1. Bunny Munro television mini-series? 2. Track listing for Grinderman 2 is released along with teaser videos for first single: 1) Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man 2) Worm Tamer 3) Heathen Child 4) When My Baby Comes 5) What I Know 6) Evil 7) Kitchenette 8) Palaces of Montezuma 9) Bellringer Blues
Me and Bunny Munro, Several Months Later
Last October, I shared some thoughts on Nick Cave’s novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, from the point of view of a person who’s been a Cave fan for 15+ years. he has written a pretty good story, but 278 pages chronicling the life of a piece of human garbage gets old faster than a three minute song. Now, as I sit here with the sun shining into my room — opposed to the choking gray of Autumn — I’m […]
The Verdict on Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux (2009), 278 p. Reviewed by Willa A. Cmiel and Jason Diamond When deciding who at Vol. 1 should review musician Nick Cave’s new novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, the following questions came to mind: 1. Who really got excited about Nick Cave putting out his second book, The Death of Bunny Munro? 2. Does Nick Cave have that large of a following that Bunny Munro could be considered a literary event? Even after his last […]
Bites: Levi Johnston broken down, Good writing cafes, Nick Cave and iPhones, Stephen Elliott, good uses for vodka, and more
The Awl breaks down Levi Johnston’s Vanity Fair article. Grub Street picks our beloved Think Coffee and Housing Works as two of the best New York cafes for writing. Nick Cave wants you to have his upcoming book, The Death of Bunny Munro, on your iPhone. Salon talks to Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries McSweeney’s gives us fifteen uses for vodka. Jay-Z is into this “indie rock movement”, and thinks big things of Grizzly Bear. An interview […]