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Afternoon Bites: Writers’ Ghosts, Granta, Joan Didion, and more

On October 31, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Jason’s Spooktube Music Video Picks

On October 30, 2009 By Jason Diamond

In honor of tomorrow.

1) Cold Cave “Love Comes Close”

I’ve already gone on record stating what I think of Wes Eisold as a writer, frontman of great hardcore bands, and one of the minds behind Heartworm Press. It’s this single by his latest project, Cold Cave, that has me the most excited. New Order lifting poetry from a long-dead Romantic poet? Maybe. Whatever the case, this video blew me away.

2) Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Serge Gainsbourg, “Constipation Blues”

Yes, it might be the greatest pairing since Adam and Eve. We know.

3) Nick [...]
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Bites: Kerouac “Misunderstood”, Fictionaut, Gore Vidal Sitting, Xiu Xiu Returns, Ghosts, and more.

On October 29, 2009 By Jason Diamond

The Rumpus says of Jack Kerouac that “you’d be pressed to find a more quoted, misunderstood, revered, and culturally significant icon of the latter half of the 20th century.” Yeh.

Lit.
Fictionaut founder Juumlrgen Fauth is interviewed over at AgencySpy. Celebrity memoirs: Good for the publishing industry, useless otherwise. Jonathan Safran Foer is going after the big meatheads. Gore Vidal just sits there. Happy birthday Terry Southern. (Thanks Arthur) Bellevue Literary Review’s Fall issue is out.
Music
Xiu Xiu is back!
A quick [...]
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