Rick Moody talks about The Feelies at The Rumpus. Little known fact: sometime in the Middle Ages, a blind prophet said that in 2011, the redesigning of cheap IKEA bookshelves would signal the end of books. Dan Sinker (@MayorEmanuel, Punk Planet) does Twitter fiction for Huffington Post Books. The Paris Review talks to Ishmael Reed about Juice!, his first novel in over fifteen years (on the always wonderful Dalkey Archives). Going to Germany to buy books. The Reagan and Nixon […]
Bites: Karen Russell all Over the Place, Remembering Reagan, Spinoza, Rick Moody on Rock Books and More
Karen Russell talks to the Bat Segundo Show about her latest book, Swamplandia! The book was also the cover story for the Sunday Book Review. To celebrate 100 years of Reagan, Mother Jones digs up a 1984 issue that included Kurt Vonnegut, Studs Terkel, Al Franken and a bunch of fantastic artwork that tries to imagine what four more years of The Gipper would hold. “I am putting my money on Spinoza and not on Descartes.” – Commentator for this […]
Weekend Bites: Syd Barrett Biography, Nora Ephron, Fox News Reliable Source, Shteyngart + Moody And More
At Boston Globe: Talking about a new a new Syd Barrett biography. At The New York Times: Nora Ephron is the 69-year-old that I’d most like to hang out with. At The Guardian: Christopher Hitchens may have cancer, but he can still kick Tony Blair’s ass at a debate. At Mediate: Fox News is finally using The Onion as a source. At Beatrice: Shteyngart and Moody to do some sci-fi.
Rick Moody to Rock the Mic With One Ring Zero
Tonight is the night for One Ring Zero to release their newest album, Planets. The song below sounds like Genesis (with Peter Gabriel, not Phil) doing twee pop. It’s aweseome. To celebrate, they’re playing at Joe’s Pub, and they’ve got Rick Moody rocking the backup vocals for them. We heard he’s got a wicked falsetto. Listen: One Ring Zero – “Pluto”
Music Notes: Open Letter to Rick Moody (as a Music Writer), Frankie Rose & the Outs, Guilty Pleasures, and More
1. Dear Rick Moody, Hi. I like you a lot. I like your writing — no, scratch that– I really love your writing. I think you’re tops, and I’d like to say mazel tov on your forthcoming book, The Four Fingers of Death. I need to let you know (not that you care) that I’ve already read one really long book (Witz by Joshua Cohen), and I’m starting another (The Instructions by Adam Levin). Those books are really fricken long […]
Weekend Bites: John Brandon in the Times, Shane Jones Interviewed, Braff Visits the Rebbe, Deserving Rick Moody and More
John Brandon’s Citrus County, reviewed in the New York Times by Daniel Handler An interview with Shane Jones. Dan Chaon on the Bat Segndo Show. Rick Moody’s Five Fingers of Death is a deserved book. Joshua Braf Goes to 770 Eastern Parkway. “I walk into lobbies of untold beauty. I ascend in elevators fit for the gods. Then I walk outside again and see the street defaced by the cruel storefronts of bank branches and mall chains, scornful of beauty.” […]
I saw the Galley for Rick Moody’s Forthcoming Book and it was SO BIG
Seriously. Somebody whipped this out last night and I was like “awww shit that’s a big ass book!” (736 pages)
Today is Electric Literature Friday
1. Scott Lindenbaum of Electric Literature gave us a reading list. Currently reading: The Halfway House by Guillermo Rosales (translated by Anna Kushner) Some really good books: Jernigan by David Gates The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald Distant Star by Robeto Bolano Molloy by Samuel Beckett The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino The Loser by Thomas Bernhard Jerusalem by Goncalo M. Tavares Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail […]