Monthly Archives: May 2011
Afternoon Bites: Ai Weiwei, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sharon van Etten, and more
German publisher Galiani Verlag will be publishing Ai Weiwei’s Macht euch keine Illusionen über mich. Der verbotene Blog. in August. No word yet on if (or when) an English translation will be released. Vol.1 favorites Godspeed You! Black Emperor are, according to … Continue reading
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Seth Fried will soon become my new favorite author
Posted by Jason Diamond Michael Schaub of Bookslut probably wouldn’t say something like “He’s like a young American Gogol,” if he didn’t really mean it. So I am just going to trust him and read Seth Fried’s story collection on … Continue reading
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An Interview With Dylan Meconis
Posted by Tobias Carroll At last year’s Stumptown Comics Convention, I found myself in a room watching a discussion of comics and history. I knew one of the participants, Kate Beaton, from her excellent Hark! A Vagrant. I was less … Continue reading
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Morning Bites: Anna Politkovskaya murder suspect, Franzen’s op-ed, Lester Bangs, and more
Edward Champion supplies us with what Jonathan Franzen left out of his New York Times op-ed. The man suspected of shooting Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 has been arrested in Chechnya. The Guardian takes a look at ongoing literary … Continue reading
Afternoon Bites: Art Publishers, Mike Mills, Europa Editions, and more
“…even given the ready scene of indie publishing and willing artists and writers, creating and selling good work remains a day-to-day battle in the cacophony of Brooklyn creative production.” -Hyperallergic looks at the art-book publishers of North Brooklyn. David Edelstein … Continue reading
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War books to forgotten films: “The Naked and the Dead”
Posted by Jason Diamond I may have heard once or twice that there was a film version of Norman Mailer’s 1948 novel, but I forgot — just like most of the world seems to have done.
Morning Bites: Gil Scott-Heron tribute, Gertrude Stein’s collection, summer books, and more
At Pitchfork, Nate Patrin pays tribute to the late Gil Scott-Heron. An exhibition of Gertrude Stein’s impressive art collection. The Daily Beast picks 10 “must read” books for the summer. The Atlantic recaps last night’s episode of Game of Thrones.
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How Lord Byron traveled to a Swiss orgy scene
Posted by Jason Diamond His mode of transport was a replica of Napoleon’s coach, and with him were a bevy of footmen, his personal physician (an emotionally troubled young doctor with a bookish bent named John Polidori), a peacock, a … Continue reading
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Afternoon Bites: NYPL, BookCountry, Norman Spinrad, and more
Last Friday night, the New York Public Library hosted 500 people to kick off their “Find the Future” event. One of our editors was there, and so was Electric Literature. Christopher Weingarten chats with the members of K-Holes for the … Continue reading
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Indexing: ESPN, Erik Davis, Emma Forrest, and more
Jason Diamond I’m going to pick up ESPN: Those Guys Have all the Fun today after work. I’m pretty sure that makes me just another cog in the machine of this soon-to-be bestseller, but I don’t care. Also going to crack open … Continue reading
