Afternoon Bites: Mel Brooks Interviewed, Unwound Live, “Funny Ha Ha,” and More

Alan Sepinwall interviewed Mel Brooks. Scott Esposito’s year in reading. Andrew Bujalski and Lena Dunham revisited Funny Ha Ha. Michelle Dean on Mavis Gallant. Pitchfork has a stream up of Unwound’s live album. Craig Mod on subcompact publishing. Looking at the font used on Unrest’s Perfect Teeth… Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.

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Bites: Best Book Covers, “Bush-League Method acting,” Social Thuggery, and More

Enough with the literary-merit top 10 lists.  Here are the best book covers of 2009.  I personally love the look of Ruben Toledo’s designs, but not at all for the books they represent.  An awkward confluence of visionary tones.  Who imagines their literary heroines with such artistic flair?  It’s unsettling. Lit. & Academia City University of New York dean Ann Kirschner recently read Little Dorrit four different ways (paperback, Kindle, iPhone, audiobook).  This week, she talks about it on NPR. […]

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