Monthly Archives: February 2009
Even Sontag Was 13 Years Old Once
Anne K. Yoder of The Millions blog recently reviewed Susan Sontag’s early journals, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963. I haven’t had a chance to pick up the book yet, but Yoder’s review, entitled “The Girl’s Guide to Becoming an Intellectual”, … Continue reading
Filed under Lit.
Conversation: Princeton
Jessica Milton was kind enough to talk to our favorite band from Eagle Rock, Ca. Topics covered include (but not limited to) chamber-pop, basketball, and Keynesian economics. By Jessica Milton My first introduction to Princeton came this past fall at … Continue reading
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The book of Broken Social Scene
Today begins the rest of the year after South by South West, and the steady supply of new music throughout the spring and summer, but one group is planning on releasing something other than music this spring as the phenom … Continue reading
Vol. 1 Brooklyn Story Series, Feb. 2009
Hexedjournal.com and Sadie Magazine Co-present Vol. 1 Feb 20th, 2009“Ex-Lovers” Five dollar suggested donation. All profits go to 826NYC Kimberlee Auerbach is a performer, teacher and author of The Devil, The Lovers & Me: My Life In Tarot (Dutton 8/07). … Continue reading
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The Fatwa’s Forgotten
This past Saturday marked, besides St. Hallmark’s Day, the 20th anniversary of the Rushdie affair during which Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued the most famous modern-day literary death sentence, a fatwa upon the head of British writer Salman Rushdie for his … Continue reading
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The Arrival of Kindle 2.0
The digital age of literature is being hurled at us with momentous force. Within two weeks, Washington Post’s Book World book review went online-only and a new, significantly improved, Amazon Kindle was unveiled yesterday. According to Business Week , Kindle … Continue reading
Pride, Prejudice, and Satire
I first got word of Seth Grahame-Smith’s upcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by way of the zombie horror genre “with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action” a few weeks ago. I … Continue reading
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Far Below Moscow, the Burden of Free Will
It’s fitting that Russia’s newest railway addition, an homage to Fyodor Dostoevsky, will be built 60 meters below the city where the writer was born, making it one of the deepest in Moscow. “[Dostoevsky] cannot restrain himself. Out it tumbles … Continue reading
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The "Death" of Book World
I’ve been trying to figure out why I don’t care about the impending death of print media. Once in awhile, out of casual guilt, I try to scan one of the multifarious articles on the subject but usually I only … Continue reading
