Fiction from Antal Szerb; an interview with Lydia Lunch; footage of Converge at St. Vitus; thoughts on book dedications; and much more can be found in our afternoon reading for this Wednesday.
The third edition of How Was Your Week? Live, recorded last night at The Bell House in Gowanus, Brooklyn, will premiere as an episode of the show’s typical podcast format in the weeks to come. In the interest of not letting the proverbial Youtube cat video out of the bag, or spoiling the show for its brightly colored carousel of fans, I will here keep my spoilerish thoughts about last night’s festivities to a minimum. I tend to avoid writing […]
A restaurant named after one of Pushkin’s characters opens up in the West Village. Maybe Kate Christensen can check it out and write it up for her new food blog? Etgar Keret writes a Christmas card for Electric Literature. Jennifer Egan and books on mini farming: A.N. Devers year in reading at The Millions. Willa Paskin at Vulture points us to Helen DeWitt’s blog for her response to Michael H. Miller’s Observer profile on the Lightning Rods author. Julie Klausner talks to Popcandy. […]
Our new hero is this lady who lives her life dressed like Charlotte Brontë. Do you want to buy stuff Miranda July bought off Craigslist? Lydia Lunch meets Dominique Strauss Kahn in a purely fictional way at 3: AM Magazine. Julie Klausner talks about the most Jewish episodes of her How Was Your Week? podcast. Barack Obama: fan of indie bookstores. Joseph Stalin’s daughter passed away at the age of 85. Scott Walker is doing a bang up job in Wisconsin. (No […]
NBC picked up the show Apocalipstick, which will be written and produced by the very talented Julie Klausner. The Hairpin breaks down how to write romance novels. Fixating on a Willa Cather sentence. Joseph Heller didn’t mind war that much. Steve Martin, Gillian Welch, and Ed Helms in a bluegrass mockumentary is probably the best thing of the day. Tom Waits is interviewed while sitting in a barber shop. Can somebody please front us the money to buy John Hughes’ former […]
Tonight is the Franklin Park Reading series. From the press release: Be our Valentine tonight, and we’ll set the mood with candy hearts, romantic cocktails, and $4 pints. You’ll hear funny and poignant love stories from an incredibly talented lineup: literary genius COLSON WHITEHEAD (Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist), acclaimed debut novelist ALISON ESPACH (The Adults), memoirists MIRA PTACIN (Freerange Nonfiction) and MILTON WASHINGTON (Slickyboy), and poet DAVID MCLOGHLIN (Waiting for Saint Brendan). 618 St. Johns Place, between Franklin and Classon […]
Julie Klausner’s memoir, I Don’t Care About Your Band, is going to HBO. Eh? “without Sex and the City, there would arguably have been no Emily Gould“ Making Les Mis into the next Twilight. Books to the Ceiling give us their midyear roundup. Gary Shteyngart on the Yidlit podcast. College kids being investigated in Wikileaks leak.