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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 year of favorites: Tobias’s Best Of 2011

On December 19, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

A year of favorites: Jason’s 2011 Best Of list

On December 15, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Afternoon Bites: Archipelago Books, Little Printers, Justin Taylor, and more

On December 1, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Morning Bites: Post-Ann Beattie, Taylor on Stephen King, Downton Disco, bad Life covers, and more

On November 16, 2011 By Jason Diamond

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Morning Bites: Jarvis Cocker editing, DFW’s possible fabrications, flash fiction, and more

On October 12, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Faber & Faber hires Jarvis Cocker as its editor-at-large. We’re pretty sure Jarvis is the secret sauce the publishing industry needs to get rolling again.
So maybe David Foster Wallace fabricated some things… Justin Taylor reviews Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams. Guernica has a new flash fiction series. J. M. Coetzee moves his papers to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. Tavis Smiley to tackle poverty in a new series on PBS.
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On Literary Fiction and Radical Music

On September 23, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Posted by Tobias Carroll

Last Sunday, a combination of topics and questions raised during two panels at the Brooklyn Book Festival got me thinking about one particular intersection of music and literature. This is more of a question (or a request for information) than anything else.

One late-morning panel included Justin Taylor and Jennifer Gilmore, both of whom have released acclaimed novels that at least touch on punk subcultures — whether anarchist communes or straightedge hardcore. Eleanor Henderson’s Ten Thousand Saints delved into the world of New York hardcore (see our discussion of “punk fiction and punk [...]
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Quick and Dirty Interview with Justin Taylor

On March 16, 2011 By julietlinderman

Posted by Juliet Linderman

It’s not every day that a book about Christianity, anarchy and punk rock is raved up by the National Jewish Council, but then again, not every writer is as adept at prose as Justin Taylor, a Jewcy favorite whose debut novel, the Gospel of Anarchy, was recently published on Harper Perennial. The Gospel of Anarchy is a daring little thing: at a mere 256 pages, Taylor manages to tell the story—from several different perspectives—of a collective of friends living on the fringes of society in Gainesville, Florida, who accidentally create their own religion based [...]
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