Winter is coming (well, the holiday shopping season is, but winter nonetheless), and it’s getting everybody really psyched about the impending Kindle Fire vs. iPad wars. Slate and The Daily Beast weigh in. At The Millions: Can we please just give Philip Roth a fricken Nobel Prize already? Until then, he’s just gonna keep chilling. Taking a look at Truffaut’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. This week will see the release of Arthur Conan Doyle’s long lost first novel, […]
Morning Bites: Dorothy Parker Day, questions for Ben Loory, Stephen King reading, and more
Dorothy Parker gets her day back. (We wish we could have been more witty with that line.) Ben Loory gets asked some questions at Fictionaut. Stephen King reads from his forthcoming sequel to The Shining. When beatniks, mods, and rockers walked the streets of London. Over at Bookforum, Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy is reviewed.
Take Ivy Pt. 2?
Posted by Jason Diamond Question of the day: If your college is labeled as a “New Ivy,” do you start slapping that on brochures, and get your guides to mention it on campus tours? Or would that be gauche? Sub question: Did I post this question just so I could use the cover image for Take Ivy?
Morning Bites: Walking Bedford, High Holy Days reading list, Jesse Thorn is dapper, and more
Our friends Jon Cotner and Claire Hamilton take a stroll down Bedford Ave. in Brooklyn for this photo essay at BMW Guggenheim Lab. Stuart Nadler blogs about autumn and the Jewish High Holy days. David Foster Wallace and Virginia Woolf make Jewcy’s High Holiday reading list. A nice shortlist of scary books for October. You’ve got a few days to stock up on these books before the month starts. HTML Giant starts a series on comic books. Fictionaut talks to […]
Hemingway goes pulp
Posted by Jason Diamond This 1960 cover from the pulp magazine “Man’s Illustrated” is obviously the best thing I’m going to find on this Monday afternoon, and truth be told, I’m entirely alright with that. This mag had everything I want to read about: Cold War paranoia, an expose on the the “free-love fraternity,” and an illustration of Papa with a beard that looks like it was dyed to look like a skunk. (Via Finding Kurtz)
George Gershwin is 113-years-old today
Posted by Jason Diamond Today on this day in 1898, Jacob Gershowitz was born in Brooklyn. He’d later change his name to George Gershwin, and go on to be one of the two or three most important composers in American history.
Morning Bites: Romantic Revolution, Chaim Grade, Jim Carroll back in 1980, and more
Rousseau the revolutionary? The Daily Beast takes a look at Tim Blanning’s new book The Romantic Revolution. Vox Tablet takes a look at the fate of the personal archives of the late Yiddish writer Chaim Grade. Jim Carroll in 1980. Lev Grossman visited Studio 360. Indie Reader Houston picks the five best banned books. Did you hear the new 7″ by Grouper that came out a few weeks back? No? Well, here’s your chance.
Morning Bites: Luddites, banned books, immodest Orthodox book, “hot authors,” Riot Grrrl, and more
Exploring the history of the Luddites, aka, what you call yourself because you don’t have an iPad. Banned Book Week? Try getting your ultra-Orthodox bookstore vandalized because you sell “immodest” books. Mark Twain gets unbanned for Banned Book Week. At Impose, Josh Spilker has a few thoughts on Canteen’s “Hot Author” series. NPR takes a look at 20 years of Riot Grrrl. And finally from the Generation X nostalgia department: Nevermind was released twenty years ago tomorrow, and The Rumpus […]