By Willa A. Cmiel The Book Bench posted an interview with Dave Eggers today and this week’s New Yorker story, “Max At Sea,” will be an excerpt from Eggers’ upcoming novelization, The Wild Things, which, besides being available covered in fur, is written in preparation for/conjunction with/compliment to the upcoming film Where the Wild Things Are, which is an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s timeless children’s story of the same name. Whew! How is it that Dave Eggers is the only […]
Bites: Love in a bookstore, guest reviewers, book swaps, another one biting the dust, and more.
I want to wake up to a song like this every Monday morning. If you want to find love, maybe try going to our favorite Greenpoint bookstore. Scenes from the Goodreads bookswap. (Thanks Jacketcopy) On Litkicks, Levi Asher lets another guest review the Review, and they lead off with one of our favorite subjects, Dave Eggers. We lost Les Paul the other day, and now, Jim Dickinson – an unsung hero of southern rock – has also passed away.
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 […]
Bites: Fitzgerald’s penis, remembering Frank McCourt, Dave Eggers is popular, mad props, and Huxley on vacation
“if a descendant of F. Scott Fitzgerald demands the removal of the chapter in “A Moveable Feast” about the size of Fitzgerald’s penis…” There is more controversy about Scribner letting Hemingway’s grandson rework A Moveable Feast, and it has yielded that great quote above. Salon remembers Frank McCourt. Time interviews Dave Eggers. John Darnielle gives mad props to Brandon Stousy’s metal column over at Pitchfork. I love the title “Huxley packed light and would’ve love-hated the internet“. Tobias at The […]
Bites: Peeking into Zeitoun, Dennis Johnson, battle of the powerblogs, new Bowerbirds
McSweeney’s has bestowed upon us an excerpt from the upcoming Dave Eggers novel Zeitoun. People are happy, and I’m sure some people could care less. We are not part of the latter crowd. Robert Brinbaum on Dennis Johnson’s Nobody Move. Gawker talks to the Editor-At-Large of the new “Huffington Post meets Gawker” website, Mediaite. Is this what happens when worlds collide? Nah. It’s more on the awkward side, especially when Gawker mentions there might be a “conflict of interest in […]
Bites: Taschen, Dave Eggers is busy, Egon Spangler, Antony)
Got a thousand bucks to blow? Taschen is putting out their most expensive book in five years, and it’s none other than Norman Mailer’s first posthumous work Norman Mailer, MoonFire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11. If you want a more creative way to blow a grand, I have this really interesting business project called Vol. 1 Brooklyn that could use some funds. Paper Cuts asks if “Dave Eggers is the busiest man in literature?” We would like to answer […]
Bites: Dave Eggers preorder, Tao Lin tackles Herzog, New England lit. Bowerbirds, reading rappers, James Franco, classic albums
That ol’ rascal Dave Eggers has got (as broken down by a user comment on this site) a book coming out that’s a novelization of a movie that is based off a book. Or something along those lines. Either way, you can preorder the book starting now. On his blog, Tao Lin reviews Werner Herzog’s Land of Silence and Darkness. Moby-Dick is #1, The Bell Jar #4, Walden #12 (me: “wtf, #12? That’s it?”), and The Crucible is #43 in […]
Dave Eggers will buck you up
Dave Eggers should change his name to Dave Motherfucking Eggers, because he is sort of like a literary Steve McQueen. If you need any evidence as to why, The New Yorker transcribes his speech at the Author’s Guild party and you will understand what I’m talking about: “Nothing has changed! The written word—the love of it and the power of the written word—it hasn’t changed. It’s a matter of fostering it, fertilizing it, not giving up on it, and having […]