In our afternoon reading: thoughts on an Eileen Chang novel, fiction by Kate Axelrod, music by Oneida, and more.
Morning Bites: Augustus Rose’s Playlist, Deb Olin Unferth Interviewed, Lee Hazlewood, and More
In our morning reading: a playlist by Augustus Rose, interviews with Deb Olin Unferth and William Gibson, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Samanta Schweblin Interviewed, Julio Cortázar, Deb Olin Unferth’s Latest, Melissa Febos, and More
In our afternoon reading: interviews with Samanta Schweblin and Melissa Febos, a review of Deb Olin Unferth’s new collection, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Unica Zürn, Deb Olin Unferth Fiction, Australian Science Fiction, Great Book Covers, and More
In our afternoon reading: Blake Butler on Unica Zürn, fiction from Deb Olin Unferth, Dean Wareham on a Velvet Underground box set, and more.
A year of favorites: Jason’s 2011 Best Of list
Posted by Jason Diamond I’ve written and read my share of year-end lists, and I’m at the point now where I’m not totally sure what sort of purpose they serve, but I continue to read and write them anyway. I’m not trying to sound jaded about peoples roundups of the year that was, in fact I rather like them and really enjoy doing my own. I guess my issue tends to be more of the way you’ve got to dig […]
Morning Bites: John Sinclair, Bolaño Poetry, Hanging at the Armory, and More
John Sinclair (above, middle) is interviewed at The Rumpus. Sixteen poems by Roberto Bolaño. Jon Cotner and Claire Hamilton spend four hours at the Armory. Deb Olin Unferth on the Bat Segundo Show. The BBC takes a look at Elizabeth Taylor’s life in film. A Weimar-era German “rail zeppelin” over at Boing Boing.
Weekend Bites: Nick Cave to MTV, Nonrequired Reading, Wesley Stace, Soros Responds to Glenn Beck and More
Remember that time that Nick Cave told MTV that he didn’t want their stinking award? NY Tyrant takes the Best American Nonrequired Reading books to task at Vice. Wesley Stace talks to the New York Times. The cult of the sentence. George Soros finally responded to Glenn Beck’s (anti-Semitic) frequent attacks. Home cooking with Amy Sedaris. James Franco asks Judd Apatow how to host the Oscars. William F. Buckley on pot. NY Times Sunday Book Review Highlights Joyce Carol Oates’s […]
Deb Olin Unferth and Justin Taylor’s Revolution Winter
Posted by Jason Diamond We keep getting these promises that America is on the brink of revolution: Barack Obama was going to take everything he ever learned from Saul Alinsky, and turn American into the free enterprise utopia it was destined to be, but then it didn’t happen. The Tea Party was going to be the revolution that was going to change the Republican Party, but now all it’s doing is really mucking things up for the right, and letting […]