At EmDashes, the four covers created for the 85th anniversary issue of The New Yorker. Was Hamlet gay? Superman goes for a million. The Rumpus lets us know about new fiction on Muumuu House by Megan Boyle Faulkner as a mascot? Three Guys One Book talk about spring indies. At The Faster Times, Michael Kimball Interviews Christopher Higgs
Video of the Year
Sweat Records announced the winners of their “Make A Rachel Goodrich Video and Win $500” contest this past Saturday night, which was followed by an in-store performance by the local superstar folk diva. (Read Crossfade’s recap of the event here.) In my humble opinion, Lucas Leyva’s entry, above, should have taken a clear-cut first place (the three finalists all tied for a joint final win). (Via)
“Prepare to get schooled in my Austrian perspective”
(Thanks Boing Boing)
Coming to a Bookstore Near You: Joanna Newsom and Sen. Scott Brown
From Moby House: After only a week (yes, ONE WEEK) of being a US Senator, Senator Brown is shopping his memoir to the major publishing houses. What is this book even about? you might ask. It would be a good question, since this is Senator Brown’s first foray into the national spotlight (with the exception of his 1980s two-page naked spread in Cosmopolitan magazine). From Pitchfork: The Dylan-referencing Visions of Joanna Newsom is a brand new tome featuring a “selection […]
Bites: Literary Video Games, Faulkner’s Inspiration, Justin Taylor’s Music Picks, Riot Grrrl, and More
Literary classics that would be perfect for your Atari, Neo Geo, or whatever the kids are using to Donkey Kong on these days. The diary that inspired Faulkner. Justin Taylor picks out songs for Largehearted Boy. Kierkegaard gets the English treatment. Don DeLillo’s newest book, Point Omega, is reviewed. Salinger got some gin up his schnoz Marisa Meltzer talks riot grrrls at Slate. Balzac, Anna Karenina, and Susan Boyle, together at last.
Happening: Greatest Three-Minute Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Ever
Thursday, Feb. 11th Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Gigantic Present: Greatest Three-Minute Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Ever You know, Brooklyn is a kind of alright place for music and books. But where can you find the two together? At the Greatest Three-Minute Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Ever, that’s where. Greatest Three-Minute Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Ever is where writers, rockers and raconteurs are united at last, relating three-minute stories of youth, sex, booze, noise and a little thing called rock ‘n’ […]
Kant Win
Sorry, I had to use that as the subject after reading this: “When France’s most dashing philosopher took aim at Immanuel Kant in his latest book, calling him “raving mad” and a “fake”, his observations were greeted with the usual adulation. To support his attack, Bernard-Henri Lévy — a showman-penseur known simply by his initials, BHL — cited the little-known 20th-century thinker Jean-Baptiste Botul. There was one problem: Botul was invented by a journalist in 1999 as an elaborate joke, […]
A Strong Tribute
Over at The Bumpidee Reader, Toby Vail talks about radical journalist from the early part of the 20th century, Anna Louise Strong.