Lit Breaking! Nerd World scoops EVERYBODY and gets the “terms” that Warner Bros. and the family of J.R.R. Tolkien (above) settled on. Stephen Elliott at The Rumpus on people who have read, who are perpetually reading Bolaño’s 2666. Three Guys One Book review Beg, Borrow, Steal by Michael Greenberg. Boing Boing posts an interview from 1987 with the late Jim Carroll All the cool stuff you didn’t know the Boston Public Library had is going on display. Granta is hitting […]
Bites: The only good Michael Jackson tribute, Philp Roth the new king of pop, visualizing Bolano, and more
And the best tribute to the late Michael Jackson goes to…WFMU! Philip Roth, the dance single “Thirteen microfilm reels of Nabokov’s now-public papers at the Library of Congress include notes on Lolita.” (From Maud Nelson) NPR says that non-fiction can be just as exciting as fiction for your summer reads, and makes my history degree seem a little bit more worth the trouble. Thanks. I was excited when I clicked the Litkicks link to “Bolano’s Savage Detectives visualized“, and really […]