A roundup of things consumed by our contributors. Tobias Carroll With an eye towards increasing my tally of nonfiction consumed in 2011, I read Peter Hessler’s River Town. (Much like Jason last week, I must tip my hat in the direction of the Bookavore-originating recommendation.) I found it to be a fascinating account of a small city in China, wedding a candid account of his time there as a teacher with passages that give a deeper history of the region and nation around […]
Morning Bites: Geoff Dyer Mexican Standoff, Philip Roth Profiled, Bill Murray, And More
Luc Sante on Geoff Dyer at Bookforum. Scott Esposito on Luc Sante on Geoff Dyer at Conversational Reading. Profiling the entire career of Philip Roth in just under 300 words. We live in magical times when Bill Murray plays FDR. L Magazine talks to The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Jim Henson’s 1969 pilot for “The Wizard of Id.” How did this not become a show?
Indexing: Adam Ross, Emily St. John Mandel, the Ace Hotel, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, and so much more!
Our weekly series where Vol. 1 editors talk about what they’re reading, listening to and watching. Juliet Linderman I was lucky enough to scam a galley of Justin Taylor’s forthcoming book and first novel The Gospel of Anarchy a few weeks ago after our Vol. 1 November reading, and I read it in a flash. Yeah yeah yeah, Justin Taylor is a good friend of Vol. 1, but even if he wasn’t I’d still have to say: Damn. Dude can […]
Luc Sante has a better bio than you.
We were tipped off to this (but hardly surprised) via a Tweet from Jessica Hopper. It sort of gives credence to the theory that anything you can do, Luc Sante could just flash his bio to you and say “been there, done that shit.”
Upstate: Hunt, Sante, Tesla, Records
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 […]
ICP Give Luc Sante Award; Officially Our #1 Juggalo
Oh, that’s the International Center of Photography, not the brilliant minds that gave us the “Miracles.” Sorry Mr. Sante.
Luc Sante on “Reality Hunger”
“Narrative gives way to wisdom” -Luc Sante at the Times Book Review podcast on David Shields’s “manifesto”, Reality Hunger.
Weekend Bites: Gawking at the Premier of Shutter Island, Flannery O’Connor’s Pad, Sante’s Photographs, Hot Librarians, Henry Miller Wakes up, and More
Olive Reader hangs out with Shutter Island writer Dennis Lehane’s publicist , and she tells us what it was like to go to a big time movie premiere. Let’s take a trip to Flannery O’Connor’s old house. N+1 discusses hockey. Boing Boing discusses Luc Sante’s wonderful Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard 1905-1930. Henry Miller’s bathroom. Salon discusses hot librarians. Emdashes on The Collected Essays of St. Clair McKelway The woman who loved Stieg Larson. Jackie Kennedy: Socialist Pukekos does […]