Afternoon Bites: PANK Invasion, Brooklyn High Schools, Morrissey Smiling, and More

Tonight is the PANK Invasion at WORD.  So many capital letters, so many great readers. The hidden treasures of Erasmus Hall High School. From the department of Too Good To Be True: Zach Galifianakis as Ignatius J. Reilly would be basically perfect. Did someone say “lots of pictures of Morrissey smiling“? Flavorwire is on it. Also included in that photo set: a picture of Morrissey with a cat on his head, presumably taken in a spirit similar to this one. If […]

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Morning Bites: Morrissey’s Birthday, Maira Kalman Hanging out, Louis C.K. Goes Woody, and More

Steven Patrick Morrissey was born on this day in 1959. A night with Maira Kalman and friends. Emily St. John Mandel was the guest on this week’s episode of the Other People podcast. Louis C.K. hires Woody Allen’s former editor for Louie. New music now available from Leda, featuring (among others) Amy Klein and Permanent Wave’s Heidi Vanderlee. Peter Weir has plans to adapt Jennifer Egan’s novel The Keep for the big screen. Dan Wickett looks at new short fiction […]

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Morning Bites: Mark Twain and Bo Jackson eating birthday cake, Morrissey Gets a Job, British newspapers, and more

Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and Bo Jackson were all born on this day.  Only Twain got a Google Doodle, proving that Bo don’t know Google Doodles. Morrissey Gets a Job is probably our favorite thing of the week. 300 years of British newspapers are now available online at The British Newspaper Archive. More on the fate of the OWS library by Emily Witt at The Observer. N+1 on Occupy LSX. Royal Young talks to Nancy Milford about Zelda […]

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When good bands cover Morrissey and Kate Bush

Posted by Jason Diamond The Parenthetical Girls have been one of my favorite bands for quite some time, and they’ve only solidified their status by covering Kate Bush.  Meanwhile, The Bandana Splits covered Moz.  I bet you’re saying to yourself, “Everybody and their mother has done that,” but the trio actually adds something new to it. But I have to warn you, it’s pretty twee. Listen: Parenthetical Girls- ” Under The Ivy” (Kate Bush cover)  Listen: The Bandana Splits – “Everyday […]

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If Britpop ran the publishing industry…

Posted by Jason Diamond Jarvis Cocker becoming an editor at Faber & Faber is a step in the right direction, but these are my  dream scenarios if Britpoppers from the 1990s ran the publishing industry. 1.  Penguin would hire Morrissey to be in charge of design of the Classics imprint.  They’re already going to be giving him bags of cash to write his memoirs, why not put Moz in charge of getting things back to the level that Germano Facetti […]

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Bites: Newman’s Take on Kesey, American Psycho, Morrissey’s Memoirs, Talking Animals of Fiction, and More

The Stranger talks about Paul Newman’s film adaptation of Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion. The musical version of American Psycho, is closer than ever to being a reality. Over at Flavorwire, Adam Wilson takes a look at animal narrators in fiction. A librarian ponders life after Brooklyn. Morrissey’s memoir =’s untold riches and dream fulfillment. More info about the Riot Grrrl collection at NYU. New Yorker writer Ian Frazier: Sandy. And other nicknames of the “literary elite“. The Rumpus […]

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