Antony’s Art Book

We should have figured after Antony Hegarty did the artwork for Zoetrope, more was on the way.  P4K reports: “new album Swanlights is out October 5 in Europe on Rough Trade and a day later in the U.S. via Secretly Canadian. Art book publisher Abrams will release a special edition of the album accompanied by a 144-page tome featuring paintings, collages, photography, and writing by Antony.”

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Non Gender-Biased Dudes of the Year

Sure, Ben Bernake won Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year”, but who should win our prestigious “Non Gender-Biased Dude of the Year” award for 2009? Dave Eggers Our pals at Deckfight pointed out our penchant for news involving Mr. McSweeney’s, but why not? The dude is a mensch. Jason Schwartzman Chalk it up to family ties, but his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, tapped him to design the newest issue of Zoetrope: All-Story. Also of note: Could anybody other than Schwartzman […]

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Bites: Lord Byron knows what women want, (un)successful indie ventures, and Zoetrope in wine country

Hilarious found library books website Awful Library Books goes totally un-PC. Repeat after me: This is not funny, this is not funny, this is not funny. (…Yes, it’s hilarious.) Books bound in human skin? Literary cannibalism, or something. Critical Mass outlines the launch party for the summer issue of Zoetrope at the Francis Ford Coppola Wineries. “Lit mag launch, Sonoma Style.” Last week, Vol. 1 reviews the issue here, Brooklyn style. We’re still hearing buzz about Electric Literature, a new, […]

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The Green Fairy Wants You to Read This Summer’s Zoetrope

This issue’s artwork is done by the ultimately talented musician/artist Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. (In a conversation he has surely forgotten, Antony once told me of the time Cat Power pecked him on the lips at a show. He followed his story with something along the lines of “I’m gay as they come, but I asked her to marry me anyway.”) This spring, Antony curated a group show in Beaubourg, Paris called Six Eyes at the Galerie du […]

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Bites: Taschen, Dave Eggers is busy, Egon Spangler, Antony)

Got a thousand bucks to blow? Taschen is putting out their most expensive book in five years, and it’s none other than Norman Mailer’s first posthumous work Norman Mailer, MoonFire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11. If you want a more creative way to blow a grand, I have this really interesting business project called Vol. 1 Brooklyn that could use some funds. Paper Cuts asks if “Dave Eggers is the busiest man in literature?” We would like to answer […]

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