Weekend Bites: Dave Eggers is like John Wayne but with a pen, Raymond Carver, Jon Ronson, Bjork and Barney kaput?, Hornby hearts LHB, and more. – Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Weekend Bites: Dave Eggers is like John Wayne but with a pen, Raymond Carver, Jon Ronson, Bjork and Barney kaput?, Hornby hearts LHB, and more.

September 6, 2009
by Jason Diamond No Comments

Three Guys One Book: “Where have all the cowboys gone? Has literature isolated itself from a bigger cultural context?” Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, Dennis Johnson, Gary Shteyngart, and the New York Times bestsellers of 1943 all make cameos.

Jacket Copy asks: “How much of (Raymond) Carver’s “minimalist” style was a byproduct of (Gordon) Lish’s editing?” This 1997 New Yorker article provided as reference, and this review of the Library of America release of “Raymond Carter: Collected Stories” might shed sufficient light.

I became slightly obsessed with Jon Ronson through his contributions on This American Life, and get pretty excited when I see he has something up at The Guardian. His latest is about contributing to the long-running British comic, The Beano.

Bjork and Barney: Kaput?

Oh, look at that, Nick Hornby likes Largehearted Boy. I know this all because of the piece he wrote on music blogs.

January Magazine on the 75th birthday of Leonard Cohen

Bjork Dave Eggers Gary Shteyngart Jacket Copy Jon Ronson largehearted boy Leonard Cohen matthew barney Nick Hornby raymond carver this american life Zadie Smith

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