Monthly Archives: January 2011
On Being Susan Sontag’s Assistant
So I get this phone call from Ellie, who’s gotten a call from Jim, who says his friend, a writer, is looking for an assistant. Ellie asks, “Do you think you’d be interested in working for Susan Sontag?” I’d recently … Continue reading
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Deckfight Gets Into the E-Publishing Business
Posted by Jason Diamond Our favorite son of the South, Josh Spilker, has turned it up a notch over at Deckfight, and started a new indie press. Josh will be publishing e-chapbooks and is asking for donations of whatever you … Continue reading
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Band Booking: Woven Bones
Posted by Tobias Carroll Originally based in Austin, Woven Bones play a fuzzed-out, bliss-inducing strain of rock music that owes as much to stripped-down garage and punk as it does to the wider sonic scopes of groups like Spacemen 3 … Continue reading
Bites: Midwestern Books, Deb Olin Unferth Deuce, Céline and More
Midwestern books of the Americanas. (Via) Dueling Deb Olin Unferth interviews at The Rumpus and HTMLGIANT. Céline: Great writer, total scumbag. The Awl takes a look at how the Egyptian revolution could die. Hillary isn’t taking sides. Director Gregg Araki … Continue reading
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Sunday Stories: Revolution Come and Gone
Revolution Come and Gone by Tobias Carroll Timon met Marianne at a Black Halos show in Seattle. It wasn’t the colder season yet, but its arrival was obvious. Jackets and a few bold scarves could be seen on bodies on … Continue reading
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Weekend Bites: Ayn Rand’s Medicare Payments, Kafka’s Makeover, Nick Kroll and More
Ayn Rand received Social Security and Medicare payments under a false name. Rand “despised government interference and felt that people should and could live independently… She didn’t feel that an individual should take help.” Kafka gets a makeover. A Stranger … Continue reading
I Can’t Believe it’s Not AWP
Posted by Jason Diamond The fantastic Melissa Broder has a party going on this Sunday, and I’ll be there as the Vol. 1 representative.
Indexing: Dennis Cooper, Largehearted Boy, Sara Marcus, The Wipers
Nick Curley My house was robbed moments after last week’s Indexing was published, and my, what an amusing week of not-reading things on my not-laptop! It’s incredible how much non-reading you can get done in the information age when you’re … Continue reading
Dick Watching: Of Whales…in Teeth
Posted by Juliet Linderman Greetings and salutations Dicksters, and welcome to this week’s watery wonderland of whale-related mimsy and lore. Let’s begin!
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