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Afternoon Bites: Nick Antosca on Satire, Rosie Schaap on Soccer Bars, Brian Evenson and Rob Zombie Team Up, And More
Adam Wilson made Electric Literature a mixtape. Also, he weighs in on the eternal Klosterman/tUnE-yArDs debate: “I like Chuck Klosterman a lot, but he’s totally wrong.” (In case you missed it, Joe Winkler reviewed Wilson’s Flatscreen earlier this week.) Roxane Gay puts in her two cents on the whole Franzen/Twitter kerfuffle. The Collagist catches up with Nick Antosca, author of Midnight Picnic and The Obese. Mike Pace, singer/guitarist of the sorely missed Oxford Collapse, is back with a new project, […]
Previewing the BKBF (Brooklyn Book Festival)
Vol. 1 takes a look at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival.
Went to: EMP Pop Conference at UCLA (part two)
Posted by Tobias Carroll (Part one of my notes from 2011’s EMP Pop Conference can be found here.) The first panel I attended on Sunday had the fairly dry title “Regional Models and Strategies.” What emerged, though, was one of the strongest and most enlightening sections of the conference. Laith Ulaby led off with a presentation on media and music in the Middle East, ranging from Umm Kulthum to the contemporary history of the media company Rotana. Daphne Carr’s piece […]
The Week That Shall be: 11/14 to 11/20
Every Friday, we will be bringing you this bite sized guide to things going on that we find interesting for the next seven days to follow. Saturday, November 14th Craig Finn, Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady, and some guy named Chuck Klosterman are doing a 1PM happy hour at Le Poisson Rouge. Ten bucks. Another Hold Steady member (and guy soon to be published on Julius Singer Press), Franz Nicolay plays with one of our favorite bands, The Shondes, […]
Bites: Big Screen Risk, Blossoming Literary Bromance, Vonnegut Makeover, Folks Covering Punks, Doomsday FAIL, and More
Little known fact: The editors of this site are huge fans of the board game Risk. We aren’t totally sure how we feel about a movie adaptation starring the Fresh prince of Bel-Air though. Lit. The Faster Times takes a look at McSweeney’s taking a stab at making a newspaper. Three Guys One Book really, really like The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats by Hesh Kestin, but they don’t have a crush on the author. Colin Meloy of the band […]
Bites: Fargo Rock City on the big screen, the neuronovel, The Low Anthem, and more
Chuck Klosterman’s Fargo Rock City is getting turned into a movie, and Craig Finn of The Hold Steady is helping to write it. Lit. N+1 puts up their essay “The Rise of the Neuronovel“. It’s available in their most recent issue. Has On the Road aged well? Unpublished Vonnegut finally gets published. Philip Roth is popping up everywhere. Today in the Wall Street Journal. Music The Low Anthem pay tribute to Charles Darwin. Carrie Brownstein picks some of her favorite […]
What’s Your Favorite Patrick Swayze?
by Willa A. Cmiel “What’s your favorite Patrick Swayze movie?…Whatever your answer, it reveals a lot more about you than about Patrick Swayze.” So wisely states Barrelhouse in yesterday’s “The Swayze Question.” It’s true, everyone’s got a Swayze story, and Barrelhouse manages to ask it to a ton of people including Chuck Klosterman (Road House), Emmylou Harris (Ghost), and Malcolm Gladwell (Road House), among many others. Since I can remember, whenever the Swayze’s name has come up in conversation, I […]
Bites: Salman Rushdie as a tiny dancer, pictures of Berlin, John Updike maybe turning in his grave, and the party album of the summer?
“She had heels on, so he only came up to her breasts,” laughs our source. “With her low-cut dress and his bald head, when he’s dancing with her he looks like her third boob.” The above quote was about Salman Rushdie; acclaimed writer, Fatwa dodger, and a man who is not afraid to dance with a taller woman Berlin photo essay @ Impose “Updike was the consummate stylist with a blogger mentality” according to Slate. Is this an insult? Chuck […]