Bites: Leg up on Lipsyte, Japanther’s Books, DeLillo on NPR, Digital Librarians, and More

Want to read the first five chapters of Sam Lipsyte’s forthcoming book, The Ask?  BAM! Don DeLillo was on NPR to talk about his new book, Point Omega. The guy from Japanther likes some good books. LitKicks calls Patti Smith’s Just Kids, “the first great book of the new decade“. Melville House has a god on their hands. Shakespeare and a little kid. “Tech-savvy librarians” Califone on tour.

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Weekend Bites: Buddy Holly Negotiates, Boozy Writers, Shteyngart Gets Questioned, Patti Smith Podcast, A Bunch of Salinger, and More

Buddy Holly negotiates a contract. Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Sexton, and other famous literary drunks and addicts. I interviewed Gary Shteyngart over at Jewcy.  He calls Isaac Bashevis Singer “nuts”. Cassettes From My Ex does Largehearted Boy’s Book Notes. Trying to get lucky? Try Goethe. Patti Smith and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on the Book Review podcast. Remembering Salinger Dave Eggers Felicia Sullivan Salinger and the butcher. Andy Borowitz says “Hollywood Eager to Finally Fuck Up Catcher in the Rye“ […]

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All Tonight’s Parties

There are some nights were you look at the schedule of things going on and think to yourself “oh yeh, this is why I live in New York”, and tonight is definitely one of those nights. 1.  The Rumpus turns a years old, asks HTMLGiant to help them celebrate.  Tao Lin, Rivka Galchen, Justin Taylor, Deb Olin Unferth, and Stephen Elliott at Broadway East, where Chinatown meets the Lower East Side. 171 East Broadway. 2. Jami Attenberg reads from her […]

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Bites: Toasting Away a Tradition, Emerson was a Nutcase, Dum Dum Girls, and More

CNN + Vice + Sub Pop?  Free Williamsburg asks if “Wolf Blitzer is going to start wearing skinny jeans and doing blow with Terry Richardson at Market Hotel?” The Poe Toaster bailed? Ralph Waldo Emerson was a nutcase. Israel doesn’t want an American Jewish journalist hanging around How espresso is made by my favorite coffee shop/roasters, Intelligentsia Coffee Flavorpill reviews Patti Smith’s book, Just Kids. Pitchfork says Dum Dum Girls are “rising“ Heavy psych from France.

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Outside of Society, That’s Where Patti Smith Wants to be

Patti Smith was in the New York Times yesterday, discussing the PBS premier of the documentary, “Patti Smith, Dream of Life”, on Dec. 30th. The broadcast, part of the PBS series “POV,” is but the first step in what appears to be an all-out blitz to erase any remaining notions that Ms. Smith has not done enough work yet. That quote didn’t sit right with me, as I wasn’t aware  anybody thought Smith’s body of work was lacking anything — […]

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Bites: So Many Wild Things, Gigantic Interviewed, Mr. Rochester is Dreamy, Nobels for the Small Press, 1989, Dirty Projectors at NYer Fest, and more

Wild Things: It’s Released! Did you know?? Pitchfork interviews Spike Jonze. We’ve All Been Wondering Lately about “What Makes a Children’s Classic.”(NYT Arts Beat) Ohmahgawd–Wild Things, Wild Things, Wild Things. Lit. This essay on the importance of the humanities is outstanding.(Harper’s) Gigantic is interviewed by Fictionaut. “But, reader, I loved him.”  On Charlotte Brontë’s Mr. Rochester as the most romantic character in literature.  Oh, yes. Reading!: the demand of literature From last week, The Millions on Lit’s Nobel Prize and […]

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