Afternoon Bites: Steve Erickson talks politics, Mikhail Bulgakov gets unreal, Pam Houston on mentoring, and more
“I came of age when not only Kubrick and Arthur Penn meant more to me than Bellow and Updike (though not necessarily Pynchon and Dick), but Dylan and Ray Charles and the Doors and the Beatles meant more than any of them. ” Lit Reactor interviews Steve Erickson, whose new novel These Dreams of You is out now. Three Guys One Book brings news of Mikhail Bulgakov’s collection Diaboliad & Other Stories: “[T]he perfect remedy for anyone, like myself, who […]
Morning Bites: William Gibson’s future, Jim Carroll Vs. Gil Scott-Heron, Alex Gilvarry, Dirty Three, and more
Zach Baron had heard rumors of a high school football rivalry between Jim Carroll and Gil Scott-Heron. He discusses it at The Daily. Alex Gilvarry talks to NPR about From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant. Edith Wharton: born into wealth, great writer, kinda awkward. Pay attention to this Leonard Cohen kid who has a poem in this week’s New Yorker. He’s gonna be huge. We’re living in William Gibson’s future. The New York Times on Gibson’s Distrust That Particular Flavor. At Slate: Matthew […]
Afternoon Bites: William Gibson, Clarice Lispector, Robert Christgau, and more
Graeme McMillan says a number of smart things about the overlap of music & comics, touching on everything from Phonogram to the Neil Gaiman-written/Alice Cooper-featuring The Last Temptation. McMillan’s new blog The World That’s Coming is also highly recommended for fans of smart music writing. Hey, it’s Robert Christgau’s favorite albums of 2011. William Gibson is interviewed in The Paris Review. Magdalena Edwards on Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star. Victor LaValle contributes to Full Stop’s “The Situation in American Writing” […]