rockefeller Center in New York; the 9-meter (30-foot) high, empty swimming pool stands upright on its shortest side. The artists’ first major overview in
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#1732852183281748-569: The possibilities of the page-poetry form. The 2013 inaugural prize was awarded on 25 April 2013. The judges were Deborah Levy , Jonathan Cape editorial director Alex Bowler and literary agent Karolina Sutton . The 2014 prize was awarded on 30 April 2014. The judges were Kevin Barry , Max Porter and literary agent Anna Webber . The 2015 prize was awarded on 30 April 2015. The judges were Ned Beauman , literary agent Lucy Luck and Serpent's Tail publisher Hannah Westland . The 2016 prize
782-489: The premises of EMMA – Espoo Museum of Art , into a surreal carpark environment for their exhibition “2020” , which coincided with the 25th year of Elmgreen & Dragset's collaboration. Later that year, “The Hive” was inaugurated at the new Moynihan Hall Train Hall in Penn Station , New York. Suspended from the ceiling, “The Hive” is an upside-down, fictional cityscape illuminated by lights that will hang permanently above
816-494: Was also introduced in 2017, and was launched to recognise and celebrate English-language poets who are at the crucial stage of creating their debut pamphlet or collection, and to encourage poetry that explores and expands the possibilities of the page-poetry form. The 2017 judges were Kayo Chingonyi , Vahni Capildeo and Penguin Books editor Donald Futers . The poetry winner was awarded on 7 December 2017. The 2018 Short Story Prize
850-599: Was awarded on 17 May 2018. The judges were Chloe Aridjis , Sam Byers , Daunt books publisher Želkja Marošević , Granta editor Anne Meadows and literary agent Sophie Scard . The 2018 Poetry judges were Kayo Chingonyi , Anne Boyer and Lavinia Greenlaw . The poetry winner was awarded on 6 December 2018. The 2019 Short Story Prize was awarded on 25 April 2019. The judges were Chris Power , literary agent Sophie Scard , and Jonathan Cape publishing director Michal Shavit . The 2019 poetry judges were Kayo Chingonyi , Rachel Allen and Ariana Reines . The poetry winner
884-602: Was awarded on 21 April 2016. The judges were Eimear McBride , literary agent Imogen Pelham and Hamish Hamilton publisher Simon Prosser . The 2017 Short Story Prize was awarded to both a UK and Ireland winner, as well as a US and Canada winner, with two respective shortlists and judging panels. The UK and Ireland judges were Jon Day , Joe Dunthorne and Faber and Faber publisher Mitzi Angel . The US and Canada judges were Hari Kunzru , literary agent Anna Stein and New Directions publisher Barbara Epler . Both winners were awarded in May 2017. The White Review Poet's Prize
918-630: Was awarded on 5 December 2019. Elmgreen and Dragset Michael Elmgreen (born 1961; Copenhagen , Denmark ) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969; Trondheim , Norway) have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. Their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design. Elmgreen & Dragset live and work in Berlin . They are known for art work that has wit and subversive humour, and also addresses social and cultural concerns. The duo met in Copenhagen in 1994, when Michael Elmgreen, who
952-441: Was born in the city in 1961, was writing and performing poetry, and Ingar Dragset, a Norwegian born in 1969, was studying theatre. They started collaborating in 1995 and moved to Berlin in 1997. In 2006, they bought a large 1000m former water-pumping station dating to 1924 in Berlin's Neukölln borough from the city and converted it into a studio. In 2008, Elmgreen moved to London, and in 2015, he moved back to Berlin. Since 1997,
986-604: Was chosen as the winner of the Fourth Plinth Commission to be displayed on the Fourth plinth of London's Trafalgar Square . Their bronze sculpture of a boy astride a rocking horse questions the tradition for war monuments to celebrate either victory or defeat. The work is now permanently installed outside the Arken Museum of Modern Art . In 2013, they curated an extensive public art program in Munich entitled “A Space Called Public/Hoffentlich Öffentlich” and transformed
1020-627: Was critically acclaimed. For the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 they curated the exhibition The Collectors in the neighbouring Danish and Nordic Pavilions (which include Norway, Sweden, and Denmark), an unprecedented merging of two international exhibition venues. For their show, they invited fellow artists Maurizio Cattelan , Tom of Finland , Han & Him, Laura Horelli, William E. Jones, Terence Koh , Klara Lidén , Jonathan Monk , Nico Muhly, Norway Says, Vibeke Slyngstad, Thora Dolven Balke, Nina Saunders, and Wolfgang Tillmans , among others. In 2011, their sculpture Powerless Structures, Fig. 101
1054-529: Was founded by editors Benjamin Eastham and Jacques Testard, and released its first issue in print in February 2011. The quarterly print edition was originally designed Ray O'Meara, and carries poetry, short fiction, essays and interviews alongside photography and art. Since 2013 and 2017 The White Review has administered the influential The White Review Short Story and Poetry Prize respectively. The White Review website
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1088-417: Was introduced. Following a successful crowdfunding campaign, and in response to the paucity of space for arts and literature criticism in UK publications, The White Review began publishing book and art show reviews on its website in 2017. In September 2023, The White Review announced that it would be "ceasing its day-to-day publishing" and undergoing an indefinite hiatus, citing the removal of funding from
1122-407: Was launched to find and foster new British and Irish writing talent. It is an annual short story competition for emerging writers who "explore and expand the possibilities of the short story form ... the prize was founded to reward ambitious, imaginative and innovative approaches to creative writing." The prize is supported by Jerwood Foundation and awards £2500 to the best piece of short fiction by
1156-484: Was selected by Rivka Galchen as the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose. Discussing her choice, Galchen said this of McGlue , "A sextant of the psyche, McGlue works its grand knowing through the mouthfeel of language; it’s a sharply intelligent, beautiful, and singular novel. A scion of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Raymond Carver at once, Moshfegh transforms a poison into an intoxicant.” Novelist Brian Evenson said, "Here
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