Afternoon Bites: Mike Watt Gets Literary, Rediscovered Altman, Colbert’s Pop Conference, And More

In today’s literary news surrounding punk rock legends: Three Rooms Press will be releasing on and off bass, a selection of Mike Watt’s tour diaries and photographs, in May. A lost short film directed by Robert Altman has been discovered by filmmaker Gary Huggins. In one of the more surreal moments of television in recent memory, Stephen Colbert talks about the EMP Pop Conference. Then again, he did once book Carl Wilson as a guest… Alexander Chee weighs in on the […]

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Afternoon Bites: Mike Watt, Leonard Cohen, DFW symposium, and more

At The Outlet, Ryan Chang reports on the release party for Ben Marcus’s The Flame Alphabet. On April 5 and 6, the Harry Ransom Center in Austin will be holding a David Foster Wallace symposium. Maura Johnston talks Leonard Cohen. This fall: new Chris Ware. We’re guessing that some of you are looking forward to that one… Mike Watt and Richard Meltzer made an album. This interview with Matthew Wasovich includes references to SST Records, Cleveland punk, Oneida’s Kid Millions, […]

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