Afternoon Bites: Dum Dum Girls and Strawberry Switchblade, “Tomorrow” Arrives, Adapting “A Wrinkle In Time,” and More

Douglas Wolk on the Dum Dum Girls and Strawberry Switchblade. (Literary bonus: there’s an Ursula K. LeGuin cameo.) Blake Butler has a list of things he probably won’t do before he dies. It involves a G.G. Allin cover band, a dead wolf, and shaving Robert Smith’s head. Sean T. Collins talked with David Clowes, Chris Ware, Jaime Hernandez, and Gilbert Hernandez for Rolling Stone. Sylvain Chauveau & Stephan Mathieu recorded an album of Smog songs. Tomorrow magazine is now available […]

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Afternoon Bites: Coates on Chabon, Liturgy on Shellac, Hope Larson on “A Wrinkle In Time,” and More

Hope Larson adapted Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In TimeĀ as a graphic novel. Ta-Nehisi Coates on Michael Chabon’s prose. Jason Santa Maria has some things to say about typefaces. Victor LaValle was interviewed at NPR. Perhaps the only time you’ll see “Liturgy” and “a capella Shellac cover” in the same sentence. Gabrielle Gantz on Nick Hornby’s More Baths Less Talking. Indie booksellers in NYC recommend their preferred fall books. Madeleine Miller’s essay “Writing at Six Miles an Hour” is quite good. […]

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