Philip Glass talks about writing music for films, Mitchell S. Jackson talks to The Paris Review, a guide to the LA Art Book Fair, and more.
This afternoon: a look at Paul Auster’s latest, thoughts on the twentieth anniversary of The X-Files, Justin Taylor provides some literary recommendations, and more.
As part of the Books Beneath the Bridge at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Community Bookstore and Vol. 1 Brooklyn will be celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way.
In this interview with Terry Gilliam, the director mentions that he has plans to adapt Paul Auster’s Mr. Vertigo. Which is something we’d gladly shell out $13 for. Hobart‘s annual baseball issue is out, and includes notable literary types (Rick Moody! Stewart O’Nan! Owen King!) predicting the 2012 season. Chris Sims looks at the uncanny parallels between Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight and The Hunger Games. Andrey Kurkov talks penguins. Would you like to see a list of rejected titles for […]
In today’s morning news: a bunch of great people dies yesterday, Paul Auster goes up agains the Turkish PM, a leper colony rots away, and much more.
Posted by Nick Curley Thumbing through the new Paul Auster novel he’d finished that morning, the reviewer’s fingers tap danced on the protagonist’s name: Miles Heller. The pairing evoked a kind of jazzy Catch-22. Such was Auster’s nature in this new book, Sunset Park: long sentences, simple words, referential and feigning depth, but ultimately stuck with mere sketches of characters and a meretricious climax.
At The Daily Beast: The 21st Century Sherlock on Masterpiece Mystery. At The New York Times: The Paris Review opens up it’s archives. At Telegraph: Paul Auster’s Sunset park is reviewed: “While there are moments of intensity, beauty even, these are fleeting, bright flashes, like silver fish in a grey and weltering sea.” At Flavorwire: Citing that James Franco’s “Cultural Ubiquity Tour must roll on,” a video of the actor, writer, student in sixteen MFA programs, as Bruce Nauman. At […]
At Jacket Copy: WOAH! Sparks (pictured above in the 70s) did the new theme song for Bookworm! At 3:AM Magazine: Philip Roth/Paul Auster death battle. At Jewcy: An interview with Adam Langer. At The Awl: Dudes from a NYC bookstore debate over Freedom. At Big Other: “I feel more regurgitation than genuine writing.” – On Richard Yates, by Tao Lin At the Telegraph: Will Self hanging out at the gym. At Brooklyn Vegan: Built to Spill on a boat. At […]