Afternoon Bites: Inside Numero Group, Talking With Ned Vizzini, Jami Attenberg on Kelly Clarkson, and More

Spin has an in-depth look at the excellent Chicago-based reissue label Numero Group. Jami Attenberg on Kelly Clarkson. (That’s really all you need to know, I’d say.) Ken Baumann and Ned Vizzini sat down for a conversation at HTML Giant. Emma Straub is in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, and that is a fine thing. Moby Lives has a chat with Kevin Sampsell of Future Tense Press and Powell’s. That time Bob Dylan met Paul Westerberg… There is no way you […]

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Westerberg on Chilton

It was some years back, the last time I saw Alex Chilton. We miraculously bumped into each other one autumn evening in New York, he in a Memphis Minnie T-shirt, with take-out Thai, en route to his hotel. He invited me along to watch the World Series on TV, and I immediately discarded whatever flimsy obligation I may have had. We watched baseball, talked and laughed, especially about his current residence — he was living in, get this, a tent […]

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Bites: Chicago reflects, James Ellroy, new Eastwick, Twilight soundtrack, and more

  The Guardian looks at literary Chicago, in it’s more “reflective period” in the wake of the Granta issue that focuses on the Windy City. Lit. To answer your question Gawker: no, we don’t need another Eastwick. Mental Floss has Kurt Vonnegut reading Breakfast of Champions three years before it’s released. (via 92Y) Minneapolis Star Review (via Largehearted Boy) talks to James Ellroy. And over at The Cult, they talk to Mr. Ellroy also. I guess because I’m a blogger, […]

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