Monthly Archives: January 2009
Indulging in Literary Spirits
What’s with various print media developing food and drink equivalents to literary writers, books, and characters? New Yorker’s The Book Bench and The Guardian’s BooksBlog do it. Every week, Lit Spirits, a weekly feature for Book Bench, employs their “resident … Continue reading
Conversations: The Desk Set
If Animal Farm were based on Animal House, this punk house in Madison would be the result: a group of ten or so mostly drunken University of Wisconsin students living and thriving in a communal environment, getting hammered, listening to … Continue reading
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Conversation: Franz Nicolay
It seems safe to say that The Hold Steady are the greatest American rock n’ roll band right now. Craig Finn and his Springsteen-esque observations on the punks and fuck-ups are a third of the holy trinity of rock scribes, … Continue reading
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