Don DeLillo talks to Grantland. And his just in: unicorns are real, a cure for cancer has been found, and the Chicago Cubs will win the World Series net year. More amazing things to follow. Before clicking the link, try and guess what the most “preppy novel” of all-time is. Sooner or later you had to know you’d hear something like this: Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock star in an adaptation of a Jonathan Safran Novel. The Guardian on Michel […]
Quotable: Zack Galifianakis as Ignatius Reilly?
Posted by Jason Diamond “I’ve read two books in my life, and I’d like to do Confederacy of Dunces — which will never happen.” I’d given up hope that somebody will make a (good) film version of Confederacy of Dunces, but for a second at this weekend’s New Yorker Festival, Zach Galifianakis gave me a reason to dream once again.
Rare shoegaze
Posted by Jason Diamond Captured Tracks posted this song by the obscure 90s shoegaze band Half String. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that it’s the best new thing you will hear all day. (Unless of course you’ve been one of the few to actually hear this before. In that case, you probably already understand…)
Morning Bites: Nobel odds, Esquire short fiction, Book Riot, Stephen King on horror flicks, and more
Place your bets on the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Esquire wants you to write 78 words of fiction. If it’s good, you can go study with Colum McCann. Book Riot has launched. We think it might be the future. Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk is officially a man without a religion. Tonight on Turner Classic Movies, an hour of Stephen King talking about horror movies. Over at Salon, Scott Timberg’s essay on the ” hollowing out of the creative […]
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 with a bird of prey go against the whole twee philosophy?
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.
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 one day this would happen. We’re really excited, except we’re really hoping there is no graphic talk about sex with Billy Corgan. Michel Moore hangs out at St. Marks Bookshop. The Charles Dickens coin is coming soon. Alfred Hitchcock and […]
Animating Nathan Englander
Nathan Englander’s “The Reader” gets the animation treatment via Electric Literature.