Amy Sedaris has her own YouTube channel. I know, I know: it’s Poe’s birthday. But Poe has a birthday every year. Amy Sedaris having a new YouTube channel where she makes crafts and gives us weird food recipes happens just once. And yes, today is Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday. Huffington Post rounds up the best of Poe popping up in pop culture. The Poe Toaster didn’t show up again this year. Over at Tablet, Adam Kirsch talks about I.J. Singer’s […]
Bites: David Berman’s Blog, Neal Cassady, David Foster Wallace on the Internet and More
Posted by Jason Diamond Today’s news is brought to you by the kosher salt I had to use throw in front of me as I tried to climb down my stoop that was covered in ice. Kosher salt: God wants you to use it. David Berman (above) has a blog. There is a pretty good chance the former Silver Jew has kosher salt in his kitchen. According to The Guardian, Neal Cassady took drugs, was a bigamist and an all […]
Bites: Chekhov’s Sweet Birthday, Emma Straub a Hit, and Geoff Dyer in Utah
Today is the 15oth birthday of Anton Chekhov. Also Anna Bronte, Benjamin Franklin, Al Capone, Muhammad Ali, Andy Kaufman, and a bunch of other people were born on January 17th. Emma Straub (and her upcoming book release on January 27th) gets a pop in the New York Post. Finally! The best beards in literature and the best beards ever sported by writers. Why did this take so long? (Thanks 3:Am Magazine for the tip.) Geoff Dyer goes to Utah…and writes […]
Dick Watching: The Musket
Posted by Juliet Linderman Hey dudes and dudettes, ladies and germs, cetaceans and crustaceans, and welcome back to Dick Watching on Vol. 1, where we bring you a boatload of news about wonderful, wonderful whales. You guys ready to take the plunge?
Bites: Tea Party Textbooks, Lethem on Wikipedia, Gaiman on The Simpsons, Žižek on WikiLeaks and More
Tennessee Tea Party members want any reference of the founding fathers “intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another.” Jonathan Lethem celebrates Wikipedia’s 10th birthday. Neil Gaiman to appear on The Simpsons. Slavoj Žižek talks Wikileaks. Taking a look at one of Joseph Conrad’s least-read books, The Inheritors
Bites: Catcher in the Rye “Sequel” Banned in the US and Borders to Crawl Today
At The BBC: Swedish author Fredrik Colting’s “Sequel” to Catcher in the Rye is officially banned in the US and Canada. At The Guardian: In the UK, they think the sequel might be a good idea. At MobyLives: Borders to do some crawling today.
New York Times gets Back to Reporting About Old People in Brooklyn
Posted by Jason Diamond In the wake of Briangate – where popular NBC anchor Brian Williams made fun of The New York Times for their “Brooklyn fetish”– the venerable newspaper has decided to stop focusing on young’‘hipsters’ who drink fair trade coffee, have trust funds, use interesting slang, attend D.I.Y. shows; or people who are Tao Lin.
Bites: Questioning R. Crumb, Moby Dick Marathon, Books About Dead Writers and More
At The Guardian: Writer Daniel Kalder thinks Robert Crumb is “hardly worthy of his current status as a god of the literary underground.” At MobyLives: Taking a look at the Moby Dick Marathon. At Flavorwire: 2011 is becoming the years of books about beloved bygone writers like Kurt Vonnegut and Elizabeth Bishop. At The Forward: You really can’t go wrong with a title like “Pierre Dac, a Humorist in the French Resistance.” At Splitsider: Amazing stand-up guy/former SNL writer, Hannibal […]