Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to debut as an opera. Happy National Novel Writing Month. Here are six works that were written in under 31 days to serve as inspiration for you. Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot were were penpals. Emma Straub writes about the death of River Phoenix and the effect it had on her for Rookie. Vol. 1’s Jason Diamond hangs out with Gigantic Mag’s James Yeh to listen to the new Real Estate album over at Impose. Stream the Beach Boys SMiLE […]
The 87th year of Truman Capote’s existence
Posted by Jason Diamond Truman Streckfus Persons was born on this day in 1924 in New Orleans. Here is some of the video evidence we could find on the existence of his life.
Jessica Hopper gets cooler every day
I like the kind of mornings where I look at my Google Reader, and Jessica Hopper has a post on her blog titled, “Blur, Reunion, Blur”, and talks nothing about Blur, but makes mention of both John Belushi and Groucho Marx books. I’m excited about this, and I’m excited to remember that I wanted to search Youtube for Blur reunion videos, like the one above.