[ Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters , "Chameleon", 1973] [ Roy Hargrove & RH Factor , "Riff," live 2005] [ Fr...

[ Caspar David Friedrich , Greifswald in Moonlight , 1816/17] [Three by Teofilo Olivieri ] [Two by Graham Franciose ] Fall is here at last i...

Today the lobster and the canary enjoyed the fifth annual Brooklyn Book Festival , undeterred by a mizzle of rain. Was good to talk with the...

[ Jocelyn Hobbie , Pilgrim ] [ TM Davy , untitled] [ Louise Despont , moonface & his carrier birds ] [ Dante Horoiwa , Distracted, We...

[ Herbie Hancock , The Imagine Project , released June 21, 2010.] Herbie Hancock does it again, finding the beauty and strength in our diffe...

In the midst of worries about the future of fiction in a digital age, literature (still) matters enough that Jonathan Franzen made the cove...

Lobster & Canary happily subscribe to Sybil's Garage (from Senses Five Press) and to Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (from S...

[ Lady Gaga on the cover of Rolling Stone , issue 1108/1109, July 8-22, 2010] [A montage of works by Hannah Hoch ] [ Hugo Ball , in costume...

"Wake Up," by The Arcade Fire (2007); a theme song for the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers film of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Th...

[ Saltillo , "Remember Me," from Ganglion , released 2006] Heat inescapable...canary seeks shade in a sycamore...lobster offers co...

[ The Talking Heads , "Television Man," from Little Creatures , 1985] Wake up Canary, wake up! Dawn is upon us, words there are t...

We adore Alastair Reynolds . Out last month in U.S. paperback from Ace is his House of Suns , another one of his love stories wrapped insid...

Natalie Merchant puts poems to music on her new album (released in April this year). See the PBS video above. Canary especially likes Mer...

[Terje Rypdal, from Odyssey , 1975] John Brunner 's The Traveler in Black (1971) is a quiet, unsung gem. I revisited it recently, havi...

[Jacky Terrasson and friends] * Lobster at the lectern: Christopher Beha (an editor at Harper's ) in the current issue of BookFor...

[Regina Carter, "Pavane," from her album Paganini-After a Dream , 2003] Across the Hudson, mist like the film attaching to the ins...

[Ellen Wiener, "Moon & Lillies (Vespers)," painted 1999] The lobster, with canary riding on his carapace, is delighted to pres...

[Eberhard Weber, "Touch," from Yellow Fields ] Deborah A. Mills, an artist walking along the promenade on the lower Hudson, captur...

[DJ Krush & Shinichi Kinoshita, "Beyond Raging Waves"} Last week a Giant Oarfish, also known as the King of the Herrings, wash...

[Heitor Villa-Lobos, Magnificat-Alleluia ] Happy Mother's Day from the lobster and the canary.

[Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and Bust , sold via Christies last week for an all-time record $106.5 million for an individual art piece....

[ Sixtoo , Jackals and Vipers in Envy of Man, Parts 2 & 4 , released 2007] Spring, with muggy airs and green, sprang over us this week.....

May Day is here at last...the Queen and her court rouse themselves from sleep...hear the drums, the deep-lute strumming...with roses in her ...

Lobster and canary are members of the Working Group for the Interstitial Arts Foundation. The IAF just issued a very interesting call for ...