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Morning Bites: We Know Who Dear Sugar Is, Jeremy Lin Magical Realism, Tintin Returns, And More

On February 15, 2012 By Jason Diamond

Morning Bites: Watchmen prequels, S.J. Perelman, fiction faith struggles, Mailer, The Shining 2 (by Franzen), and more

On February 1, 2012 By Jason Diamond

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Afternoon Bites: The Parker Posey/Mark Twain Connection, Laird Hunt Talks Noir, Blake Butler and Sean Kilpatrick Team Up, and more

On January 30, 2012 By Tobias Carroll

Literary links for the afternoon of January 30, 2012. Features appearances from Parker Posey, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark Twain, Laird Hunt, Blake Butler, Sara Levine, and Sean Kilpatrick.
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Bites: 2 Alina Simones, Blake Butler reviewed, biographies, Portlandia in The New Yorker, and more

On December 27, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Luc Sante looks at the work of Jean-Patrick Manchette, whose Fatale is damn good reading.
Brain Pickings on the ten best biographies of 2011. Alina Simone meets Alina Simone. Ander Monson reviews Blake Butler’s Insomnia for the New York Times Book Review. Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen are profiled by The New Yorker.
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Afternoon Bites: Wells Tower and zines, handselling, Blake Butler, and more

On December 9, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

“Though his voice sounds confident and easy, there is something trapped in the tenor of the recordings, a carefully arranged throb that lines the ageless, spacious pop sense that would lead him to sell songs to the likes of Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis.” For The Oxford American‘s music issue, Blake Butler writes about the late singer/songwriter Jimmy Donley.
Wells Tower: not fond of doing online interviews; very fond of making zines. WORD’s Jenn Northington on the art and origins of handselling. At HTML Giant, Stephen O’Connor interviews author and Conjunctions editor Bradford Morrow. Nick Antosca is [...]
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Afternoon Bites: Blake Butler on Dennis Cooper, John Cage, Avid Bookshop, and more

On November 2, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

“From the very first sentence, we still find the familiar wicked slant of Cooper’s perennial knack for penetrative dialogue (in more than one sense, and with a degree of simultaneous awe and terror that I believe is unmatched in fiction), though the trajectory of it has been bent again.” Blake Butler reviews Dennis Cooper’s new novel The Marbled Swarm. (We’ll be hosting Cooper in conversation with Brandon Stosuy in two weeks.)
At Tin House’s blog: the first installment of Rob Spillman’s culture diary, with appearances from Arctic Monkeys, Terese Svoboda, Boris, Justin Vivien Bond, Zadie Smith, and [...]
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Morning Bites: Richard Hell, Bram Stoker’s diary, Blake Butler on the radio, old soccer balls, and more

On October 18, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Richard Hell’s memoir is acquired by Ecco. It will be titled I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp. You know somebody at Ecco is slapping themselves and saying, “Why couldn’t he have just called it “Some (Other) Kids” or something like that?” (Thanks Bryan Waterman for the tip.)
The private journals of Bram Stoker have been found. I guess you can call them The Real Vampire Diaries. Blake Butler talks about insomnia on the Brian Lehrer show. A more visual history of Gertrude Stein. Jimmy Chen gives us the best title ever [...]
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Another Monday night at Franklin Park

On October 11, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Posted by Tobias Carroll

There was a sizable crowd at Franklin Park last night for October’s installment of their reading series. That seemed logical: it was the release party for Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia, Blake Butler‘s second book of 2011 (and first work of nonfiction), and the bill also included Alexander Chee, who read from his forthcoming novel The Queen of the Night.
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