June 2010
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#booksthatchangedmyworld
I apparently missed this tweetmeme the first time it came around, but when I saw it yesterday, I knew I’d wind up writing about it, just because books have always, it seems, been an important part of my life. Important…
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A Very Expensive Typewriter
Not that any of us can afford it, but Jack Kerouac’s last typewriter, a green Hermes 3000, is on the auction block at Christie’s. How do you folks feel about the monetization of writing “relics”? (via The Book Bench)
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Happy Bloomsday!
“I began wondering. If Ulysses was the Jewish Ulysses—and the Irish Ulysses, too, one would think—shouldn’t other cultures have Ulyssi of their own? Having worked as a weekly book reviewer, I came across marketese like this all the time: ‘Known…
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Simplify Me When I’m Dead
Keith Douglas has largely ceased to exist to most readers beyond those attracted to war as a subject. The reissue of Simplify Me When I’m Dead, containing forty-one poems, aims to correct that.
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Morning Coffee
Looking for a job? Perhaps you’d like to be a fake Chinese businessman. Caterpillars all pretending to be snakes and such. Dang man! I-swear-this-isn’t-an-Onion-article of the day: Ozzy Osbourne’s geonome to be mapped to ascertain why he is alive. Tree…
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Oh So Furry: The Rumpus Interview with Kilcodo
Kilcodo is a friend of mine; she makes a living making full-body fursuits for other furries. She also moonlights as a lemur. The other night she let me interview her, and get to know her lemur persona, Bingo.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Death of Bunny Munro
This novel is a delightfully raunchy tale. If you crave raunch; to be torn open and fucked up, The Death of Bunny Munro delivers. Munro has all the elements I love. I love surprises. I love pussy. I love beautiful…