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From the monthly archives: November 2011

The Ghost of Zack Morris: Taking a look at preppy books

On November 22, 2011 By Jason Diamond

(Small) Demonology

On November 22, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Morning Bites: Why Steinbeck matters, NYT Notables, Norton Records, possible Dirk Nowitzki haikus, and more

On November 22, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Afternoon Bites: Occupy Musicians, Late Great Creatures, Zines About Zines, and more

On November 21, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Band Booking: Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes and Blackout Beach

On November 21, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Interview by Tobias Carroll

If your tastes in music run towards the eccentric, the literate, the highly compelling, and the surreally energetic, odds are good that you’ve encountered the work of Carey Mercer. Mercer’s latest work is Fuck Death, the newest album from Blackout Beach. It takes his own deeply focused style of songwriting and expands it somewhat, veering into interesting spatial territory and expanding much of what one might expect. (Mercer’s penchant for vivid song titles remains very much present, however, as “Hornet’s Fury into the Bandit’s Mouth” and “Broken Braying Sound of the Donkey’s [...]
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Morning Bites: “not beat poets,” last Sonic Youth show, Victorian hoarders, animating Bolaño, and more

On November 21, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Today you should do birthday shots for Voltaire, Goldie Hawn, Björk, and Ken Griffey Jr.
Robert Hass, the 70-year-old former Poet Laureate of the United States, writes an op-ed about being beaten by police at Occupy Berkeley. At Granta: Animating Bolaño. The Los Angeles Review of Books talks to Helen DeWitt. The Victorians: Original hoarders? 3:AM Magazine talks to Alina Simone. Ted Leo and Titus Andronicus are playing an OWS benefit in Brooklyn tonight. Possibly the last Sonic Youth show ever? Smoking opium in Iran.
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Sunday Stories: “Baby Girl”

On November 20, 2011 By Margarita Korol

Baby Girl
by Margarita Korol

Mila
In my Balkans, when man take match to woman’s cigarette, the proper Serb thank her for distinct pleasure of lighting her fire; she reward him with dirty look. I like strip-naked longing from confident man. Man like this have trustworthy character. He understand his desire and act consistently with it. That longing is good sign, mean his mother feed him well as child.

I fresh off boat, my customer at coffee shop here say. I don’t know, I come on plane. Last boat I am on was the splav, [...]
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