Monthly Archives: September 2011
Afternoon Bites: Orwell’s jazz flute, Awesome Tapes from Africa, Pindeldyboz remembered, and more
“Who knew ghost stories were this political? I didn’t. My theory is that old money likes to squash folklore because of what it reveals about how their families got rich.” At The Lit Pub, thoughts on Kimberly Lynne’s Dredging the … Continue reading
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Getting deep about Ernest Hemingway modeling Etsy sweaters
Posted by Jason Diamond Does putting an owl on a sweater technically count as putting a bird on it? Does it have to be a specific sort of bird, and does the photo of Ernest Hemingwy wearing an Etsy sweater … Continue reading
The 87th year of Truman Capote’s existence
Posted by Jason Diamond Truman Streckfus Persons was born on this day in 1924 in New Orleans. Here is some of the video evidence we could find on the existence of his life.
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Morning Bites: Calvin Trillin, Courtney Love’s memoir, Dickens coin, Michael Moore at St. Marks, and more
Calvin Trillin sits down with Mother Jones for an interview. A collection of his work, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, is out on Random House. Courtney Love is writing a memoir. You had to know … Continue reading
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Afternoon Bites: Steve Albini, Kate Beaton, “This May Be My Last Time Singing,” and more
Ellen Hopkins contributes to the LA Review of Books’ feature on Banned Books Week. At Gothamist, Jen Carlson chats with Steve Albini. Amanda Petrusich reviews the Mike McGonigal-assembled compilation This May Be My Last Time Singing. (We interviewed McGonigal earlier this … Continue reading
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Some Thoughts on Rick Moody’s “The Four Fingers of Death”
Posted by Tobias Carroll In the end, it’s the messy works that get me: the movies and books that should not under any circumstances work and yet do; the idiosyncratic works are the ones that invariably burrow into my subconscious … Continue reading
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Animating Nathan Englander
Nathan Englander’s “The Reader” gets the animation treatment via Electric Literature.
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Morning Bites: Philip Roth’s nonexistent Nobel, Truffaut’s Bradbury, vampire Jews, and more
Winter is coming (well, the holiday shopping season is, but winter nonetheless), and it’s getting everybody really psyched about the impending Kindle Fire vs. iPad wars. Slate and The Daily Beast weigh in. At The Millions: Can we please just … Continue reading
Afternoon Bites: The Mekons, Jack London, Christopher Boucher, and more
Christopher Boucher, author of How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, contributes a playlist to Largehearted Boy’s ongoing series. Douglas Wolk on The Mekons’ latest: “The ideas that shape their songs, and the means by which they create them, are the important part; … Continue reading
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