Monthly Archives: July 2011
Indexing: Nathanael West, Gary Lutz, Mihail Sebastian, xhardcorex, and more
Tobias Carroll I spent most of the past week reading Patrick Hamilton’s Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky. In its chronicling of flawed people interacting and sometimes failing to connect, its portrait of desperation, and its unflinching realism, I’d file it not far … Continue reading
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Afternoon Bites: Lorrie Moore, Piethos V, Rebecca Solnit, and more
“…even an infinite city is a shared space, and if Solnit’s frank declarations of the book’s limits occasionally seem like protesting too much — a preemptive strike against any number of predictable, small-minded criticisms about things left out — they … Continue reading
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This Bored to Death teaser fails to tell me anything
Posted by Jason Diamond I’m a huge fan of Bored to Death, but when I hear about a “teaser,” I expect something that teases me as to what the new season has in store. This fails to do that. I’m … Continue reading
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What a big desk Jami Attenberg has…
Jami Attenberg writes about the desk she writes at. Continue reading
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Morning Bites: Slaughterhouse-Five is banned, Eggers on Sendak, Andrew Bird does Kermit, and more
Today: writers tell the Daily Beast their favorite summer reads, Kurt Vonnegut is banned in a Missouri school, Andrew Bird covers “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” and a bunch more. Continue reading
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Afternoon Bites: Binyavanga Wainaina, Stockholm, Monster Island, and more
“[Wainaina]‘s point is that the Africa he sees—which is made of up thousands of differentiated sections, countries, neighborhoods—is his. He’ll take you there, but there’s never any doubt that the reader is being welcomed into the author’s particular response to a … Continue reading
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G-D, Jesus, Buddah, Mohammed, Susan Sontag in a bear suit…
Posted by Jason Diamond We honestly could not add anything to this awesomeness. (Via people on Twitter, and this Tumblr)
Melville House makes the best/worst book trailer for five dueling novellas
Posted by Jason Diamond Oh Melville House, you guys with your beautiful Art of the Novella series, and your really clever marketing schemes. The latest being for your “Duel” series with books by Joseph Conrad, Alexander Kuprin, Giacomo Casanova, Anton Chekhov, … Continue reading
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Band Booking: Damon Locks of The Eternals
Interview by Tobias Carroll Damon Locks has made category-defying music for over twenty years now, beginning with his work in the 90s as a member of Trenchmouth and continuing to the present day, with Exploding Star Orchestra and The Eternals. … Continue reading
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