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Morning Bites: Mark Twain and Bo Jackson eating birthday cake, Morrissey Gets a Job, British newspapers, and more

On November 30, 2011 By Jason Diamond

When good bands cover Morrissey and Kate Bush

On November 2, 2011 By Jason Diamond

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If Britpop ran the publishing industry…

On October 12, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Posted by Jason Diamond

Jarvis Cocker becoming an editor at Faber & Faber is a step in the right direction, but these are my dream scenarios if Britpoppers from the 1990s ran the publishing industry.

1. Penguin would hire Morrissey to be in charge of design of the Classics imprint. They’re already going to be giving him bags of cash to write his memoirs, why not put Moz in charge of getting things back to the level that Germano Facetti had it on in the 1960s?

2. Harper Perennial would get Ben Greenman [...]
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Bites: Newman’s Take on Kesey, American Psycho, Morrissey’s Memoirs, Talking Animals of Fiction, and More

On February 3, 2010 By Jason Diamond

The Stranger talks about Paul Newman’s film adaptation of Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion.
The musical version of American Psycho, is closer than ever to being a reality. Over at Flavorwire, Adam Wilson takes a look at animal narrators in fiction. A librarian ponders life after Brooklyn. Morrissey’s memoir =’s untold riches and dream fulfillment. More info about the Riot Grrrl collection at NYU. New Yorker writer Ian Frazier: Sandy. And other nicknames of the “literary elite“. The [...]
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Bites: Boxcar Kids, dirty pirates, Tom Waits, Moz in the third person, the Milkman talks, and more.

On August 12, 2009 By Jason Diamond

Lesley Blume on NPR talks about The Boxcar Children, and other children books I might think of revisiting. Anton Corbijn is putting out a book on Tom Waits photos, fittingly titled Waits/Corbijn. “Five Pirate Books for the Perverted Reader” seems like an okay follow up to a bite on Tom Waits. Morrissey refers to himself in the third person, and hates EMI. In Venezuela, golf is a sport for bourgeois swine. In America, Tiger Woods still dominates. Tevye the Milkman on his final stretch. (Thanks Tablet) The Guardian picks [...]
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