Tonight is the Franklin Park Reading series. From the press release: Be our Valentine tonight, and we’ll set the mood with candy hearts, romantic cocktails, and $4 pints. You’ll hear funny and poignant love stories from an incredibly talented lineup: literary genius COLSON WHITEHEAD (Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist), acclaimed debut novelist ALISON ESPACH (The Adults), memoirists MIRA PTACIN (Freerange Nonfiction) and MILTON WASHINGTON (Slickyboy), and poet DAVID MCLOGHLIN (Waiting for Saint Brendan). 618 St. Johns Place, between Franklin and Classon […]
Slavoj Žižek Nails It
Posted by Jason Diamond If you didn’t read Slavoj Žiže’s essay over at The Guardian, “Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit?,” you missed this: Western liberals think the only end result of any sort of Arab revolution will lead to either: A) The Taliban taking over. B) A sequel to Iran, 1979.
Bites: Midwestern Books, Deb Olin Unferth Deuce, Céline and More
Midwestern books of the Americanas. (Via) Dueling Deb Olin Unferth interviews at The Rumpus and HTMLGIANT. Céline: Great writer, total scumbag. The Awl takes a look at how the Egyptian revolution could die. Hillary isn’t taking sides. Director Gregg Araki is interviewed.