Thoughts on the new Jawbreaker reissue, writing from Molly Rose Quinn, Lynn Lurie, and Susannah Felts, thoughts on hybrid works using text and images, and more.
Giant Robot chatted with Blake Schwarzenbach about reissuing Jawbreaker’s Chesterfield King and Bivouac. “I am a Dutch-German-Hungarian-Polish-Russian-Jewish-American woman. Yet every December, I turn into a 19th-century British gentleman.” Rosie Schaap on wassail. Hobart gives you an in-depth look at the Denny’s Hobbit menu. Kathleen Alcott and Patrick Somerville chatted at BOMB. Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading has an excerpt up from Dan Josefson’s That’s Not a Feeling. At Bookforum: Ruth Franklin on Madeleine L’Engle. SPIN looks at the videos of Tom Scharpling. The How-To […]
As a tribute to tonight’s discussion, The Future of What?: A Panel on Punk in the 1990s, I present my personal top 5 favorite lyrics from 90’s punk songs.
Harper Perennial,( 2010) 208 p. Review by Tobias Carroll Halfway through “Estrellas y Rascacielos,” the third story in Justin Taylor’s collection Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever, there’s an exchange of dialogue that’s at once unexpected and critically important to what follows, both for that story and the rest of the book. The scene is a anarchists’ party at a punk house, where stolen beer is imbibed and ideologically inconsistent tomes sentenced to burn. In one corner, a conversation […]