Salman Rushdie has pulled out of Jaipur literature festival, saying he fears assassination Muslim clerics protested against his participation. Cannonball Blog reviews Alice Bag’s Violence Girl. How Padgett Powell has written his way out of conventional storytelling. Is Downton Abbey reviving the careers of long dead authors? Dolan Morgan on the mythology of hijacking at Fortnight. (Also, read Dolan’s Sunday Story while you’re at it.) Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr. Got tips for Bites? Info@Vol1brooklyn.com
L.L. Cool S: Ladies Love Salman Rushdie
Posted by Jason Diamond It seems that Salman Rushdie has passed up the chance to make a go of it with Courtney Love, and instead is now a “thing” with Social Life Magazine editor-in-chief Devorah Rose. We only care because Page Six told us. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.
Morning Bites: Hunter S. Thompson treasure trove, Naomi Wolf at OWS, Tim Kinsella, Julian Barnes, and more
How much Hunter S. Thompson can you take? If the answer is, “There is never enough of the insanity!” Playboy has all of the articles that he wrote for the magazine up in one place waiting just for you! Naomi Wolf arrested at Occupy Wall Street. Between beating the crap out of peaceful protestors, arresting Wolf and Cornel West getting cuffed over the weekend, the police seem to be hellbent on making sure that everybody hates them. At The Paris […]
Morning Bites: MacArthur Grants, Live…Suburbia, Salman Rushdie’s tweets, Emma Straub’s tags, and more
A little preview of the very cool book Live… Suburbia!, coming out on Powerhouse Books at the end of the month. Emma Straub wrote something for Rookie that has the tags, 90210, first time, Friday Night Lights, sex, and TV. Upton Sinclair was born on this day in 1887, and so was Jelly Roll Morton, two years earlier, in 1885. Salman Rushdie is on Twitter. No word if he’s following @Qwikster or not. The 2011 MacArthur Genius Grants have been […]
Knowing Somebody in a Salman Rushdie Promo
Posted by Jason Diamond Look, it’s Franz Nicolay playing a mustached bad guy in this promo for Salman Rushdie’s new book, Luka and the Fire of Life.
Does Salman Rushdie Have a Cot at 92Y?
I get the seasonal program catalogs for the 92Y Poetry Center (which I love), and I feel like every single season has at least one event with Salman Rushdie. This time around, he’s speaking on Nov. 22nd. Why is that? Also of note for the 10/11 Season: Paul Auster introduces Israeli writer David Grossman on Oct. 11th Nicole Krauss and Cynthia Ozick on Nov. 8th Jonathan Franzen and Lorrie Moore on Nov. 15th
Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie get Cozy at 92Y
By Todd Krieger I’m a Californian and that’s a confession and a truth all wrapped up in one. It’s pertinent as this is the lens through which I view a conversation with Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie at the 92 Y which may differ slightly than one who dwells in the Five Boroughs. And while both boys most certainly did lay claim to be cunning linguists and there was the requisite literary name-dropping (though no mention of Kingsley), the marked […]
Bites: The Coens Grit, Detesting Eggers, Dennis Cooper on Justin Taylor, Lit. Mystery Spots, and More
The Coen bros are closer to making True Grit a reality. From The Awl: “It’s safe to say that Eggers is currently the most detested man in American haute-literary circles.” Remember that time a bunch of people wanted to kill Salman Rushdie? He’s gonna write a book about it. Dennis Cooper on Justin Taylor. L Magazine reviews Taylor’s Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever. A literary mystery spot at Lit Kicks. Where all all the Jews in John Hughes’ […]