Tennessee Tea Party members want any reference of the founding fathers “intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another.” Jonathan Lethem celebrates Wikipedia’s 10th birthday. Neil Gaiman to appear on The Simpsons. Slavoj Žižek talks Wikileaks. Taking a look at one of Joseph Conrad’s least-read books, The Inheritors
Alan Moore is Another Year Older, Still Awesomer Than Many of Us
What would I do without Neil Gaiman’s Twitter? I don’t think I would have known about this: So yeh, happy birthday Alan Moore (pictured above). Although I’m sure a couple of librarians in Kentucky aren’t celebrating today. Alan’s been busy writing lyrics to an opera with Gorillaz
Bites: Mobycons, Gaiman’s Twitter, The Road, Bo Diddley’s beat, and more
Some guy at NYU “intends to turn all 6,438 sentences of the great Herman Melville (Moby-Dick)opus into Japanese Emoji, rather picturesque emoticons that are on most handsets in Japan.” Lit. Lit Drift talks about Neil Gaiman’s Twitter fiction contest. Melville House named best small press of the year! Maud Newton talks R. Crumb and Chick tract’s. Featherproof Books has an iPhone app. (thanks The Scowl) The Millions gives us a comedic translation of The Road. L Magazine talks to writer […]
Bites: Inglorious Wizerds, Keats on the big screen, Neil Gaiman’s library, Thurston on Gossip Girl, and more
“Dark wizard ain’t got no charms. They’re the foot-soldiers of a muggle-hatin’ mass-murderin’ maniac and they need to be destroyed.” Lit. John Keats gets the big screen treatment (thanks The Millions) Michael Kimball interviews Gary Lutz (Thanks The Faster Times) Well, now we know what Neil Gaiman’s library looks like (Thanks Boing Boing) “Jane Austen is dead. Get over it.” (Thanks Indichik) Deckfight pick their top five Southern novels, and take the ballsy route of excluding any Faulkner. Music “Ah, […]