Monthly Archives: November 2011
Afternoon Bites: Occupy Musicians, Late Great Creatures, Zines About Zines, and more
“For the reader, Brower’s writing is all loquacious zingers but the book’s observations on culture are as hard-bitten as they are elegant.” Brian Joseph Davis on Brock Bower’s recently-reissued novel The Late Great Creature. As of today, Occupy Musicians is … Continue reading
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Band Booking: Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes and Blackout Beach
Interview by Tobias Carroll If your tastes in music run towards the eccentric, the literate, the highly compelling, and the surreally energetic, odds are good that you’ve encountered the work of Carey Mercer. Mercer’s latest work is Fuck Death, the … Continue reading
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Morning Bites: “not beat poets,” last Sonic Youth show, Victorian hoarders, animating Bolaño, and more
Today you should do birthday shots for Voltaire, Goldie Hawn, Björk, and Ken Griffey Jr. Robert Hass, the 70-year-old former Poet Laureate of the United States, writes an op-ed about being beaten by police at Occupy Berkeley. At Granta: Animating Bolaño. … Continue reading
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Indexing: Dispatches from Occupy, Alex Shakar, Lauren Beukes, The Metaphysical Club, grunge books, and much more
A roundup of things consumed by our editors. Tobias Carroll Mostly: this week’s involved reading coverage of Occupy Wall Street, whether up-t0-the-minute reporting on protests and arrests or the essays by Jeff Sharlet and Sarah Leonard in the latest issue … Continue reading
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Afternoon Bites: Amelia Gray, Sara Levine, Paula Bomer, and more
“[T]his highly original, farcical novel will keep you entertained in spite of (or more accurately, because of) its toxic narrator” At Library Journal, Lauren Gilbert on Sara Levine’s upcoming novel Treasure Island!!! (on Europa Editions.) Vice has an excerpt up … Continue reading
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Lance Loud: Proto-Punk God
Posted by Jason Diamond The late Lance Loud has a lot of labels attached to his name: Original reality television star for his role on the PBS show An American Family, gay icon, rock writer and musician in the band … Continue reading
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Morning Bites: Saving the OWS library, Will Hermes, what Jenny Slate reads, what happened to Lolita, and more
At Salon: How Jami Attenberg (and friends) tried to help rescue the OWS library. Another excerpt from Will Hermes’s fantastic Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years That Changes Music Forever. What really happened to Lolita. Jenny Slate tells … Continue reading
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Afternoon Bites: Ann Patchett, Ann Beattie, Kevin Sampsell, and more
“I…have no interest in living in a city without a bookstore.” Ann Patchett has opened a Parnassus Books, a bookstore in Nashville. In related news: fuck yeah, Ann Patchett. New poetry from Kevin Sampsell. Vulture chats with Ann Beattie about … Continue reading
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This IS what a police state looks like: Keith Gessen arrested at OWS
Posted by Jason Diamond Via Daniel Massey’s Twitter: That’s Keith Gessen getting arrested at the Occupy protests going on right now. So now we’ve got freedom of the press being shit on, Jewish things being destroyed, and (more) intellectuals being arrested. Wonderful. … Continue reading
