In this morning’s roundup of interesting links: Jim Jarmusch’s band is reviewed, Sarah Polley’s foray into nonfiction filmmaking is discussed; Poe House is slated to reopen to the public; Damon Krukowski talks about champagne; a landmark NYC building is renovated, and much more.
Here are two quotes that sum up my relationship with the game of cricket.
Posted by Jason Diamond Looks like I spoke too soon about Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man not getting the recognition it deserves. Over at Gilt MANual, a tiny bit of love is given to the “acid Western” (as Jarmusch put it), and it’s new Blu-ray treatment.
Posted by Tobias Carroll Generally, whenever music festivals roll around, I’m the grouchy guy on the internet who wishes that more literary events were roped in. These days, music festivals are rarely just about music: film or visual art or some other equally admirable discipline will end up involved as well. Yet, even as certain small presses speak openly about their aesthetic and organizational debt to indie labels, there does seem to be a dearth of cultural exchange between musical […]
Melville House (2009), 103 p. Reviewed by Tobias Carroll Let’s talk deadpan. If you’ve seen Tao Lin read, it’s likely you have a sense of where I’m going with this: there’s an affectless quality to his delivery in the live setting that’s disarming, declaiming surreal scenarios and bizarre occurrences with virtually no outward signs of emotion. Early 2007 saw the release of Lin’s first novel Eeeee Eee Eeee, along with a collection of short stories titled Bed. What was most […]