Monthly Archives: January 2011
Buying Barthelme for Charity
Posted by Jason Diamond Maybe you’ve got The Dead Father sitting on your bookshelf, but do you have an excerpt from it with an afterword by Rick Moody in a beautifully designed pocket-sized book that will help fund a cancer … Continue reading
Bites: Honoring Céline, Melville’s Beards, Philosophical Novels and More
Should France honor Céline even though he was a Nazi supporter? Herman Melville used 25 different words to describe beards in two chapters of White Jacket, his 1850 novel based on his experience crewing on a US frigate in the … Continue reading
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Weekend Bites: Jarvis Cocker goes Moby-Dick, Miranda July’s new Film, Lethem on Rushkoff and More
Jarvis Cocker as Captain Ahab? Miranda July’s film, The Future, is getting positive reviews at Sundance. Scott Macaulay of Filmmaker Magazine “Loved” it. Jonathan Lethem’s Amazon review of Douglas Rushkoffs Life Inc. A video on Moleskine Debossing.
Indexing: Ballard, Glidden, Waxman, Jurassic Park, National Lampoon
Tobias Carroll Last week, I read Sarah Glidden’s How to Understand Israel in Sixty Days or Less. It came highly recommended by a number of fine people I know, and it definitely met my expectations. It’s an exploration of Glidden’s … Continue reading
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Lydia Davis in Our Bebop Capitol: Providence, Rhode Island
Posted by Nick Curley From the mean streets of Brown University, one-time Boston mayoral candidate and radio persona controversia Christopher Lydon today brings a silly-fun interview with Lydia Davis. Prior to its Brown residency, Lydon’s program Radio Open Source was … Continue reading
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Dick Watching: The Log and Line
Posted by Juliet Linderman You know when you’re in the arctic hunting whales, or studying whales, or hanging out with whales, but you’re too nervous to wear a regular bright orange life vest because it might scare off the white … Continue reading
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Bites: Bryan Charles Day, Electric Literature Party, Yoga Memoirs and More
Yesterday was a good Bryan Charles day. Catherine Lacey interviewed him at HTMLGIANT, and he also told Largehearted Boy some of the albums he listened to while writing There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From. Tonight at … Continue reading
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