Vice Magazine has a “nerds guide to gift-givery for nerds” Smith Magazine’s “21 Gifts for Storytellers“. Jewcy suggests L.L. Bean duck boots, and treyf meat for the holidays. Hollister Hovey gives us “civilized touches for the urban jungle” Some Raymond Chandler for the holidays? January Magazine says yes. Give the gift of Twitter stuff for Christmas. Gifts for your old British dad.
Bites: Editing David Foster Wallace, King Plays Santa, Ebert on Bukowski, Zine Wiki, and More
Deborah Treisman, who heads the New Yorkers fiction department, talks about editing David Foster Wallace, and the methods in which they communicated at the GQ blog. For a long time, he communicated exclusively by answering machine. I would leave him a message at some point during the day—he didn’t answer the phone—and then, late at night, when I was no longer at my desk, he would leave a very long response on my voicemail. I didn’t take this personally Lit. […]
Tao Lin Pajamas
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Bites: Hanukkah Stories, Maud Newton’s Faves, Zak Smith Picks, Tiger, and More
Over at the New Yorker, Hanukkah stories courtesy of Yoni Brenner. Maud Newton reflects on her favorite books of 2009. Gabriel Garcia Marquez gave Fidel Castro a copy of Bram Stokers Dracula. Zak Smith picks a top three over at HTMLGiant. American Psycho, Motley Crue, Sam Lipsyte, and Ghostworld are each mentioned in Details 25 Greatest Generation X books list. Tiger “Mistresses of Tiger Woods march on Washington” The Borowitz Report. Over at The Faster Times, Jonathan Wilson gives us […]
Legs McNeil Reads at Goodbye Blue Monday, Possibly Lies About Penis Size
Candace Mills went to Goodbye Blue Monday to hear Legs McNeil talk with Mickey Leigh (Joey Ramone’s brother) about their new book, I Slept With Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir. Candace told Legs she liked his book on porn, The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry, and the question turned into a short conversation about sex with dogs, and McNeil’s penis. Legs McNeil: Yeah. You. Hi. I wanted to start by saying that I loved […]
Some Opium for iPhone
Opium joins McSweeney’s, Featherproof, and whoever else we are forgetting to mention in the category of “lit publications with iPhone apps”. Todd Zuniga talked to Jacket Copy about his mags new use of technology. JC: Is the Opium app addictive? TZ: In a word: absolutely. Opium publishes fantastic, bite-sized gems every day (next week we’ll showcase 250-Word Bookmark Contest finalists — an estimated reading time no longer than one minute and 20 seconds). So there’ll always be something new to […]
Happy Birthday Tom Waits
To celebrate Waits closing in on social security, we present this video of him reading a poem by Bukowski.
Swill Children Not Going to Shake Things Up Too Much
Last week on Impose, I wrote about Jesse Hlebo starting up his new label, Swill Children. While I wasn’t 100% sure what he meant by “label”, I knew it had something to do with music, and I had hoped Hlebo would continue to produce the wonderful _ Quarterly which I discussed in August. He cleared everything up in an e mail. The label is called Swill Children and I’m referring to it as an umbrella, since it encompasses many things […]