Posted by Jason Diamond Malcolm Gladwell and Mark Wahlberg are teaming up to bring a new spy show on HBO. Yes, you read that right: Donnie Wahlberg’s brother and Sideshow Bob are making a television show together.
Dick Watching: The Crotch
Posted by Juliet Linderman Hey there dick watchers and welcome to Friday, which lovingly holds hands with everyone’s favorite Moby Dick-related link list, Dick Watching. So welcome to it, and let’s get on with it!
Tuesday Stuff: Liu Xiaobo’s Prison Food, Solomon Burke, Coffee Wars, Free Andy Borowitz and More
The Atlantic remembers Solomon Burke. Celebrity treatment in a Chinese jail means that Xiaobo would be served individually served meals instead of “a portion of food cooked in a large pot for many prisoners.” Stephen Elliott on the San Francisco coffee wars. Andy Borowitz is doing two free live shows tonight. Here are the details from an e-mail he sent out: As a special thank-you to Borowitz Report readers, I’ve scheduled two last-minute free shows Tuesday night October 12 in […]
Dick Watching: The Dying Whale
Posted by Juliet Linderman Hey there dicksters, welcome to Friday and in turn, welcome to Dick Watching, bringing you all the sexiest (Moby) Dick-related news and gossip, from across the switchboards. All aboard!
Volumizer: The Week in Books, 10/3 – 10/9
VOLUMIZER: THE WEEK IN BOOKS, 10/3 – 10/9 Posted by Nick Curley Having spent the last several months baffled as to where to go for a comprehensive yet pocket-sized digest of the day’s tomes-of-the-moment, I decided to draft one myself. I’ll keep this up weekly for as long as it continues to entertain me and prove no burden. All books are fair game, including those newly reprinted. To drop a dime about your new release or someone else’s, send all […]
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Good Links to Wake up to: Superchunk on NPR, Lorie Moore at NYer Festival, Celebrity Chekov and More
At NPR: Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan at Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me. At The Rumpus: Elissa Bassist took some notes on Lorie Moore speaking at the New Yorker Festival. At The New York Times: Wishing Flaubert was still alive to read the Lydia Davis translation of Madame Bovary. At Big Other: Pretty psyched about the Wednesday event at the Center for Fiction. At Speakeasy: Ben Greenman gives us some Celebrity Chekov. Alex Ross calls The Social Network “mesmerizing”
Midweek Roundup: Hans Keilson, Knitting, David Foster Wallace Archives, Hootie Monument, and More
Alfred A. Knopf gets into the knitting game.