Monthly Archives: June 2009
"What came first? The music or the misery?
Rob Gordon in High Fidelity (book or film, you pick) was onto the right idea with the above quote, but I like to ask: What came first, the writer or the music they listened to? Did the down-and-out junkie poetry … Continue reading
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Bites: Another Hemingway and another edit, literary threesomes, Fleet Foxes, we are all Woody Allen
How many more of Hemingway’s relations are going to edit A Moveable Feast? Fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo, whose work with his wife Isabel is currently on display at The Museum at FIT, has redesigned the front flaps of three Penguin … Continue reading
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There are maybe five geniuses left on the planet…
Adira Amram is probably one of them. So do what she asks of you in this video invite provided.
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Tranformers 3 plot announced
“It’s going to be tough to get fans of the book and representatives of the Fitzgerald estate behind the idea of putting robots in this movie” – “Storyboards from Michael Bay’s The Great Gatsby” (from Cracked.com)
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Bishop Allen might make you swoon
Seriously, could Bishop Allen be any less “indie darling” (see soundtrack for Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist)? Now they have a video for their song “Shanghaied”, starring a bunny rabbit, and member Justin Rice is set to star in a … Continue reading
Bites: The only good Michael Jackson tribute, Philp Roth the new king of pop, visualizing Bolano, and more
And the best tribute to the late Michael Jackson goes to…WFMU! Philip Roth, the dance single “Thirteen microfilm reels of Nabokov’s now-public papers at the Library of Congress include notes on Lolita.” (From Maud Nelson) NPR says that non-fiction can … Continue reading
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On Being an Insufferable Snob
Sonia Chung for The Millions recently elaborated on her “insufferable snobbery” when it comes to such literary topics as genre fiction, of which she herself finds them insufferable. She laments the cultural taboo of literary snobbery, citing last week’s profile … Continue reading
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Bites: John David California, Peter Terzian, Jeff Buckley oral history, St. Vincent in a graveyard,
In an interview with The Village Voice, Frederick Colting, aka John David California, appears a little too innocent. The writer, who is being sued by J.D. Salinger, claims his novel is a modern-day Frankenstein. Colting doesn’t further elaborate as to … Continue reading
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