Morning Bites: Typewriters, Rimbaud’s birthday, Adbusters, Megan Boyle’s trailer, and more

WNYC takes a look at the niche business of typewriter repair. Arthur Rimbaud was born on this day in 1854. At Lit Kicks: How Adbusters went from a zine to the creative force behind Occupy Wall Street. 3:AM reviews Joshua Mohr’s Damascus. Megan Boyle’s book trailer that looked like it took a long time to make. Does anybody remember when punk broke?  Those were the days! My Brightest Diamond is making progress.

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Indexing: Michael Kimball, Ben Marcus, Caryn Rose, Rimbaud, and more

Tobias Carroll A year and a half ago, I was reading Lev Grossman’s The Magicians in trade paperback. Looking at the very back page, I saw an ad teasing the sequel, The Magician King. Initially, I wasn’t sure what to think: The Magicians was as much a meditation on certain fantasy tropes as a satisfying work on its own. Could Grossman sustain that for a second book? As it turns out, that’s not at all what’s going on with the […]

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Morning Bites: Dorothy Parker’s birthday, Rimbaud in The New Yorker, Gainsbourg’s man, and more

Dorothy Parker was born on this day in 1893. Daniel Mendelsohn on the brief career of Arthur Rimbaud in this week’s New Yorker. Silly times in Hitler’s Germany. Joann Sfar, director of the upcoming documentary Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, talks to Vox Tablet. Really, the only right way to report that The Help was the number one film at the box office this weekend would be to say something like, “The Help crushes anemic competition.  Brings in millions.”  Sadly, nobody […]

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Bites: The Shining pt. 2, Lethem in Manhattan, Rimbaud, Turkey Holocaust Poetry, Grass Widow on WFMU, and More

Danny, he said, was certain to have been left “with a lifetime’s worth of emotional scars” after his experiences at the Overlook, where his father was possessed by the hotel, tried to kill him and his mother and eventually died. I’m going to guess two things.  The first being Stephen King isn’t going to name the sequel to The Shining, The Shining 2: Danny Torrance Boogaloo.   Secondly, I’m guessing he’s not going to get Stanley Kubrick to do the film […]

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