Jamie Iredell’s previous books, Prose. Poems. A Novel and The Book of Freaks, have long been favorites around these parts. Now, he’s returned with an essay collection on Future Tense with the amazing title I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac. On Tuesday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting Iredell, along with John Dermot Woods and Hugh Sheehy, at Book Thug Nation.
At Grantland, Chuck Klosterman looks at the documentary Room 237. At The AV Club, Noel Murray looks at the growing world of YA comics. “We can write about music that’s hundreds of years old or an album that’s coming out next week; go to the Taylor Swift concert or dig deep into Swedish death-metal. Our work will be limited only by our writers’ curiosity and passion.” UNCOOL sounds quite promising. Tom McGeveran remembers growing up on Roosevelt Island. The guys behind the […]
Of course Charlie Sheen put out a book of poetry. Of course he did. Jamie Iredell gives Largehearted Boy a playlist for his latest book, The Book of Freaks. James Yeh takes a look at some of his favorite highlights from Open City Magazine. Stephen King’s going to write a novel about the JFK assassination. Aldous Huxley’s children’s book is re-published. Blade Runner 2. This sounds like a really awful idea.
Posted by Tobias Carroll Last year, we reviewed Jamie Iredell’s Prose. Poems. A novel. Iredell’s next work, The Book of Freaks, will be out soon via the excellent Future Tense Publishing, and the fine people at THE2NDHAND have an excerpt running in their latest broadside.
Orange Alert Press, 2009, 108 p. Review by Tobias Carroll Title explains form in Jamie Iredell’s Prose. Poems. A novel. It’s a bold choice, and one that seems to suggest a sort of literary gamesmanship, a salvo in the form-versus-content battle, delivered in favor of the former. That the book opens with a epigraph from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, followed shortly by the author describing himself as “[a] whiskered goon at a notepad” should indicate otherwise. Through […]
Over at MobyLives, they talk about Glenn Beck being the new Oprah for a bunch of writers we could really care less about. We wonder to ourselves if this post was just a genius ploy by Melville House to get Beck to notice Shoplifting From American Apparel? Lit. Daniel Nester and Vol. 1 Brooklyn contributor Claire Shefchik make nice after Shefchik reviews his book. We think everything is going to be okay. James Wood talks about Thomas Pynchon’s characters. Conversational […]