In this morning’s reading: interviews with Elisa Albert, Brandi Wells, and Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez; checking in with Pussy Riot and Richard Hell; the Young Lions finalists are announced; and more.
A lot of what I’ve read this week has been for pieces to run here or elsewhere, or books that won’t be out for a while. So you’re getting something of a mixed bag: a couple of works by renowned writers; one collection of documents pertaining to a particularly current concern; and one more esoteric piece of prose.
Jody Rosen gives a lesson in outsider British rock; Masha Hamilton makes a playlist; members of Pussy Riot appear in NYC; Nick Moran reflects on Maxwell’s. That and more can be found in this afternoon’s reading.
Russian feminist punk act Pussy Riot today received a sentence of two years in prison, on the old-timey charge of hooliganism, for this. The news came on the same day in which Moscow banned the staging of gay pride parades for the next one hundred years, and in which one of the nation’s favorite sons, chess icon Gary Kasparov, was arrested and allegedly beaten by police while attending a protest of Pussy Riot’s trial.
Death and Taxes writes about our favorite band who we’d consider putting out a 7″ for.
“They were dressed in summery short dresses and tights, but brightly colored balaclavas masked their faces. Dancing frantically to keep warm, they launched into a song that could be delicately titled “Putin Got Scared,” though the lyrics in Russian were ruder than that.” – Pussy Riot, our new favorite band on the planet, gets profiled by NPR. Gary Shteyngart, Douglas Rushkoff, and a bunch of other smart folks weigh in on Facebook $5 billion dollar IPO at Motherboard. At Tablet: Adam […]