2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hella takins today dudes. Take THAT Salman Rushdie. 2011 is the year of invisible clothing. (which is a pretty dumb year, you know?) Insect meat is the answer to all our prayers, questions, and concerns. There is no reason to…
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Why Are You a Prostitute?
This is a response for Bedelia, who commented profusely about sex work, house moms, and her experience as a hooker for ten years on an earlier piece I wrote for The Rumpus.
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RedState ♥s Donald (Not Really)
“Doofuses,” “goofballs,” “self-aware parasites,” and “political pornographers.” The folks over at RedState use some pretty fun words to describe Donald authors Stephen Elliott and Eric Martin (as well as the book’s publisher, McSweeney’s) in a rather rant-y post about the…
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“Band Booking”
Jason Diamond over at Vol. 1 Brooklyn has kicked off a new series, Band Booking, where musicians talk books. The first installment features “composer, violinist, keyboardist and songwriter” Owen Pallett discussing David Mitchell, H.P. Lovecraft, and not being the biggest…
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“Dear Marlon…”
“I’m praying that you’ll buy On the Road and make a movie of it…. I visualize the beautiful shots could be made with the camera on the front seat of the car showing the road (day and night) unwinding into…
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FUNNY WOMEN #42: The Best-Selling Story of All Time
The five most popular words in best-selling books are (source: Time magazine): 1. man 2. diet 3. house 4. woman 5. sex/sexual
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Where’s Your Hometown?
Michael Chabon ruminates on the concept of “hometown” while discussing his novel-in-progress, Telegraph Avenue.
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“Office and Denunciation”
“I offer myself to be devoured by Spanish peasants…” A previously undiscovered draft of Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Office and Denunciation,” a poem in which Lorca draws a “portrait of the United States during the Great Depression,” has been found. (via…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The iPhone arrives on Verizon! But it might not make sense to get one right away… The Internet’s next big rumor is concerned with a round of impending MySpace layoffs. Are data-hogging Windows products still surprising to anyone? Korean director Chan-wook Park’s…
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An Essay Not to Miss
“The esteemed Steve Almond delivers the best take – and best-written essay – I’ve seen on the Giffords shooting.” David Sirota praises Steve Almond’s “Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand.” (via TruthDig, who also gave Steve’s essay love. Thanks TruthDig!)