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Morning Bites: Marc Maron Meets Bret Easton Ellis (On Twitter), Saul Bass For Kids, Abbey Talk, And More

On February 22, 2012 By Jason Diamond

The Greatest Books I’ve Never Read #2: “Pride And Prejudice”

On February 16, 2012 By Nick Curley

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Morning Bites: Jackson Pollock death day, Dana Spiotta on Bookworm, Jennifer Gilmore’s desk, Tom Waits fishing, and more

On August 11, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Today we learn what Jennifer Gilmore's desk looks like, Tom Waits on a boat, No Child Left Behind is being left behind, Jackson Pollock is still dead, and more.
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Morning Bites: Happy Charlotte Brontë, Iggy Pop, and Robert Smith Day, Jane Austen Musical, Wavves, and More

On April 21, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Today is the shared birthday of Charlotte Brontë, Iggy Pop, and Robert Smith. We think that should make this day a national holiday of some sort.
“Sense and Sensibility: The Musical.” No, this isn’t a Mel Brooks gag. We are still not sick of Elif Batuman. She writes about life after the success of The Possessed, and the time she asked Jonathan Franzen for pot. Top 5 conversations I’d like to sit in on: Tina Fey hanging out with Steve Martin. The Daily Beast discuses the deaths of Tim Hetherington and Chris [...]
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Bites: The Life and Times of Rick Moody, Bad Hanukkah Choices, 21st Century Jane Austen, Fugazi Moments, and More.

On December 2, 2009 By Jason Diamond

The life and times of Rick Moody.
Indichik talks about Moody and his band, The Wingdale Community Singers. Moby Lives gives us a roundup of Moody and his Twitter experiment. “This is why I love the internet.” Moody and Electric Literature aren’t the only people to use Twitter as an avenue for fiction writing.
Lit.
“Of the six million victims of the Holocaust, the only face we know intimately belongs to Anne Frank.” This is how you get me to buy books for [...]
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Bites: A Woman’s Wit, James Franco is on Daytime TV, So What?, Aerosmith Understands the Internet, and more

On November 10, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

The New York Times reviews “A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen in Life and Legacy” on exhibit at The Morgan Library & Museum.

Lit.
Even though there are approximately one billion newly published food memoirs per American second, everyone’s still obsessing over Jonathan Safran Foer and his book about that ultra-modern idea of vegetarianism. Wells Tower is also still writing for Outside Mag. According to the Rumpus, this is one example of why fiction writers make good journalists. The Guardian reviews Fantastic Mr. Fox: “The results may be [...]
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Bites: Gladwell is Analyzed, Zizek on Post-Communism, the “Weirdness” of Health Insurance, and more

On November 9, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

Malcolm Gladwell

The internet is a-twitter with three things this morning: the anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the health care bill, and Maureen Tkacik’s Nation piece, “Malcolm Gladwell for Dummies.” HTMLGIANT’s Justin Taylor sees the essay as more than just a piece on Gladwell, but also “worth looking at…in light of [the] ongoing discussion of what good criticism can or should look like.” The Millions wonders if this is “a tipping point for Gladwell haters.”

Berlin Wall

Additionally, Philosopher Slavoj Zizek urges that post-Communist countries should not be written off [...]
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A Brief History of the Modern Zombie, or Why I Hate Zombie Lit

On October 31, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

by Willa A. Cmiel

For as much as we like to talk about and link to zombies here at Vol. 1, I really think the trend is, to put it nicely, pretty silly. To be truly frank, I actually find it immensely, offensively, near-tragically awful. (It’s true that I’ve written about this before.)

Historically, zombie mythology originated in West Indian Voodoo lore, and was taken and misinterpreted by Western society (Night of the Living Dead). And then we took it a step farther (Shaun of the Dead). I’m not really a zombie expert, but to me that’s all [...]
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