We decided it was high time to settle the war between the North and the South – of Brooklyn. Our two competitors for this inner-borough civil war include staff from the Greenpoint Gazette and Overflow Magazine. The pride of Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Greenpoint are on the line as the Gazetters, representing the northern section of Brooklyn, face off against the southerners of Overflow from the mean streets of Gowanus. These two teams will compete in a no-holds-barred battle of the […]
Bites: Turdsworth, the man who makes Pekar tweet, The Twilight Sad, and more
Romantics get saucy! Lord Byron referred to William Wordsworth as “Turdsworth” in a letter. Now somebody can own that letter, and many others by the poet. Are we excited seeing trailers for the new Wes Anderson film, Fantastic Mr. Fox? Yes we are. Lit. Jeff Newelt: The man, the myth, the dude who tweets for Harvey Pekar. Nick Cave: “An aspirant solipsist” Starbucks saved a life, but how was the book? After all this zombie talk, it was finally time […]
Miranda July as “famous” extras
(Via Vice)
Dear Fucked In Park Slope,
No, “cutsey shmoopy names” are not at all cool. They are horrible. With that said, and as a fellow resident of The Slope, I have to ask another question: Is it wrong to name your baby after current indie rock superstars? I saw this mother who could not be more than three years older than me (im 29) yelling “come here Sufjan, Sufi, come here” at Union Hall a few months back. And another question, why was that kid at […]
Glenn Beck: No gimmicks, a monkey and a Salon piece
Salon piece on “The Making of Glenn Beck” And…
Kafka, and Surrealism, Will Make You Smarter
by Willa A. Cmiel “…At this juncture, my intention was merely to mark a point by noting the hate of the marvelous which rages in certain men, this absurdity beneath which they try to bury it. Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.” The Guardian this afternoon: Research from psychologists at the University of California in Santa Barbara and the University of British Columbia claims to […]
Bites: Osama hearts John Mearsheimer, People care about Dan Brown, the reading habits of cheerleaders, Pavement is back, and more
Lit. Who would have guessed that Osama Bin Laden was a fan of books by Jimmy Carter (above, looking troubled) and a University of Chicago professor? I wonder if he has a Goodreads account? People are really excited about Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. Lev Grossman asks “How Good is it?” Vulture looks at the “daring interior monologue” in The Lost Symbol. Jacket Copy tells us “How to Party Like Dan Brown“, and suddenly we think we should just give […]
Bites: Dickens as the modern dad, Ivy Pochoda to make publishing history, Tao Lin saves, and more
Lit. Could Dickens be a role model for the parents of today, or was it that he just had O.C.D.? Ivy Pochoda is the featured reader at our upcoming Vol. 1 Brooklyn Storytelling series. With her new book The Art of Disappearing (St. Martins Press) out tomorrow, which coincidentally is the same day that Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol hits stands, Ivy says that together, the two of them combined will make publishing history. This points to a good sign […]