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Afternoon Bites: Geoff Dyer Vs. “Timeless,” Inside CoverSpy, Rufus Wainwright, And More

On February 22, 2012 By Tobias Carroll

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

On February 16, 2012 By Jason Diamond

Afternoon Bites: Stephen Fry, Geoff Dyer on criticism, the Month of Letters challenge, and more

On February 10, 2012 By Tobias Carroll

Afternoon link roundup for February 10, 2012 -- featuring appearances from Curtis Sittenfeld, Stephen Fry, Geoff Dyer, and more.
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Morning Bites: OWS poetry, Bookish bad boys, Dyer in Queens, Beethoven’s letter, and more

On January 11, 2012 By Jason Diamond

A great video of poetry being read at Occupy Wall Street is up at Coldfront featuring folks like Justin Taylor and Kendra Grant Malone.
Alexander Hamilton was born on this day in 1755 or 1757. We looked at two ways to celebrate his birthday last year. Geoff Dyer talks Andrei Tarkovsky in Queens on March 11th t the Museum of the Moving Image. Kingsley Amis! Martin Amis! Lord Byron! And other literary bad boys at Flavorwire. Diplo’s got a book. A letter Beethoven wrote has been discovered. An excerpt from Jason Heller’s forthcoming [...]
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A year of favorites: Tobias’s Best Of 2011

On December 19, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Posted by Tobias Carroll

This is the first of two lists of the books I read this year that I most enjoyed. This one focuses on books released this year; the other will focus around books that I encountered for the first time in 2011 that first entered the world in preceding years.
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Dana Spiotta’s Stone Arabia is an intentionally messy book with shifting and sometimes overlapping narrators and a sense of history, both familial and musical, looming in the background. Not long after I finished it, I found the narrative ambiguity somewhat frustrating; [...]
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Indexing: Geoff Dyer, Roxane Gay, Autumn music, Roland Barthes, Flannery O’Connor, and more

On October 29, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

A roundup of things consumed by our editors.

Tobias Carroll
Finished Geoff Dyer’s Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasai last weekend for one of the book groups I’m in. At first, I wasn’t as impressed with it as I’d been with his other work, but over time, the gulf between its two sections — one third-person, set in Venice, the other first-person and set in Varanasai — began to impress me more and more. Dyer leaves open the question of whether the protagonist of the first section is the narrator of the second, and out of the [...]
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Indexing: Ann Beattie at the DMV, Ben Tarnoff, Frank Bill, Geoff Dyer, Orwell, and So Much More!

On October 22, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

A roundup of things consumed by our editors.

Jason Diamond

Ann Beattie’s Mrs. Nixon was my company when I waited in line at the DMV in Herald Square for two hours yesterday, trying to get my drivers license for the first time in New York. Even though I’d had a DL in another state for ten years, since I didn’t renew, I’m a new driver in the eyes of Governor Cuomo. That means I get to go through the entire process I went through when I was sixteen all over again.
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Afternoon Bites: Lydia Millet, Victor LaValle, Spike Jonze, and more

On October 21, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

“Typically my writing prompt is nothing fancy—just your basic same old, same old. Fear of death.” Lydia Millet shares on artist Dimitri Kozyrev.
Geoff Dyer, in the Guardian, begins a series on writing fiction. Victor LaValle responds to Laura Miller’s essay on the National Book Awards. New fiction from Michael Kimball at Matter Press. Simon Cohn, Olympia Le-Tan, and Spike Jonze made an animated short film set in a bookstore.
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