Monthly Archives: May 2010
Ayn Rand Plugs the BP Oil Spill/Black Metal Burning Down Westboro
There are two Facebook groups that I’m 100% behind: 1. Plugging the Gulf oil leak with the works of Ayn Rand. 2. Petition to have Varg Vikernes burn down Westboro Baptist Church.
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Intellectuals Choose the Chicago Blackhawks
I didn’t think that I’d read the best Stanley Cup preview at N+1, but I’m not really surprised either.
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Music Notes: Neil Young, Woods, Health and Crushed Butler
1. The question isn’t if Woods have put out the best album of the summer, it’s whether At Echo Lake is the best album to bubble up out of the Brooklyn underground this year. It’s really hard to say, and … Continue reading
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Is Graydon Carter Discussing Martin Amis a W.A.S.P. Wet Dream?
Graydon talks about people missing the “funny” Martin Amis at the New York Times podcast.
Filed under Lit.
Somebody Please Tell Garrison Keillor to Shush His Mouth
Seriously, could somebody just pull Garrison Keillor’s jowls over his mouth and shut him up? First he goes and disses Jews who wrote Christmas songs, then he goes and blabbers on about the publishing industry being dead: “Self-publishing will destroy … Continue reading
The Best way to Read Richard Yates Before Anybody Else…
Be the first on your block to read Tao Lin’s forthcoming novel, Richard Yates, so you can say that you: A. Loved it before everybody else did. B. Got over it before everybody else did. C. Hated it before everybody … Continue reading
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Excerpt: From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry by Justin Pearson
Nine times out of ten, rock n’ roll memoirs are terrible, but that’s usually because they’re written by washed up one-hit wonders. From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry (Soft Skull) was written by a musician who is anything but … Continue reading
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Everyday Genius and Me
Rozalia Jovanovic, co-founding editor of Gigantic, and woman with 100 other cool things attached to her name, asked me to participate in the latest Everyday Genius project, “Manuel for a Productive Everyday Life.” I’m in some good company with names … Continue reading
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Bohemian, Bloomsbury, Berlin?
N+1 reviews three novels that all share Berlin as a hometown. Behind office buildings on side streets in Mitte, the grassy path of the divided city’s death strip—the stretch of empty land studded with menacing watch towers between the wall’s … Continue reading
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