Your Hemingway Fetish Is A Little Much

At Slate, Nathan Heller talks about our collective obsession with Ernest Hemingway, saying the late writer has become the literary equivalent to the Nike Swoosh.  He attributes this to a high school curriculum heavy in Hemingway and Shakespeare–the reason why these are the two English-language writers “every high-school student in this country reads.”  (Eh?)

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Craig Finn’s Beer

  Will Oldham gets a coffee blend, now Craig Finn gets his own beer.  Clear Heart will “contains a melody of bitterness and citrus notes, the fresh hops and malted barley are in harmony within this golden brew, a full-bodied taste with an easy finish,” and is named after Finn’s solo album, which is a reference to Friday Night Lights. We can only hope that this means we can await Bon Iver jerky and a Best Coast Slurpee flavor. Follow Vol. […]

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H.P. Lovecraft Died for Your Heavy Metal

If you’re at all familiar with the last 20+ years of metal—especially that which falls under the “doom” sub-category—you will know that Matt Pike is one of the few guys who has seriously clawed his way towards the seventh circle of heavy metal hell that is reserved for deities like Ronnie James Dio (R.I.P.), pre-reality show Ozzy, and, of course, Lemmy.  It might sound tacky to call Pike’s work with the band Sleep as “game-changing,” but that’s really the best […]

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Food Books + Brooklyn =s Food Book Fair

Elizabeth Jones came up with an idea that we’re truly shocked nobody else has had: a book fair for food books on the Williamsburg waterfront.  Jones is currently looking for some help from people via Kickstarter, and has said if she reaches they surpass their goal that everybody gets in for free.  Really, what could be better than hanging out by the water on a beautiful spring day and talking about cookbooks?  

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Poetry Out Loud (1969-1977) Series Is Remastered And Reissued

The long forgotten Poetry Out Loud series, which ran from 1969 and 1977, has been rereleased by the De Stijl record label out of Minneapolis.  Poetry Out Loud’s stated mission was to take “poetry off the page,” and by listening to any of these tracks, you can see that they definitely did just that.  The collection is interesting as a document of experimental poetry, and as a totally unique listen.  I daresay the psychedelic war whoop sound is more akin to Animal Collective or an […]

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