Monthly Archives: May 2011
Review: Funeral for a Dog
Review by Tobias Carroll Funeral for a Dog by Thomas Pletzinger; translated by Ross Benjamin W.W. Norton, 322 p. Thomas Pletzinger’s novel Funeral For a Dog opens with a pair of epigraphs. The first comes from the late Swiss writer … Continue reading
Morning Bites: New Malkmus, Kate Christensen, poker books, and more
Coming in August: Mirror Traffic by Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks. Moby Lives takes a look at Amazon’s “attack” against publishers. Maud Newton on Kate Christensen’s “inner dick.” Why Levi Asher wrote a book about poker. This American Life has … Continue reading
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Afternoon Bites: Jonny Greenwood, Charles Willeford, Tayari Jones, and more
Given its appearance on the Approval Matrix this week and these recommendations from Maud Newton and Sam Sifton, we will likely be picking up the reissue of Charles Willeford’sCockfighter quite soon. At Sound of the City, Seth Colter Walls takes a look at Jonny Greenwood’s … Continue reading
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HBO grabs Sam Lipsyte
Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Ames, and now Sam Lipsyte all can say they’ve been hired by HBO to write shows. According to Vulture, HBO is developing a new comedy created by Lipsyte called People City. The show is described as … Continue reading
Mr. Podcast Dude: Julie Klausner, The New Yorker, Gary Shandling on WTF
Posted by Jason Diamond On “How was Your Week,” Julie Klausner somehow takes her opening conversation from the connection between comedians and magicians to how she will never take an epsom salt bath to relax, because it always reminds her … Continue reading
Morning Bites: Bob Dylan another year older, Melville’s passport, Vanessa Veselka, David Byrne DVD, and more
It’s Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday. The Guardian takes a look at how he remade the rock memoir. What isn’t mentioned is how he also spawned 1,000 Greil Marcus imitators, but whatever. Zazen author Vanessa Veselka, talks to Largehearted Boy about … Continue reading
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Afternoon Bites: Diski on language, Gigantic release party, tUnE-yArDs in Brooklyn, and more
“What have writers got but words? And what have people got but their own bodies to inhabit? What then if you’re a writer and the kind of person who has a body part that could be named by a word that … Continue reading
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That time St. Vincent covered Big Black
Posted by Jason Diamond From the Our Band Could Be Your Life concert that took place last night, here is St. Vincent killing this song.
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Revisiting Jewel’s book of crappy poetry
Posted by Jason Diamond Today is Jewel’s birthday. This really has no effect on my life besides from the fact that her book of poetry continues to haunt me since its initial publication. In 1998, I was working at a … Continue reading
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