New Order’s 18-minute-long Ian Curtis tribute “Elegia” is coming to vinyl. One of Vol.1’s editors is so excited about this that he accidentally bought two copies. Edward Champion reports on a Behind the Book reading featuring Tom Perrotta, Jurgen Fauth, and Mark Leyner. A Roxane Gay essay on The Hunger Games? Yes, we will read that essay. At Hero Complex, Neal Kirby remembers his father. (Who happens to be one Jack Kirby.) Henry Stewart is not enamored with Rex Reed’s approach […]
Afternoon Bites: Chris Andrews on translation, Hot Lit Mags, James Sturm on Jack Kirby, and more
Afternoon links for February 7, ranging from Anne Carson’s “Nox” to James Sturm’s look at the history of Marvel Comics.
Bites: Dick Cheney’s self-interrogation, Jack Kirby, agave as the nectar of the gods, John Darnielle on black metal
Who’s excited about the Dick Cheney memoirs? Anybody? Anybody? Awww come on, I heard there is an entire chapter dedicated to the time he waterboarded himself on accident. “Jack Kirby didn’t get to be an intellectual.” — Warren Ellis on the late Marvel Comics artist/writer/genius Jack Kirby I didn’t even realize that Lowbrow Reader was still around, and I won’t complain. Thanks HTMLGIANT I was seriously worried that John Darnielle had dropped off the face of the earth, but he […]