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From the monthly archives: December 2011

Vacation is all we ever wanted

On December 26, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Vacation Bites: Henry Miller’s birthday, anthropomorphic dioramas, literary word processing, and more

On December 26, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Indexing: Lynd Ward, Eileen Myles, re-watching It’s a Wonderful Life, Best Music Writing, and much more

On December 24, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

A roundup of things consumed by our contributors.

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With an eye towards increasing my tally of nonfiction consumed in 2011, I read Peter Hessler’s River Town. (Much like Jason last week, I must tip my hat in the direction of the Bookavore-originating recommendation.) I found it to be a fascinating account of a small city in China, wedding a candid account of his time there as a teacher with passages that give a deeper history of the region and nation around him. A few days after reading it, I opened the latest issue of The [...]
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Afternoon Bites: Roxane Gay, Jello Biafra, unexpected Ian McEwan references, and more

On December 23, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Might we direct your attention to “The Price of Revelation,” in which Roxane Gay examines the case of Marie Calloway? (Justin Taylor makes an interesting point in the comments as well.)
Alina Simone on the Cold War, and what followed. Brian Joseph Davis on the print edition of his The Consumed Guide (of which we ran an excerpt) and Jello Biafra. Matthew Simmons on black metal, Google, and Canada. Ace pop-culture reference of the week: Jody Rosen works On Chesil Beach into Slate’s year-in-music discussion. Elizabeth Ellen’s Fast Machine is coming in 2012 from [...]
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Morning Bites: Shel Silverstein archive, The Royal Foers, Crystal Stilts, and more

On December 23, 2011 By Jason Diamond

So many treasures from the Shel Silverstein archive.
New idea for a Wes Anderson movie: The Royal Foers, starring Jonathan, Joshua, Franklin, and their monopoly fighting father. Jonathan Ames writes about his life as a bachelor. Marc Maron talks to Conan. Keegan Cooke of Crystal Stilts makes a pretty fine soul mixtape for Magnet. The classical Christmas music you should be listening to.
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Afternoon Bites: Emma Straub, Blake Butler, punk rock compilations, and more

On December 22, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Emma Straub has a bittersweet essay in the Times about cathedrals, Christmas, and burial plots. (It’s also fantastic. Seriously, go read it now.)
When you call something “the year’s weirdest post-apocalyptic novel,” you definitely get our attention. SPIN has revealed its list of the 10 best music books of 2011. Blake Butler, in Vice, writes about Pierre Guyotat: “All this context still doesn’t really set you up for the onslaught of full-on linguistic beatdown this man has managed to cram into his words.” Eric Weiss, the man behind the terrific punk/hc zine Rumpshaker, interviews Carrie Whitney [...]
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Reviewed: Green Girl by Kate Zambreno

On December 22, 2011 By Jen Vafidis

Reviewed by Jen Vafidis

Green Girl by Kate Zambreno

Emergency Press, 268 P.

You know that Rolling Stones song, “Cool, Calm, Collected”? It’s one of many vaguely misogynistic songs in the Stones back catalog, and it features the following lyrics: In public the strain’s hard to bear / She exudes such a confident air / But behind she is not without care / She sweeps it right under her hair. That’s basically Green Girl if Kate Zambreno didn’t have the patience and talent to think through how She feels. That being said, I like that Rolling Stones song, [...]
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Morning Bites: Etgar Keret holiday card, Pushkin’s restaurant, Kate Christensen blogs about food, DeWitt’s response, and more

On December 22, 2011 By Jason Diamond

A restaurant named after one of Pushkin’s characters opens up in the West Village.
Maybe Kate Christensen can check it out and write it up for her new food blog? Etgar Keret writes a Christmas card for Electric Literature. Jennifer Egan and books on mini farming: A.N. Devers year in reading at The Millions. Willa Paskin at Vulture points us to Helen DeWitt’s blog for her response to Michael H. Miller’s Observer profile on the Lightning Rods author. Julie Klausner talks to Popcandy.
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