Monthly Archives: July 2011
Afternoon Bites: Rebel Booksellers, Simon Van Booy, Posman Books, and more
Ron Hogan reports from the Rebel Bookseller panel at Greenlight last Friday, with choice quotes from WORD’s Christine Onorati and Melville House’s Denis Loy Johnson, among others. The Guardian makes with some Booker-longlist predictions. NYC’s Posman Books is opening a Rockefeller Center … Continue reading
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Hunter S. Thompson didn’t like “swill,” or people from South Bend
Possibly the best rejection letter ever? (Via Letters of Note)
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Morning Bites: Lev Grossman on novelist reviewers, on being a Gatsby, Ben Loory, and more
“When a critic writes a novel, it’s like one of those movies where the cop crosses the line and gets tossed in jail along with the people he put there,” he said. “There’s no question, writing fiction has changed the … Continue reading
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Quote of the day: Beirut on Bolaño
Q. Your new single is called “East Harlem,” and in your e-mail you said you like Bolaño because he has “the same idle and poetic amusement with city and street names” as you do. Are you reading him now? A. … Continue reading
Indexing: Gary Lutz, The Chairs Are Where The People Go, Spotify, Fungi Girls, and more.
Tobias Carroll In keeping with the previous two editions of Indexing, it should surprise no one to learn that I’ve been reading…even more George R.R. Martin. Just short of 2,000 pages of this week’s reading consisted of his A Feast … Continue reading
Afternoon Bites: Steve Reich, Dwarf Fortress, Colin Meloy, and more
Via Pitchfork: one can now read the first chapters of Colin Meloy’s Wildwood Chronicles (with illustrations by Carson Ellis). Fans of the creative output of the Meloy siblings as a whole should also take note that Maile Meloy’s The Apothecary is due … Continue reading
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Wayne Koestenbaum wants to discuss your humiliation
Posted by Jason Diamond If I’m going to take advice from anybody, I’m going to listen to a man who dresses like Mo Rocca’s funky uncle. Second, Koestenbaum is the only person I can think of who has been blurbed … Continue reading
I really need a Paris Review towel today
Posted by Jason Diamond Remember that Paris Review towel we talked about a few weeks back? We could really use one of those to try off the buckets of sweat via the disgusting NYC heat. We should probably enter this … Continue reading
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Morning Bites: Literary graffiti. Hanging at KGB, Lucien Freud, and more
(The above graffiti is via our pal Jenn Northington, who says that she got it via Lapham’s Quarterly by way of Rachel Fershleiser. We figured we’d give credit to all those people instead of acting like we found it.) Tablet’s … Continue reading
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