Morning Bites: Clinton on Caro, HBO Corrections no More, 33 1/3, Sam McPheeters, and More

Bill Clinton’s New York Times review of Robert Caro’s latest L.B.J. biography is up. HBO not going forward with The Corrections. Benjamin Samuels of Electric Literature talks at Huffington Post about loving books but trying to get people to read them on computers and tablets. Why do we love bad guys like Gordon Gekko and Patrick Bateman? Emily Savage talks to Sam McPheeters about his book The Look of the Ruin. In case you were curious about what albums were […]

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Norris Church Mailer’s Obituary

Posted by Jason Diamond Norris Church Mailer died.   I guess Norris will always be known as being married to genius/pig/total prick/genius, Norman Mailer.  She will also be known for writing a book about being married to Norman — the one that tells you more than you ever wanted to know about their sex life. She is also the person who’s New York Times obituary ends with this: Before she met Mr. Mailer, she claimed, she had a fling with the […]

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Bites: Bill and Malcolm, Les Paul, punk rock names, McSweeney’s likes prog rock, and more

I read one of the same blogs as Bill Clinton? Cool! Bill Clinton likes Malcolm Gladwell? Okay… That’s cool too! (I think?) I think if Largehearted Boy was meant to ask anybody their playlist, it would have to be the founder of Gigposters.com, Clay Hayes. Today he did just that. Yeh, we aren’t crazy about guns either. Chicago Sun Times on the passing of Les Paul. Carrie Brownstein of Monitor Mix on “Punk Rock Monikers“ You should always care about […]

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