Jami Attenberg: The Last Book I Loved, Everything Matters!
I was going to write this piece about A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, which is also a very good book, one that I loved, and one I recommend…
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You Don’t Know Me: Bomb, Opium, Gigantic New York Summer Soiree
Get ready to get your rocks off. Literary art mags Bomb, Opium and Gigantic are joining forces to host a night of short artistic/musical/literary programs this Wednesday, August 26th at…
Poetics and Slaughter
2005 saw the seventieth anniversary of the birth of Danilo Kiš. He died of lung cancer in 1989.
Morning Coffee
Adaptive re-use of crashed starships. If presenting Wuthering Heights like a new Stephenie Meyer gets people reading, does it matter? Scientists draw squid using its 150 million-year-old fossilised ink. A…
Claire Denis Symposium at Reverse Shot
Reverse Shot — a geeky film journal that I recently discovered and have found interesting — has devoted the bulk of issue #25 to a symposium on the influential French…
Prepay is On; Let’s Talk Till My Minutes Are Gone
Juxtapoz has a post up about a big mural project in Philly that Stephen Powers (aka ESPO) is organizing and participating in: Love Letter. From the post (which was taken…
Stand Proud
“There’s a blurb on the front of the 2008 paperback edition of Elmer Kelton’s novel Stand Proud. It’s from True West magazine, and it reads, ‘One thing is certain: as…
Crafty Cardboard
In ninth grade we all took some kind of school district test that was supposed to provide career guidance based on your personal preferences. There were lots of questions —…
No Jackets
“What makes these books so unusual-looking is that, even though they’re hardcovers, their cover art is not printed on dust jackets but instead stamped directly onto the boards that hug…
Random Media Notes
JPMorgan is now nation’s number one publisher. Outed blogger says Google failed to protect her right to privacy. Slate introduces new news aggregrator, “The Slatest.” Glenn Beck loses even more…