Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite
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Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite (born 1963) is a novelist, spoken word artist, dub poet, essayist, digital drummer and short fiction writer.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he has been called “one of the outstanding Canadian prose writers alive” (Gail Scott) and linked to the "New Narrative" movement[1], a term coined by Steve Abbott.[2]. Author of the legendary cult novel Wigger,[3]
Braithwaite's work has been praised by Dodie Bellamy for its "sublime impenetrability".[4] and is fueled by a modernist and Fredric Jameson-influenced late modernist approach to writing and recording. His work draws influences from the musical and social realism of punk rock, opera, musique concrète, noise, hip hop, rap, industrial, black metal, country music and dub.
Braithwaite utilizes the intensity of the New York City No Wave scene and the Los Angeles and Montreal hardcore punk music subcultures to compose his narrative.
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[edit] Bibliography
- Wigger (1995) ISBN 1-55152-020-6
- Ratz Are Nice: PSP (2000) ISBN 1-55583-554-6
- Speed, thrash, death: Alamo, B. C. (with illustrations by Krista E. McLean & Max)
- More at 7:30 (Notes from New Palestine)
[edit] Works also appear in:
- Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art
- Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian's Mirage #4/Period(ical)
- Bluesprints: Anthology of Black British Columbian Literature and Orature *Redzone zine,
- Of the Flesh: Dangerous Fiction
- "Vanilla Primitive".[2] in the e-journal Sleepy Brain
- Nocturnes 3 Review of the Literary Arts 2005
- Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative
- Sidebrow e-journal.[3]
- New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills.[4]
- The World Crisis Web (ed. Danny Dayus) Revolution is Bloody
- Black Ice. [5]
- The Rain Review of Books[6]
[edit] Recordings
- Logopolis with The Killing Flaw
- Good Violence. D.U.N.
- How fast Does Light travel (for George Scott 3rd, James Chance and Lil G).[7]
- Olivet (H.A.T.s in the Square) (featuring Intifada Al Ard).[8]
- Unnerstated (Downpressin) from Hurricane Angel "Luckily I Was Half Cat"
- En Fins (Clichy Sous Bois) with Tolan McNeil (AKA The Giver).[9]
- London bomb sensation (hoffman sub dub the samo samo) lord patch vs david patrick
- Unnerstated (acapella) in Sean Lennon's Upstart Radio in Mindwalk 31: Driving to Baghdad
- En Fins (Clichy Sous Bois) in Mindwalk 42: Henry, Ann Coulter & the FCC.[10]
- Just A Sect For Whiteboys In Afrika
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Gail Scott, “In the Future, Where Prose is Going”, Matrix 62: a special issue on New Narrative edited by Gail Scott and Corey Frost.
- ^ Aleander Lawrence's Free Williamsburg interview with Dennis Cooper
- ^ Lawrence Chua's PlanetOut review of Ratz Are Nice (PSP)
- ^ Dodie Bellamy, "Body Language", Academonia (San Francisco: Krupskaya, 2006): page 82; available online in Fascicle 2 (Winter 2005-2006) [1]
[edit] External links
- Information about Braithwaite
- London bomb sensation (hoffman sub dub the samo samo)
- They wanna make my people unreal
- Notes from new Palestine: oh gracious Israel the aggressive violence of the oppressor
- Notes from new Palestine: revolutionary suicidal tendencies (the war brought home)
- Publisher's interview with Braithwaite
- "The Black Gangster as Urban Resistance: A Review of Sam Greenlee, The Spook Who Sat By the Door" by Braithwaite
