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Morning Bites: “not beat poets,” last Sonic Youth show, Victorian hoarders, animating Bolaño, and more

On November 21, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Vol. 1 Presents: Civic Pride: New Jersey

On October 11, 2011 By Jason Diamond

“Jersey’s where America’s at!” – Some guy in Todd Solondz’s Storytelling.

What’s the deal with New Jersey? On one hand it’s the great state that has given us talents from Philip Roth to Patti Smith, and on the other it’s the ongoing punchline for a thousand snobbish jokes told by New Yorkers who seem obvious as to the true greatness of the Garden State. It’s the state that hosted the first recorded baseball game, the home of Thomas Edison, the grower of the greatest tomatoes on the East Coast, and the place that gave us Bruce Springsteen. Its [...]
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Band Booking: Amy Klein of Titus Andronicus

On February 14, 2011 By Jason Diamond

We usually like to keep Band Booking to a few questions, but when Amy Klein submitted this essay about Patti Smith, there was really no way we were going to turn it down for a few reasons:

1. Amy Klein rules.

2. We love Patti Smith.

3. Amy is in Titus Andronicus. They’re maybe the best rock n’ roll band on the planet right now. She also does a side project called Hilly Eye that we really like also.

Patti Smith, Magic, and Me

During the first meeting of my poetry class, my teacher [...]
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Passover Bites: Franzen’s Cover, Warhol’s Pals, Cheever’s Story, Atwood’s Addiction, Kerman’s Excerpt, Neil Young on Skype, and More

On March 30, 2010 By Jason Diamond

Jonathan Franzen has a new novel coming out and The Millions show us the cover.
The New Republic posted a John Cheever story from 1936. Margaret Atwood might need a Twitter intervention. Levi Asher on Reality Hunger. An excerpt from Piper Kerman’s book, Orange is the New Black. Andy Warhol had a lot of friends that he took pictures of. Neil Young, Jonathan Demme, and Skype. Titus Andronicus and rock from New Jersey. Bluto, Otter, D-Day, Boehner, Cantor, Brown, and [...]
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Weekend Bites: New Jersey Rock, Dr. Seuss on the Couch, Twain’s Political Legacy, Portnoy Turns Forty, and More

On March 14, 2010 By Jason Diamond

In the New York Times: Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, and New Jersey rock

Speaking of T.A., Pitchfork basically echo my statement made a few weeks back, about the bands newest album, The Monitor, being one of the best albums of the year.
Levi Asher plays analyst on Dr. Seuss. The enduring political wisdom of Mark Twain. Portnoy’s Complaint is 40. “Can you turn a J.D. Salinger into a Mark Cuban?” Huh? Indie rock and classical composers: the list. L [...]
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This New Titus Andronicus Album…

On March 3, 2010 By Jason Diamond

The Monitor, is going to end up being the best real rock n’ roll album of the year. Mark my words.
Village Voice profiles the band.
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Bites: Philip Marlowe, Kevin Sampsell Picks, “Literary Hipsters”, Titus Andronicus on The Awl, and More

On December 31, 2009 By Jason Diamond

An essay on Raymond Chandler’s iconic character, Philip Marlowe. (Thanks 3:AM Magazine)
Kevin Sampsell picks 9 of the best books from indie publishers. “Literary hipsters” Blake Butler, Tao Lin, Stephen Elliott, and Miranda July’s favorite books of the year. One of those “literary hipsters” wants you to donate his book. T.S. Eliot wrote a letter. The Awl meets Titus Andronicus.
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Bites: Eating Meat Around Safran Foer, Nextbook Makes a Friend, Talking to Martin Amis, and More

On December 15, 2009 By Jason Diamond

Pizza meets math.

Lit.
Good for you Greg Kuntzman, ordering a chicken sandwich when talking to Jonathan Safran Foer. Paul Auster has a cool daughter. Nextbook announce a new “partnership” with record label, JDub Records. The Guardian gives us their books of the decade. HTMLGiant picks the most important poetry books of the 00′s. An interview with Martin Amis.
New albums
Titus Andronicus covering the Civil War on their next album.
Interviews
The Rumpus [...]
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