I didn’t think it was possible, but I think I may have found my favorite awful library book. Lit. The interactive Proust questionnaire over at Vanity Fair. NBA star Steve Nash and Cormac McCarthy discussed in this article. Appreciation for Alan Moore’s brilliant graphic novel, From Hell. Three Guys One Book show love for Emily St. John Mandel. Al Gore: Poet. The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn talks about writing the adaptation to Klosterman’s Fargo Rock City. Robert Birnbaum discusses Will […]
Bites: Bukowski, the death of print, Julia Wertz, WFMU
The Rumpus has published a previously unpublished forward by Charles Bukowski. Speaking of poetry, if you’ve published some, you can apply to live in Robert Frost’s farmhouse for two months next summer, and hope for osmosis. Is everyone reading Little Dorrit right now? Ann Kirschner of The Chronicle Review uses multiple text formats (four of them, actually). WP Book World’s Short Stack notes the connection between Dickens scoundrel Mr. Merdle to our 21st-century’s Mr. Madoff. Is print news really dying, […]