Over at a popular social networking site, Alex B. Fredericks of Slice Magazine got me thinking about literary/celebrity/minor celebrity mix ups: No longer will I talk to others about John Ashbery and fuck it up and say John Berryman. Starting Saturday, I will talk to John Ashbery and fuck it up and say John Berryman. I have one of these. I sometimes mix up John Cheever with a hockey goalie (who retired before I was born) from the 70s named […]
John Cheever Hooked Molly Ringwald Up
In the thanks to “Getting the Pretty Back,” the long-deceased John Cheever makes a surprise appearance. “Not only for reminding us of the ‘salvation of prose,’ ” she writes, “but for inadvertently and fortuitously leading me to my husband through the elegance of his prose.” Ringwald’s husband is a writer and editor; quotes from Cheever are included in Ringwald’s book, with his estate’s permission. (Via Jacket Copy)
Passover Bites: Franzen’s Cover, Warhol’s Pals, Cheever’s Story, Atwood’s Addiction, Kerman’s Excerpt, Neil Young on Skype, and More
Jonathan Franzen has a new novel coming out and The Millions show us the cover. The New Republic posted a John Cheever story from 1936. Margaret Atwood might need a Twitter intervention. Levi Asher on Reality Hunger. An excerpt from Piper Kerman’s book, Orange is the New Black. Andy Warhol had a lot of friends that he took pictures of. Neil Young, Jonathan Demme, and Skype. Titus Andronicus and rock from New Jersey. Bluto, Otter, D-Day, Boehner, Cantor, Brown, and […]
Weekend Bites: Sam Lipsyte to Tour With LCD Soundsystem?, Eno on Uncool, Harry Smith, Cheever’s Biography, Airplanes Saving Magazines, and More
Next time we do bites, the Rick Moody/Electric Literature Twitter Fiction project shall begin. Sam Lipsyte and LCD Soundsystem on the road together in 2010? Over at Drowned in Sound, James Murphy considers it. Reading the new Sam Lipsyte novel “the ask” now, which comes out around the time the LCD record does, so maybe we could have the most absurdly awkward co-headlining tour together… Brixton and bookstores?? New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year. Even though the […]