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Morning Bites: Defending Updike, Salem witch trials, Rushkoff’s leap, Chelsea Wolfe, and more

On January 27, 2012 By Jason Diamond

Morning Bites: When Updike went homophobic, Jami Attenberg, Gessen at #OccupyWallStreet, and more

On October 13, 2011 By Jason Diamond

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Scenes from the first circle

On September 24, 2009 By Jason Diamond

Hemingway: “John…”

Updike: “Yes Ernest?”

Hemingway: “They ummm, made a television show from one of your books…”

Updike: “Oh? Ah. Yes, I see they did.”

Hemingway: “It’s on after Cougar Town.”

Updike: “Oh? Hmmm….”

Hemingway: “Gonna watch that one?”

Updike: “Christ no.”

Hemingway: “Ah, yes, yes. Me neither.”

2 Hours later

Updike: “Ernest, something is troubling me. Ernest? Ernest, listen to me dammit!”

Ernest: “Ah? Yes, yes. What is it John?”

Updike: “What’s with your grandkids Ernest?

Ernest: “What’s that John?”

Updike: “Your spawn Ernest. They are imbeciles. A Moveable Feast was one thing, but these [...]
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Bites: Chicago reflects, James Ellroy, new Eastwick, Twilight soundtrack, and more

On September 23, 2009 By Jason Diamond

The Guardian looks at literary Chicago, in it’s more “reflective period” in the wake of the Granta issue that focuses on the Windy City.

Lit.
To answer your question Gawker: no, we don’t need another Eastwick. Mental Floss has Kurt Vonnegut reading Breakfast of Champions three years before it’s released. (via 92Y) Minneapolis Star Review (via Largehearted Boy) talks to James Ellroy. And over at The Cult, they talk to Mr. Ellroy also. I guess because I’m a blogger, I like novellas. Or something like that. (Thanks Melville House) [...]
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Bites: John Updike rumors, best fiction so far, Billy Clinton still kicking, Leonard Cohen is gonna be alright, and more

On September 22, 2009 By Jason Diamond

A John Updike rumor over at Three Guys One Book
Slate on L. Frank Baum, and the first American fairy tale. The Millions picks the “Best Fiction of the Millennium (so far)“ Ralph Nader wrote a novel Almost tis the season for Banned Book Week.
Politics
Nobody puts William Jefferson Clinton in the corner.
Music
Leonard Cohen is going to be alright.
Jessica Hopper likes the English band Pens. I do too. A.V Club talks Monsters of Folk
Misc.
Ladies and gentlemen…the geniuses!
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Bites: Obama at the vineyard, Leni Zumas, Atlas Sound does Fleetwood Mac, and more

On August 13, 2009 By Jason Diamond

Tut tut bitches! Obama goes to Martha’s Vineyard! Leni Zumas tells The Rumpus about the last good book she read. Leni Zumas rules. Atlas Sound covering Fleetwood Mac maybe the biggest thing since Atlas Sound teamed up with Panda Bear. Three Guys One Book talk a little Updike. I like 3G1B (can I do that, or does it look like a code for the cousin of Swine Flu?), and I love Updike. I’ve never read Nicholas Mosely, but HTMLGIANT makes me want to correct that.
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The Coen Brothers and the Return of the Middle-Aged Jewish Man

On August 3, 2009 By Jason Diamond

By Jason Diamond

Using names like Woody Allen, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Leonard Michaels, a case could be made that there is an entire genre focusing solely on the neurosis of middle-aged Jewish men. John Updike must have thought so, take his character Henry Bech for proof. But while Bellow, Michaels, and the WASP king Updike are all dead, Roth is still good (a bit depressing maybe, but in a good way) and Allen is more content on using hot Spaniards as inspiration. The closest Woody has come to chasing his Hebrew muse in the last fifteen years was [...]
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Slack Motherfucker #2

On July 23, 2009 By Jason Diamond

.Dirty Work.

I am, admittedly and proudly, the go-to music nerd among my friends. Whether I am glowing over Billy Joel’s foray into heavy metal in the early 1970′s via his band Attila (or Billy Joel’s entire catalog for that matter) or my collection off 60′s bubblegum pop, I have always been able to make a case for music that my peers might otherwise find annoying, silly, or just plain bad. However, I am led to believe there might be something in the DNA of most of my generation that causes people to hate Steely [...]
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