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From the monthly archives: October 2011

Afternoon Bites: Writers’ Ghosts, Granta, Joan Didion, and more

On October 31, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Rose Peddles – The Best of Charlie Rose Interviewing Authors: Slavoj Žižek

On October 31, 2011 By Nick Curley

Posted by Nick Curley

Case File: Slavoj Zizek
Air Date: October 26th, 2011

Botanica (Summary): In his first appearance on the show, Zizek – Slovenia’s hottest Lacanian philosopher – praises PBS from right outta the gate, while sporting the look and gesticulations of a Muppet born of the Children’s Television Workshop. This meeting of the minds came last week in the midst of Zizek’s brief but storied tour of our fair city, which included transcribed speeches at St. Mark’s Bookshop and Occupy Wall Street. The [...]
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Seth Fried is his own favorite person

On October 31, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Posted by Jason Diamond

The days when I predicted Seth Fried would become one of my favorite new authors are long behind us. Having read and loved The Great Frustration, I’m now officially a prophet who is trying to parlay my fortune-telling success into a gig as a preacher for the Church of Fried.

Today’s installment comes via his story over at the Freerange Nonfiction site, “I Am My Favorite Person.” Mr. Fried has even made a video for the occasion.

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Morning Bites: Getting Goon Squad, the bespoke library, Megan Boyle, Drew Magary, and more

On October 31, 2011 By Jason Diamond

A print shop reopens in lower Manhattan.
A suggestion that Hilary Swank should get all A Visit From The Goon Squad to take care of the criticism she’s receiving for accepting a fee to fly to Chechnya and celebrate the birthday of its president (and notorious ignorer of human rights), Ramzan Kadyrov. Long before Orson Welles scared the world into thinking that the H.G. Wells novel The Ward Of The Worlds had become a reality on Halloween in 1938, there was The Great Moon Hoax of 1835. Megan Boyle is the guest on this week’s Other People podcast. There’s supposedly talk of [...]
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Sunday Stories: “The Clutch”

On October 30, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

The Clutch
by Tobias Carroll

On the first morning, Dalton passed the trash bags on the last leg of his walk to work. They clustered there on the edge of the sidewalk, nine strong. The first hours of August sun extended the previous night’s heat. Dalton stepped through the clinging vapor on his way from the subway to a basement office two avenues away.

By the third morning, the air’s density had grown: sweat sprouted from Dalton’s chest and shoulders as soon as he rose to street level and began his westward walk. Ten steps down the [...]
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Indexing: Geoff Dyer, Roxane Gay, Autumn music, Roland Barthes, Flannery O’Connor, and more

On October 29, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

A roundup of things consumed by our editors.

Tobias Carroll
Finished Geoff Dyer’s Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasai last weekend for one of the book groups I’m in. At first, I wasn’t as impressed with it as I’d been with his other work, but over time, the gulf between its two sections — one third-person, set in Venice, the other first-person and set in Varanasai — began to impress me more and more. Dyer leaves open the question of whether the protagonist of the first section is the narrator of the second, and out of the [...]
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Afternoon Bites: Akashic Books, John D’Agata, Permanent Wave, and more

On October 28, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

“While we are beyond delighted at the success of Go the Fuck to Sleep, my life and life at Akashic has not changed that much…” MobyLives checks in with Akashic’s Johnny Temple.
Thomas Ross looks at Floyd Skloot’s short story collection Cream of Kohlrabi: “The standouts, which are immersive and emotionally gripping, are that way because Skloot writes such terribly honest characters. It’s striking how warmly and humanely Skloot writes about loss.” At Sound of the City, Nick Murray reports on last night’s Permanent Waves covers show. There’s a new John D’Agata book coming out next year? [...]
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The pre-Sag Harbor, pre-zombie music writings of Colson Whitehead are available

On October 28, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Posted by Tobias Carroll
In a reasonably genius move, the Village Voice‘s Sound of the City music blog is reprinting some of the record reviews that Colson Whitehead wrote for said newspaper in the early 90s. First up: Basehead’s Not in Kansas Anymore. On Not in Kansas Anymore (Imago), Basehead drops most of those hip hop gestures—a little half-hearted scratching is all that’s to be had—leaving only the band’s mellow, minimalist arrangements. A college boy to the core, Ivey’s lyrics are pure middle-class angst, which means racism, beer, and girls are all of equal importance. The whole thing [...]
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