Morning Bites: Televised Charlie Kaufman, Alexander Chee on Portland (Maine), Maile Meloy on Salinger, and More

If you’re making a trip to New England this summer, might we suggest Alexander Chee’s guide to Portland, Maine? Or perhaps Ploughshares‘s guide to literary Portsmouth. Bryan Charles remembers the excellent indie rock band Silkworm. Nico Muhly on writing for ballet. Maile Meloy on J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories. Jeanne Fury interviews Beth Ditto of The Gossip. A Charlie Kaufman/Catherine Keener HBO series? No argument here. Details have emerged about Tao Lin’s third novel. Also: LEGO hardcore show. Follow Vol. 1 […]

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Review: “There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From”

Reviewed by Tobias Carroll Bryan Charles There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From Open City, 240 p. Bryan Charles’s There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From opens with some words on its creation. “It was written with the aid of contemporaneous personal journals,” Charles writes about this account of his life in New York from 1998 to 2002. It’s an interesting note, in light of what follows, and one that helps to establish the […]

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Bites: Bryan Charles Day, Electric Literature Party, Yoga Memoirs and More

Yesterday was a good Bryan Charles day. Catherine Lacey interviewed him at HTMLGIANT, and he also told Largehearted Boy some of the albums he listened to while writing There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From. Tonight at Housing Works is the big Electric Literature release party for issue #5. It’s free, and probably the only thing worth doing on a Friday night in the city.  [Note: Here are highlights from the party on the EL blog] Jezebel […]

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