Bites: Leo Tolstoy in Chechnya, American Translations, Loving Zadie Smith, and More

Chechnya loves Leo Tolstoy. PRI on the evolution of Sherlock Holmes. James Iha of The Smashing Pumpkins is a fan of Christopher Hitchens. The Millions review Richard Rushfield’s Don’t Follow me I’m Lost. The Faster Times breaks down where America is translating from. Nathan Heller on Zadie Smith: both an envy object and a kind of hero WFMU gives us their top ten magazines that folded in 2009 list. Termites making it hard for a Brooklyn library to open. A […]

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Bites: An Andy Warhol, Unstoppable Eggers, Paris Review, Stephen King Doing Vampires, Chuck Biscuits Ain’t Dead, Sufjan, and more.

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 […]

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