Talking Elmore Leonard, Ray Bradbury’s zine, Stephen King teaching about America, new Chelsea Wolfe, and more.
Trenches Full of Poets
I’ve been listening to “Spanish Bombs” by The Clash on obsessive repeat all weekend. Even though London Calling is one of those albums that I’ve listened to a thousand times, “Spanish Bombs” always just acted as one of the songs that go into making the London Calling one of the best complete albums ever pressed to vinyl, no more important than the title track, “Lost in the Supermarket,” “Death or Glory,” or any of the other songs on the near-perfect […]
Burgers We Ate
I felt like a character out of a Dickens novel, slinking past the DuMont on Union, on my long walk back to Greenpoint with five dollars I could either spend on the subway, or an egg and cheese sandwich from the deli. Inside DuMont there were people eating, drinking, and laughing; I was on the outside, down to my last few bucks, waiting for the biggest freelance check I had ever received, the one that signaled it was finally safe […]
Cheap American Beer: A Love Story
Sometimes I try and see if I can come up with a better term than “cheap” to describe the 36 beers that Will Gordon wrote up in his Deadspin piece, “36 Cheap American Beers, Ranked,” but I can’t. Even though a few of the beers on the list were at one time or another the biggest beers in America, long before the craft beer revolution and expensive growler-filling stations at Whole Foods became trendy, Schlitz, Pabst, and Budweiser have been […]
This is not a Luc Sante Reader
This is not a Luc Sante reader, but I really wish that it was.
Morning Bites: 2013 Books You Must Read, Tea Party Vs. YA, A Gothic Novelist Birthday, Michelle Tea’s Jams, and More
Kyle Minor speaks with Andrew Sean Greer, The Millions put together their reading list for the rest of 2013, a Tea Party guys takes on a popular YA novel, and more.
Weekend Bites: New Yorker Books, Miranda July, Lord Chesterfield’s Advice, Climate Change Novels, and More
Miranda July is interviewed, New Yorker books, Lord Chesterfield’s advice on dressing well, Elias Tezapsidis on Helen DeWitt, and more.
A Guy Watching Mad Men: A Desk Into A Business (S6/E13 “In Care Of”)
We, or maybe just I, sort of expect bad things to befall the people of Mad Men at this point. Maybe I’m a little more of a fatalist than most, but I’m working with a “and then they all die in the end…” scenario that includes Roger’s heart finally tapping out, Pete comically falling down a very large flight of stairs one last time, and the earth opening up and just swallowing Don whole. Somehow Bert avoids these disasters, lives forever, and […]