Frank Portman, of one of my favorite pop-punk bands, Mr. T Experience, has a new book out called Andromeda Klein. He gives Largehearted Boy a great playlist for Book Notes. N+1: Not so into zombies/alien films, but likes District 9. Indichik put up an MP3 of Beach Fossils last week. I forgot to mention it, but it’s well worth mentioning considering this guy is putting out some of the best stuff I’ve heard all year. New York Times Book Review […]
Bites: Wild Cupcakes, Kennedy’s do Twitter, Obama is the new Opraha, Marcel Duchamp wasn’t done, and more
Would you rather eat library ice cream or Where the Wild Things Are cupcakes? (Thanks Boing Boing) How indie bookstores are getting customers. (Boston Globe) Yoni Wolf of the band WHY? does vegan food in NYC (Thanks The Young and Hungry) President Obama will sell your book. What do a song off the superb album Superwolf by Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeny, Iron and Wine, and Vashti Bunyan all have in common? Daniel Kraus, author of The Monster Variations […]
Bites: Bill and Malcolm, Les Paul, punk rock names, McSweeney’s likes prog rock, and more
I read one of the same blogs as Bill Clinton? Cool! Bill Clinton likes Malcolm Gladwell? Okay… That’s cool too! (I think?) I think if Largehearted Boy was meant to ask anybody their playlist, it would have to be the founder of Gigposters.com, Clay Hayes. Today he did just that. Yeh, we aren’t crazy about guns either. Chicago Sun Times on the passing of Les Paul. Carrie Brownstein of Monitor Mix on “Punk Rock Monikers“ You should always care about […]
Bites: Mapping Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, clamping down on the free wi-fi, Akron/Family
It seems appropriate to start this off with HTMLGIANT picking “Favorite First Sentences“ Papercuts points out that Thomas Pynchon is in fact, from the East Coast, and there needs to be an interactive map of Pynchon’s New York in response to the interactive map of LA that Wired provided us with last month. While some people are spending their summer reading Infinite Jest, Conversational Reading is working on “Westward the Course of the Empires Takes it’s Way”, and says it’s […]
Bites: John David California, Peter Terzian, Jeff Buckley oral history, St. Vincent in a graveyard,
In an interview with The Village Voice, Frederick Colting, aka John David California, appears a little too innocent. The writer, who is being sued by J.D. Salinger, claims his novel is a modern-day Frankenstein. Colting doesn’t further elaborate as to thematic or genre-bending similarities to Mary Shelley’s Prometheus, but he does equate Salinger, that infamously reclusive and libel-minded writer, to the infamously bratty character of Holden Caulfield. “Holden acts like the entire world revolves around him. And, in a way, […]