Monthly Archives: July 2009
Bites: Lord Byron knows what women want, (un)successful indie ventures, and Zoetrope in wine country
Hilarious found library books website Awful Library Books goes totally un-PC. Repeat after me: This is not funny, this is not funny, this is not funny. (…Yes, it’s hilarious.) Books bound in human skin? Literary cannibalism, or something. Critical Mass … Continue reading
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“Two tickets to a midnight execution”
I was totally cool that David Berman wanted to bow out of music at the top of his game to draw, then this week happened. First, Justin Taylor’s piece in the most recent issue of The Believer, and then stumbling … Continue reading
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Bites: The homosexual undertones of Harry Potter, Atlas Sound and Panda Bear destroy indie, Salman Rushdie and Thomas Pynchon eating dinner together
Gawker on “The Homosexual Undertones of Harry Potter“. Worth it just for the picture, and the line “Alan Rickman looks like a New Wave lesbian in a cape.” There should be a law against Atlas Sound and Panda Bear (of … Continue reading
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Bites: The Pope embraces dandyism, Gary Indiana, own a piece of Virginia Woolf history, indie supergroups, new bookstores, and more
First the Pope says Potter is alright, now the Vatican is cool with the king of the dandies, Oscar Wilde. Strange things are afoot in Rome. Gary Indiana picks songs that relate to his newest work, The Shanghai Gesture, on … Continue reading
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Dusting off: Studs Terkel interviewed for Stop Smiling
In which the interviewer becomes the interviewed. Windy City institutions Stop Smiling Magazine, and the late Studs Terkel sat down for a conversation that was included in the “Chicago” issue of the magazine. Topics discussed included; Saul Bellow calling Terkel … Continue reading
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Bites: Sea monsters are the new zombies!?!?!, The Pope and the Pot, Robert Sullivan on Thoreau, Jessica Hopper interviewed, and more
Sea monsters are not the new zombies. Come on! The Pope digs the Potter Robert Sullivan wrote a new book about Thoreau, and The Rumpus talked to him about it Joan Hiller-Depper interviewed Jessica Hopper about her new book The … Continue reading
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Oxford Collapse: A truncated history of abbreviated formats
Last summer, there was beer. I was interviewing Oxford Collapse at my apartment for a feature that would appear in an issue of Death+Taxes later that year. At the time of the interview, their fourth album, Bits, had not been … Continue reading
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Writers of Brooklyn, unite!
Our pal, Shane Dixon Kavanaugh from OVERFLOW Magazine recently sent this out. Very worth attending. Ladies & Gentlemen: Resolve yourself to drink this Thursday, in the company of staggering minds and familiar strangers. A few of the good folks over … Continue reading
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Bites: Free Camera Obscura mp3, McSweeneys wants you to eat pork and peanut butter, gay angels, Michael vs. Michael
It’s always good when Scottish twee bands get into the spirit of Bastille Day. In this case, Camera Obscura giving out a free mp3 of their song “French Navy”. Dennis Cooper (Maud Nelson says it’s a contributor to his blog?) … Continue reading
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