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Morning Bites: Vonnegut’s birthday, seeking out haters, Alex Ross on music writing, end of CDs, and more

On November 11, 2011 By Jason Diamond

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Electric Literature issue six is announced

On September 13, 2011 By Jason Diamond

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Electric Literature issue number six will be available September 15, featuring stories by Matt Sumell, Mary Otis, Marc Basch, Steve Edwards, and Nathan Englander. We should also mention the amazing cover art depicting what looks like the Gorton’s fisherman dressed as a clown, done by Sean Landers.
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Bites: Bryan Charles Day, Electric Literature Party, Yoga Memoirs and More

On January 21, 2011 By Jason Diamond

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 asks the question: “Why are yoga memoirs so popular?” McSweeney’s introduces [...]
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Are Electric Literature/Colson Whitehead the Greatest Tag Team Ever?

On March 28, 2010 By Jason Diamond

Today is Wrestlemania, tomorrow is the beginning of the Electric Literature/Colson Whitehead #Stuffmymusesays Twitter Contest. Which is more badass?

or winning this…

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Happening: Ten Walks/Two Talks Book Launch

On January 5, 2010 By Jason Diamond

Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch will launch Ten Walks/Two Talks (Ugly Ducking Presse) on Thursday, January 7th. The book combines ten walks around Manhattan, and two dialogues about walking — one of which takes place during a late-night “philosophical” walk through Central Park. Each walk lasted sixty minutes and gets documented in sixty sentences. Both dialogues lasted forty-five minutes.

You may remember Cotner and Fitch from their “Conversations over Stolen Food” at Electric Literature a few months back.

7 p.m. // free admission

At McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street in Manhattan.
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Weekend Bites: Sam Lipsyte to Tour With LCD Soundsystem?, Eno on Uncool, Harry Smith, Cheever’s Biography, Airplanes Saving Magazines, and More

On November 28, 2009 By Jason Diamond

Next time we do bites, the Rick Moody/Electric Literature Twitter Fiction project shall begin.
Sam Lipsyte and LCD Soundsystem on the road together in 2010? Over at Drowned in Sound, James Murphy considers it.
Reading the new Sam Lipsyte novel “the ask” now, which comes out around the time the LCD record does, so maybe we could have the most absurdly awkward co-headlining tour together… Brixton and bookstores??
New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year. Even though the airline industry is in trouble, it can still [...]
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Bites: Natalie Portman Likes Jonathan Safran Foer’s Book, NY Times Likes Electric Literature, Ames Kvetching on Twitter, The Watson Twins, and more

On October 28, 2009 By Jason Diamond

Natalie Portman went vegan thanks to Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Eating Animals. She writes about it for Huff Po. Makes the confusing statement, “I don’t believe in rape, but if it’s what it takes to please my dinner hosts, then so be it.”

Lit.
New York Times give mad props to Electric Literature. A Sherlock Holmes handbook. Maybe a good gift for Robert Downey Jr.? (Thanks Mental Floss)
Rick Moody and a parkway in Connecticut. Jonathan Ames kvetches on Twitter, and gets a television. Young adult [...]
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Bites: Fiction v. Non-Fiction, Poe’s Funeral, Proust’s Questions, Lev Grossman on being a critic, Wild Things, Hornby’s Education, Nick Cave & PJ Harvey, and more

On October 12, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

Jim Shepard for Electric Literature on the subject of fiction based on non-fiction: “We need to bear in mind, as we’ve been told many times, that we’re working from, but not necessarily about, our lives.”

Lit.
Edgar Allen Poe gets a real funeral. (Thanks, The Rumpus) On Vanity Fair’s website, take Proust’s Questionnaire and find out which celebrities you most resemble. Lev Grossman guest-posts for and on the National Book Critics Circle blog.
Film, a Quick Weekend Roundup
What will we post about now that Where the Wild Things Are has finally [...]
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