Monthly Archives: September 2009
Reviewed: Shoplifting From American Apparel by Tao Lin
Melville House (2009), 103 p. Reviewed by Tobias Carroll Let’s talk deadpan. If you’ve seen Tao Lin read, it’s likely you have a sense of where I’m going with this: there’s an affectless quality to his delivery in the live … Continue reading
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Bites: Beast Books, Nick Hornby, Zeitoun haikus, Palin’s ghostwriter, and more
Daily Beast innovator Tina Brown is, in a joint venture with Perseus Books Group, starting a new imprint called Beast Books. The imprint will forgo the typical publishing schedule, which is, as Brown sees it, an untimely process that misses … Continue reading
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Passionate Amateurs and Flailing Limbs: A Review of BAM’s “In-I”
To be fair, I am not a theater critic. Juliette Binoche, then again, isn’t really a dancer. Continue reading
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Carry on Brooklyn: Illustrated Missed Connections
In one of the most creative–and free–outlets of artistic energy I’ve seen in a while, Illustrated Craigslist Missed Connections: The Blog. Oh, yes. Carry on, Brooklyn. (Artist Sophie Blackall)
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Roman Polanski: Unwanted & Undesirable
By Matthew Caron Roman Polanski was arrested yesterday in Switzerland and faces a likely extradition back to the United States after fleeing from sentencing at the conclusion of a rape trial in Los Angeles that lasted from the spring of’77 … Continue reading
Bites: The last days of a punk poet, King Dork banned?, the Dickens Question, Chicago Olympics, Park Slope protest, more
The New York Times on the last days of Jim Carroll. Lit. Frank Portman’s King Dork: future banned book? Every now and then, we just have to re-bring up the question “Why are we still reading Dickens?” (The Rumpus reminded … Continue reading
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Reviewed: Boston Noir, Edited by Dennis Lehane
Akashic Books, 207 Pages by Matthew Caron Boston Noir is the most recent entry in the expansive Akashic Noir Series, which anthologizes regional crime fiction by bundling together short works from best-selling authors with lesser-knowns and setting each story in … Continue reading
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Bites: Russian chess, Franzen is #1, Murakami interviews, craziest town hall EVER, and more
Yeh, how did Russians get so good at chess? HTML Giant: Mazel tov on turning one year old. Lit. Jonathan Franzen is #1!!! (The Millions) An interview with Haruki Murakami Boston Globe takes a look at “gangster chic“ The Moby … Continue reading
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