“How the Paperback Novel Changed Literature” (Thanks Boing Boing) Taking a road trip with David Foster Wallace. N+1 editor scores big. 5 poems by the late Ai. All the Lipsyte you can handle. Everybody is happy about the forthcoming Band of Horses album. The best baseball books. All the dirty little things about baseball players you didn’t know as a kid.
Michael Musto Vs. LCD Soundsystem: Who Cares?
Apparently Flavorpill does, so they’ve created a list of famous feuds between musicians and music journalists. If you don’t want to read it, here’s the rundown: Musto and James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem aren’t really having a feud. Murphy was being playful. Musto’s own publication interviewed him about it. Lou Reed vs. Lester Bangs: I’ll admit to this being relevant, and I wish more music crits. wrote drug fueled criticism of their hero’s. Courtney Love vs. Lynn Hirschberg: I didn’t […]
Passover Bites: Franzen’s Cover, Warhol’s Pals, Cheever’s Story, Atwood’s Addiction, Kerman’s Excerpt, Neil Young on Skype, and More
Jonathan Franzen has a new novel coming out and The Millions show us the cover. The New Republic posted a John Cheever story from 1936. Margaret Atwood might need a Twitter intervention. Levi Asher on Reality Hunger. An excerpt from Piper Kerman’s book, Orange is the New Black. Andy Warhol had a lot of friends that he took pictures of. Neil Young, Jonathan Demme, and Skype. Titus Andronicus and rock from New Jersey. Bluto, Otter, D-Day, Boehner, Cantor, Brown, and […]
Another Young Man, Gone
“Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous has committed suicide, his publicist confirms to Rolling Stone. Best known for his acclaimed work with Sparklehorse, who released four albums of imaginative ambient psych-folk” (Via)
Chicken Soup for the Proust Reading “Literary” Types
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Quick Questions for Bob Powers
Bob Powers: The man, the myth, the guy who makes us nearly pee ourselves with delight every time he gets up on a stage, who has written adult choose your own adventure books, and survival guides for werewolves. Forget all that. Bob also hosts (along former Daily Show writers Jason Reich and Scott Jacobson) the monthly funny literary series called Steamboat, at the always awesome Greenlight Bookstore. The next one, on March 18th, Steamboat brings you Julie Klausner, Mike Albo, […]
Bites: The Coens Grit, Detesting Eggers, Dennis Cooper on Justin Taylor, Lit. Mystery Spots, and More
The Coen bros are closer to making True Grit a reality. From The Awl: “It’s safe to say that Eggers is currently the most detested man in American haute-literary circles.” Remember that time a bunch of people wanted to kill Salman Rushdie? He’s gonna write a book about it. Dennis Cooper on Justin Taylor. L Magazine reviews Taylor’s Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever. A literary mystery spot at Lit Kicks. Where all all the Jews in John Hughes’ […]
John Grisham to Become Latest Douchebag to Write Kids Book
Joining the ranks of Madonna, Jay Leno, and Tori Spelling… If his success with young readers is anything like his achievement with adults, horsehair wigs for kids may soon be ousting Harry Potter merchandise from the shops. John Grisham, whose legal thrillers have shifted more than 250m copies to adult readers, is set to move into the children’s market with a new series of novels about a 13-year-old “who knows more about the law than most lawyers” and gets caught […]