Weekend Bites: Truman and Harry, David Byrne on Kindle, good friends-bad novels, Naked Lunch at 50, and more.

I always said Truman Capote knew the boy wizard, and nobody believed me. So I guess I shouldn’t buy Mastering the Art of French Cooking because “unfortunately, that will probably send even more Meryl Streep wannabes straight to bookstores looking for food porn. And they will be sold bibles.”  Bummer (Slate) David Byrne: Kindle DRM means “you are f*cked” (Thanks Boing Boing) Two A.V. Chicago writers ask if Ferris Bueller was true to it’s Chicago backdrop Jens Lekman will play […]

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Bites: Typewriters, “The Man”, Infinite Summer has some competition, Julia Childs is on top, Dinosaur Jr. rock Cape Cod, GreenPunk, and more

Boing Boing appreciates an old, forgotten typewriter. McSweeney’s shakes things up by interviewing “The Man”. Infinite Summer make way for Finite Summer. I wish they would have stopped at “The world certainly doesn’t need another comedy starring Michael Cera as a hapless teenager blundering his way into improbable sexual encounters“. Julia Childs has finally made it. According to The Millions, Quentin Tarantino, “thinks like a writer.” The New Yorker on Quentin’s pal (and one of the stars of “Inglourious Basterds”) […]

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Bites: Typewriters, “The Man,” Infinite Summer has some competition, Julia Childs is on top, Dinosaur Jr. rock Cape Cod, GreenPunk, and more

Boing Boing appreciates an old, forgotten typewriter. McSweeney’s shakes things up by interviewing “The Man”. Infinite Summer make way for Finite Summer. I wish they would have stopped at “The world certainly doesn’t need another comedy starring Michael Cera as a hapless teenager blundering his way into improbable sexual encounters“. Julia Childs has finally made it. According to The Millions, Quentin Tarantino, “thinks like a writer.” The New Yorker on Quentin’s pal (and one of the stars of “Inglourious Basterds”), Eli […]

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