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 […]
Afternoon Bites: Warren Ellis, Tim Kinsella, Oneida, and more
“There was no decision to be made if it was set in a bar; it was a question of where adults interact. Most adults are living cloistered lives in seclusion. They cross paths at bars. ” At The AV Club, Nicki Yowell interviews Tim Kinsella on his new novel, The Karaoke Singer’s Guide to Self-Defense. Also mentioned: the novel he’s working on now. Warren Ellis delivers an essay on digital distribution of comics, longform serialization, and more. Mentioned: his own Freakangels; […]
Indexing: Jet-lag literature, Nabokov, The Believer, Edith Wharton, and more
Tobias Carroll And lo: there was the literature of jet-lag. The second time around, the strengths of William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition remained intact: haunted characters and a pinpoint command of culture. Its flaws — notably, a conclusion that effectively sidelines the novel’s protagonist — remained present. And still, Pattern Recognition may well be my favorite of Gibson’s books: a morally resonant, deeply contemporary thriller that hits nearly all of my sweet spots. (Mysterious films, subcultural intrigue, globetrotting.) Were I fond of […]
Tim Kinsella, Novelist.
Posted by Tobias Carroll It shouldn’t come as a shock that Tim Kinsella had a novel in him. Ever since the Cap’n Jazz days, the man’s had a fondness for verbally dense lyrics that manipulated language in ways equally cerebral and playful — qualities useful in both a prose stylist and an art-punk vocalist. Now comes the news that Chicago’s featherproof books will release Kinsella’s first novel, The Karaoke Singer’s Guide to Self-Defense, this fall. The description refers to it […]