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Afternoon Bites: Antonio di Benedetto’s “Zama,” John Hughes, Lauryn Hill, Joshua Mohr’s Class, and More

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Afternoon Bites: Making “O Superman,” Mitchell S. Jackson Documentary, Bill Callahan Interviewed, and More

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Afternoon Bites: Lee Rourke Fiction, Molly Crabapple on Abu Dhabi, Great Baseball Essays, Elliott Smith Documentary, and More

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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

“The faux-democratic ideal of plain-spokenness, the sense that a novelist should not write too beautifully or he sacrifices some vaguely articulated, semi-mystical claim to honesty, is not a million miles away from the Sarah Palin-ish suspicion of east coast liberals, or a Harvard education, or people who know the dates of wars.” – Katie Roiphe feels it necessary to go on the defensive for John Updike on the anniversary of his death.

Ben Shattuck at The Morning News on historians studying the cause of the Salem witch trials and history being an “imperfect science.” Douglas Rushkoff on making the leap fro media theory to fiction. Mort Persky at the Los Angeles Review of Books on the art of the newspaper column. The Rumpus talks to Chelsea Wolfe. Watch a teaser of the Bill Callahan tour documentary at Pitchfork.

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Bill Callahan’s Book, Letters to Emma Bowlcut, is out in Seventeen Days

On July 3, 2010 By Jason Diamond

One of my favorite songwriters, Bill Callahan (formerly known as Smog), has a book coming up on Drag City:

Letters to Emma Bowlcut , an epistolary novelette, collects sixty two letters from a nameless protagonist to a woman he saw at a party. The letters form the seduction, in sifting the loose, disparate details of his day to day — the desires, the frustrations, the joys. The self as depicted through emotional weather updates, social observations, anecdotes, advice, and well-timed punchlines.
Letters to Emma Bowlcut captures the sensual and esoteric qualities of letter correspondence. There is something in the time it takes the post to deliver and the physicality of the object that eventually arrives that evokes an intimacy, a depth; a desire to be known and an opportunity to present oneself in the internal fantasy of everyday’s secret internal dialogue.

Afternoon Bites: Antonio di Benedetto’s “Zama,” John Hughes, Lauryn Hill, Joshua Mohr’s Class, and More

Afternoon Bites: Making “O Superman,” Mitchell S. Jackson Documentary, Bill Callahan Interviewed, and More

Afternoon Bites: Lee Rourke Fiction, Molly Crabapple on Abu Dhabi, Great Baseball Essays, Elliott Smith Documentary, and More

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

Bill Callahan’s Book, Letters to Emma Bowlcut, is out in Seventeen Days

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