At Bookforum, Ann Powers, Carl Wilson, and Daphne Carr discuss Simon Reynolds’s Retromania and the issues it raises.
- Tonight’s panel at McNally Jackson on zines and DIY culture gone digital sounds mightily interesting.
- Conversational Reading has a guide to interesting books set to be released in the months to come.
- Matt Fraction: interviewed about comics and metal. (“I bet Thor would go see Mastodon play live. And Clutch. Emma Frost would be a X-Ray Spex/new wave girl…”)
- The first installment of the Christopher Weingarten-curated Avant Brunch series, featuring Julianna Barwick, is written about by Rozalia Jovanovic.
- At HTML Giant, Matthew Simmons interviews Ryan Boudinot.
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