Monthly Archives: June 2010
Tonight: Chicago vs. Brooklyn at BookThugNation
Tobias Carroll lives in Brooklyn, and has covered music and books for a number of publications, and his fiction has appeared in THE2NDHAND, 3:AM, Word Riot, and as part of Featherproof Books’ “Light Reading” series. He is presently working on … Continue reading
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Franz Nicolay Hips World and Publisher (Me) as to What’s Next
Over at Largehearted Boy, Mr. Nicolay discusses the future, and I get excited. Karan Kanan Correa: What can we expect from the next set of stories? Please no more pigeons. Franz Nicolay: How do you feel about magicians? And moose? … Continue reading
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Rob Lowe: I Hope Your Memoir is Only About The Outsiders and Your Sex Tape
Also, I was going to say I thought you were funny in There’s Something About Mary, but then I realized that wasn’t you. This week, it was announced that two Hollywood memoirs will hit the stands in 2011. While we … Continue reading
John Brandon Looks Like a Badass Dude
A copy of Citrus County has been getting passed around to Vol. 1 contributors for the last few weeks. We all like it, and wanted to hear more from John Brandon. We had our wish answered as The Rumpus did … Continue reading
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Russian Spies Just Aren’t Interesting Anymore
This is cool: Criminal complaints filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Monday read like an old-fashioned cold war thriller: Spies swapping identical orange bags as they brushed past each other in a train station stairway. An identity borrowed … Continue reading
Is Martin Amis the new Justin Bieber?
Martin Amis is blowing up on Twitter right at this very moment. He’s so hot right now.
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Music Notes: James Blackshaw, Effi Briest and Panda Bear
James Blackshaw’s All is Failing I get so much pleasure out of listening to new James Blackshaw releases and watching Blackshaw grow with each passing release. After listening to his last album, The Glass Bead Game, I admit that I … Continue reading
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Things I Like About This Week’s New Yorker
1. Bastard Noise gets a shout out. This gives all my high school crust punk fantasies some validation. 2. The Imperial Bedrooms review is tiny. So tiny that I am led to believe there is nothing good to gain from … Continue reading
You had me at the Glenn Danzig/King Diamond Poem
Craig Sernotti really likes playing with the phrase “shaved off my dick.” That’s one of the things I found most interesting about his first collection of poetry, Forked Tongue (Blue Room Publishing). This is confessional poetry in the truest sense, … Continue reading
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“The main branch of the New York Public Library is a wonderful place for pretending to make progress.”
“Diary of an Unemployed Class of ’10 Philosophy Major in New York City, Part 2″ (Via The Awl)
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