The Rumpus says of Jack Kerouac that “you’d be pressed to find a more quoted, misunderstood, revered, and culturally significant icon of the latter half of the 20th century.” Yeh.
Lit.
- Fictionaut founder Juumlrgen Fauth is interviewed over at AgencySpy.
- Celebrity memoirs: Good for the publishing industry, useless otherwise.
- Jonathan Safran Foer is going after the big meatheads.
- Gore Vidal just sits there.
- Happy birthday Terry Southern. (Thanks Arthur)
- Bellevue Literary Review’s Fall issue is out.
Music
- Xiu Xiu is back!
- A quick history lesson on Dave Brubeck’s classic, “Take Five”
- Peter Gabriel covering Arcade Fire and Radiohead? Uhhh.
- Largehearted Boy is keeping track of all the “best of” lists.
2 more days till Halloween
- A Ghostbuster talks about ghosts.
- Spooky books for fireside nights.
- Chicago Tribune asks the citizens of their city to write some ghost stories.
- Dennis Cooper has been getting into the spirit.
- Ghostwriting! Spooooooky.