In our morning reading: interviews with Ryan Chapman and Camille DeAngelis, new poetry from Melissa Broder, Brandon Stosuy on Sufjan Stevens’s new album, and more.
In our afternoon reading: Zadie Smith on Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele; thoughts on books by Natalie Eilbert, Andrew Worthington, and Diane Cook; new Cesar Aira fiction; a Sufjan Stevens interview; and more.
Revisiting Twin Peaks, Emma Straub on fictional vacations, Sarah Gerard on veganism and radical politics, Sufjan Stevens and Arthur Russell, The Dissolve on James Franco’s Child of God adaptation, and more.
Posted by Jason Diamond Everybody and their mother, father, great uncle, and babies daddies are talking about the first Sufjan track off his upcoming album, The Age of Adz. And for good reason: it’s fucking incredible. It’s weird, glitchy, Prince-y, pretty, and all sort of other things that make me feel good. Listen: Sufjan Stevens – “I Walked” This Small Black track, “Photojournalist,” sounds like a weeble wobble dance party or a warped cassette tape of The Lost Boys soundtrack. […]
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A bunch of people at the New York Review of Books ask that question “What is an Andy Warhol?” I guess this self-portrait would count. Lit. You can’t stop another Dave Eggers-related film from being made. You just can’t “Hyperbolic? Perhaps, but the sentiment is genuine.” Chuck Palahniuk’s blog weighs in on the Paris Review Interviews. So does The Millions. Richard Rushfield wrote a book about going to Hampshire College, and likes Pere Ubu, Joy Division, and Dinosaur Jr. I […]
Some guy at NYU “intends to turn all 6,438 sentences of the great Herman Melville (Moby-Dick)opus into Japanese Emoji, rather picturesque emoticons that are on most handsets in Japan.” Lit. Lit Drift talks about Neil Gaiman’s Twitter fiction contest. Melville House named best small press of the year! Maud Newton talks R. Crumb and Chick tract’s. Featherproof Books has an iPhone app. (thanks The Scowl) The Millions gives us a comedic translation of The Road. L Magazine talks to writer […]
Stephen Elliott hung out in Williamsburg (went hard, if you will) and wrote about it on The Rumpus. Lit. Largehearted Boy reviews Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked. McSweeney’s to publish an old-fashioned, Sunday edition-sized broadsheet: San Francisco Panorama Jonathan Lethem recommends on Daily Beast Edgar Allen Poe’s only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and describes it as “the missing link between Mary Shelley and Herman Melville.” My kind of narrative. On Willa Cather’s development as a novelist. […]