“Story of a Book Cover”
“[…] but I was worried that there was something else out there that we hadn’t thought of.” Ethan Watters, author of Urban Tribes, discusses his experiences choosing a cover for…
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Sam J. Miller’s 25-Word Reviews #2
Paranormal Activity (movie, dir. Oren Peli, 2009) Above-average scary. Neat pacing. Best with a full house in big cities. Overheard: “This is dumb good,” “We’re gonna have to get the…
“C-A-P-P-U-C-C-I-N-O”
Rumpus New York Bureau Chief Rozalia Jovanovic has published a subjective account of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses‘ spelling bee: “James Frey, Ben Greenman and Maira Kalman Spell…
Random Media Notes
Why turn your blog back into a printed book? “Blog Bound” “Visit 200 web pages in a day, see on average 490,000 words; War and Peace was only 460,000 words.”…
So I’m Guessing There’s No Second Edition
A charming find on eBay: a 1927 guide on How to Play the Cinema Organ published at the exact moment that talkies were about to rub out the profession. The…
Morning Coffee
Why do three buses come at once and what can we do to avoid it? Slate looks at tombstone portraiture. Jellyfish! Bank robbery notes. (via Gerrycanavan.) Mathlete takes on the…
The Rumpus Interview with Molly Crabapple
Molly Crabapple is an artist, model, entrepreneur, and one-woman pen-and-ink revolution. She’s probably best known as the founder of the worldwide burlesque life drawing phenomenon, Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, which…
Bolaño, Inc.: Moya Contrasts the Myth with the Man
Horacio Castellanos Moya, author of Senselessness and eight other books, has written a piece about the “construction of the ‘Bolaño myth’ in the United States” that contrasts this myth with the man…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #8
A HAT MY NEPHEW FOUND ON THE BUS ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing a…
A Window’s for Looking Into
Robin Ekiss’s debut collection of poems explores the relationship between the past and the present with strength, clarity, and emotional intimacy.