Posted by Jason Diamond In case you haven’t seen it, Steve Jobs teaches Saint Peter how to use an iPad at the gates of heaven on the cover of this week’s New Yorker. Hopefully St. Pete can read anything off the Apple tablet with the glare of God beaming down on the screen, but what really confuses me is that Steve Jobs was a Buddhist. Shouldn’t he be depicted as something like a reincarnated bunny rabbit holding an iPod shuffle […]
Morning Bites: Stacks of books, Jennifer Gilmore talks to Elissa Schappell, Franzen and P.J. O’Rourke on Bill Maher, and more
Slate on the new Jeffrey Eugenides novel, The Marriage Plot. Vol. 1 on Jeffrey Eugenides: the dude really knows how to rock a vest. If you like pictures of stacks of books from the offices of various media companies, BuzzFeed has got the post for you. Jonathan Franzen, P.J. O’Rourke, and others discussed Occupy Wall Street with Bill Maher this past weekend. Jennifer Gilmore interviews Elissa Schappell over at The Rumpus. Thanks to WFMU for leading us to Hans Richter’s […]
100 years of Vaughn Monroe
Vaughn Monroe was born on this day 100 years ago. The bandleader is best known for singing the song “Riders in the Sky.”
Morning Bites: Joan Didion pictures, Andrew Bird on film, Henry Rollins with long hair, and more
Andrew Bird on film. At The Awl: Daniel D’Addario on pictures of Joan Didion. Nobel Prize winner Tomas Tranströmer is a hero to somebody. Pictures of a young Henry Rollins when he had long flowing locks. Makeshift shrines for Steve Jobs pop up at an Apple Store.
Bigfoot interviews Ben Loory
Our insiders say that Harry (of The Hendersons fame) wasn’t available, so they got the other legendary Sasquatch to talk to the author of Stories For Nighttime and Some for the Day.
Morning Bites: Tranströmer takeover, Roth’s consolation prize, Lev Grossman TV, and more
Real talk: Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize for literature, and we’ve never read any of his work. But that doesn’t stop us from thinking the cover for his “20 Poems” is really cool. Philip Roth didn’t win (again…), but he’s been shortlisted for an award celebrating medicine in literature. Steve Jobs gave us our choice of fonts. This whole Lev Grossman book becoming a movie thing is really awesome news. Joshua Cohen says Yizkor (remembrance) for books. Ethan Nosowsky […]
Morning Bites: Emily Books, lit mag names, Civil War stuffs, Klosterman, and more
Emily Gould’s indie bookstore/bookclub/pretty awesome idea, Emily Books, is up and running. Judging lit mags by their names. The trailer for Art Spiegelman’s MetaMaus. CNN talks to Chuck Klosterman. The always great Around the Mall blog continues their reports on exhibits from around the Smithsonian on artifacts from the Civil War. This time around they tackle The Washington Eight. Who needs Radiohead when you can get Jeff Mangum to play Occupy Wall Street?
Morning Bites: David Rakoff scores, Marcel the Shell, Fear and Loathing again, and more
Marcel the Shell gets a book deal, and Jezebel talks to Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp about it. “Challenged once by a friend to name a single immortal literary character from postwar fiction — someone to rival Sherlock Holmes or Madame Bovary in terms of bleed-through to popular consciousness — I blurted out “Norman Mailer!” ” – Jonathan Lethem hearts Norman Mailer. David Rakoff wins the Thurber Prize for American Humor for his hilarious essay collection Half Empty. Retracing Hunter […]