Giving Idiocy Its Due: “The Lowbrow Reader Reader” Reviewed

The Lowbrow Reader Reader Edited by Jay Ruttenberg Drag City Books; 297 p. I won’t speak for everyone, but I can say on solid footing that I take the Internet and its hivemind for granted. Recently I revisited the cult TV show Freaks and Geeks, and I began to think that my cockeyed view of the show’s significance is likely born out of spending a lot of time online, where there are numerous opportunities to extol the virtues of basically […]

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Morning Bites: We Know Who Dear Sugar Is, Jeremy Lin Magical Realism, Tintin Returns, And More

“Book designer and metal type master Russell Maret has begun a fundraising campaign on Kickstarterto try to raise $25,000 to have Micah Currier engrave and cast a new proprietary metal type family at the Dale Guild Type Foundry.” – Via Imprint. Sugar is revealed!  Sally Errico at The New Yorker talks to Cheryl Strayed about being the mysterious advice giver on The Rumpus. Deborah Eisenberg and Wallace Shawn read Gregor von Rezzori’s An Ermine in Czernopol at the Center for Fiction on February 22nd. […]

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