Afternoon Bites: DeLillo at Grantland, Michel Houellebecq, preppy novels, and more

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 […]

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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.

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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…)

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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 […]

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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 […]

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