Monthly Archives: November 2010

Watch Jonathan Franzen Look Homeless and Talk About The Mekons

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Gatsby Goes Hip Hop

  Posted by Jason Diamond This could be bigger than literary heavy metal.

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Tonight: Vol. 1 Brooklyn Monthly Reading Series With Justin Taylor, Fiona Maazel, Justin Maurer and Deenah Vollmer

The monthly Vol.1 Brooklyn Reading Series makes its return with four fantastic writers at a new venue: Brooklyn Winery in Williamsburg. Starting tonight at 7 PM, we present: Justin Taylor, whose “Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever” was one … Continue reading

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Reviewed: First Year: an mlp anthology

First Year: an mlp anthology J.A. Tyler, editor Mud Luscious Press, 298 p. review by Tobias Carroll The work of forty-four writers is contained in this anthology, the first collection of Mud Luscious Press’s series of chapbooks. The scope is … Continue reading

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Sunday Stories: Insanity & the Russian Doll Conundrum

  Insanity & the Russian Doll Conundrum An excerpt from Doctor, I Don’t Wanna Be Crazy Anymore by Justin Maurer Good afternoon, Doctor, nice to see you too.  How am I doing?  Well, last night I watched the film American … Continue reading

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Weekend Bites: Syd Barrett Biography, Nora Ephron, Fox News Reliable Source, Shteyngart + Moody And More

At Boston Globe: Talking about a new a new Syd Barrett biography. At The New York Times: Nora Ephron is the 69-year-old that I’d most like to hang out with. At The Guardian: Christopher Hitchens may have cancer, but he … Continue reading

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A Brooklyn Douchebag in Twain’s Connecticut

Posted by Jason Diamond Last week somebody actually told me that “Mark Twain is so hot right now.”  While I’m just like everybody else who has been waiting nearly a decade to hear one of America’s greatest writers meet Zoolander, … Continue reading

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Bono gets all Literary About the Spider-Man Musical

Posted by Jason Diamond Bono likes to drop names from his expensive book/art collection when he’s talking about his really expensive musical: “We’re wrestling with the same stuff as Rilke, Blake, ‘Wings of Desire,’ Roy Lichtenstein, the Ramones — the … Continue reading

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…And Philip Roth is on Leonard Lopate

Posted by Juliet Linderman NPR is really killing it today. Right now, Leonard Lopate is choppin’ it up with Philip Roth about his latest novel Nemesis.

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Brian Lehrer on the Future of Publishing

Posted by Juliet Linderman If you guys are in a place with radio or the ability to listen to radio on the internet tune in right now to listen to WNYC fave Brian Lehrer talk to a few really brilliant bookish dudes (including … Continue reading

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