Fantagraphic always puts out the best stuff. According to Flavorwire: Beat author William S. Burroughs has a long-lost graphic novel called Ah Pook Is Here, and it will be published in 2011 by Fantagraphics Books. Burroughs, author of the Naked Lunch, teamed up with British cartoonist and painter Malcolm McNeill in 1970 to create The Unspeakable Mr. Hart for the British magazine Cyclops. When the magazine folded, the duo put together what they called a “Word/Image novel” (the term “graphic novel” had […]
Monday Stuff: Nick Cave, Jon Stewart, Superchunk, The Rumpus Take Over Brooklyn
At New York Magazine, New York Magazine hits it right on the head with the title for the Jon Stewart/Daily Show profile, “America is a Joke“: “Jon has chronicled the death of shame in politics and journalism,” says Brian Williams, the NBC Nightly News anchor who is a frequent Daily Show guest. “Many of us on this side of the journalism tracks often wish we were on Jon’s side. I envy his platform to shout from the mountaintop. He’s a […]
Weekend Bites: Allen Ginsberg/Arthur Russell Record, Thomas Guinzberg, Joshua Cohen on Tao Lin,Todd Levin, and More
Arthur Russell recordings from 1977, featuring Allen Ginsberg, have been unearthed and will be released on Press Pop Gallery in October. At L Magazine: Thomas Guinzberg, 1926-2010 At Bookforum: Joshua Cohen reviews Tao Lin’s Richard Yates. At Splitsider: Todd Levin talks about his new book, Our Bodies, Our Junk. At MobyLives: The dudes putting on Brooklyn Book Festival. At Jacket Copy: George W. Bush AND Sarah Palin both have books coming out this Fall. Are you as excited as we […]
Minus the Joan Didion Talk and Fabulousness
I can’t really fault Lauren Leto for figuring out how to become a millionaire by getting other people to post about their personal text messages, and her stereotyping people by what they read thing was pretty hilarious. I wish I was funny and had a million dollars. I think all the Joan Didion talk in her interview with Capital New York was a little unnecessary. Also, anything labeled as “fabulous” still makes me want to vomit, but otherwise go Lauren! […]
Weekend Bites: Rachel Shukert: Zionist Conspiracy, Mad Men Books, Alex Trebek is 70, and More
Rachel Shukert: total Zionist to the max. Three Guys One Book talk to Natasha Vargas-Cooper, author of Mad Men Unbuttoned. Alex Trebek is seventy? What? The Daily Beast talks about Marc Bolan. “Allah Right by Me“
Weekend Bites: Hans Keilson, Letters From Vonnegut, Kafka Does Comics, John Brandon in GQ, and More
The Novels of Hans Keilson discussed at the Book Review podcast. Letters from Vonnegut. Marmaduke, by Franz Kafka John Brandon interviewed at GQ. Overrated writers list is pretty much dead on. I like every essay at Dangerous Minds that discusses forgotten 60’s bands. Today, it’s Eddy Grant’s pre”Electric Avenue” band The Equals.
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Weekend Bites: Sex and the City/Emily Gould, Les Mis, Julie Klausner on HBO, Gary Shteyngart Continues Talking and More
Julie Klausner’s memoir, I Don’t Care About Your Band, is going to HBO. Eh? “without Sex and the City, there would arguably have been no Emily Gould“ Making Les Mis into the next Twilight. Books to the Ceiling give us their midyear roundup. Gary Shteyngart on the Yidlit podcast. College kids being investigated in Wikileaks leak.