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Bites: Is New York Bad for Writers?, Should Bookstores Rethink Shelving?, East of Eden as Performance, the Death of the Man of Letters, How to Get Rid of Hipsters, and more
HTMLGiant asks if New York for writers is The Place to Be, or whether it’s just too damn expensive. Lit. Should bookstores shelve by publisher rather than author? (Thanks, The Rumpus) How East of Eden became a performance piece. A surprisingly interesting picture essay of the last 10 years of Nobel Prize winners in literature. The “slow death of the man of letters”? Hm. Shakespeare’s endless Answers: Why it’s smart to be a Shakespearean fool. Books as art. Very cool. […]
Bites: Sendak Retrospective, Amos Oz as Nobel Fav., Is Teaching Shakespeare a Problem?, Af-Pak Reading, Chicago’s Loss, the age-old Polanski debate, and more
First William Blake, now the Wild Things! The Maurice Sendak retrospective opens tomorrow at the Morgan Library. To coincide, the Animazing Gallery presented last Thursday Sendak in SoHo, the world’s largest exhibition & sale of original illustrations from the collection of the legendary artist and author. Lit. Speaking of Where the Wild Things Are, Vice Magazine has a WTWTA blog, which presents work from 24 contributing artists inspired by the story. A little weird because the site is totally in […]
Bites: Boyd Rice, the baseball scene in Ferris Bueller, a Coney Island monument that never was, and more
Boyd Rice went to The Strand, read for about two minutes, and Vice was there to ask him some questions. Conversation Reading is telling me that I really, really need to read Burger’s Daughter. As a fan of the Chicago Cubs, and John Hughes, I totally agree with this. Gothamist tells us all about the “Coney Island’s Globe Tower That Never Was“. Deckfight reviews Zeitoun by Dave Eggers. I vote that An Intelectual History of Cannibalism (Princeton University Press) get […]
Vol. 1 Brooklyn Story Series #1
On Thursday, October 23rd Hexedjournal.com and WORD presents, the hopefully first of many, Vol. 1, a unique event that pairs live music with original stories on a new topic each month. Vol. 1 strives to present both contemporary authors and musicians in evenings that weave the two, too often disparate, groups together. For the first ever Vol. 1, the following authors will each present their own take on “Homecoming”: Our special host Bob Powers is a New York comedian and […]