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Morning Bites: Gay Writers Who Changed America, Geoff Dyer, Kraftwerk In New York, And More

On February 16, 2012 By Jason Diamond

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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“Kafka was a slightly strange man”

On January 22, 2010 By Jason Diamond

So says 106-year-old Alice Herz-Somme, who was the last (known) person alive to know Franz Kafka.
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Steampunk + Kafka =’s Bar?

On December 28, 2009 By Jason Diamond

Somebody in Prospect Heights is trying to open a “steampunk bar”, but can’t get a liquor license. The whole process is described by the bar owner as:

Kafka meets Catch 22. Fortunately, I haven’t woken up as a giant cockroach… yet.
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The Kafka’s Letters Crisis: All That’s Missing is Baby-Daddy Drama and a Reality Show

On October 5, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

It’s certainly been an interesting year for Franz Kafka. Here at Vol. 1 Brooklyn, we’ve seen Gregor Samsa’s tortured existence used as an icon for religious propaganda pamphlets, Nabakov’s line edits and bug doodles upon Kafka’s infamous Metamorphosis, and the “new” information that reading Kafka’s surrealism causes us to learn better, and be smarter.

While it may be a leap to label the story “Kafka-esque” (although understandably tempting)–it’s more like a storyline for a daytime television show–there’s certainly lots of drama centered around the final papers of the existential-absurd-surreal modernist.

It’s well known that Kafka [...]
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