Afternoon Bites: Sarah Glidden’s Next Book, K Records Lit, Marie-Helene Bertino Interviewed, and More

“Such snapshots are pre-Instagram, but the hazy romanticism that now glosses that world for me came startlingly back to life when I read Love Rock Revolution.” Sarah Dougher reviewed Mark Baumgarten’s Love Rock Revolution for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Sarah Glidden’s Rolling Blackouts: coming next year on Drawn & Quarterly. Martin Douglas’s essay on race and indie rock is fantastic. Walter Kirn on Biblical marginalia. Marie-Helene Bertino, whose Safe As Houses is well worth your time, is interviewed by The Paris Review. Elaine […]

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Bites: Jodorowsky Interview, Amis Worries, Bob Dylan Gets Crazier, New Bolaño Translation, and More

Arthur posted a 2003 interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky.  It’s pretty epic. I think Martin Amis is worried about fading away. Proust, Darwin, and Andy Warhol: all hypochondriacs. First he finds Jesus, then puts out a Christmas album, now, Bob Dylan writes a fucking kids book. Lit Kicks interviews Walter Kirn, who wrote the book that got turned into a movie starring George Clooney. “William Burns” by Roberto Bolaño

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