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Random Media Notes
Wikipedia’s “freewheeling ethos is about to be curbed.” Journalists hoping to embed with U.S. forces in Afghanistan may be screened by a Washington P.R. firm hired by the Pentagon. R.I.P. GeoCities. HBO is considering a show based on “Savage Love”…
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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 you read. I recently Netflixed “Apocalypse Now,” which for some…
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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 Bowery Electric to benefit their efforts in literature and art.…
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Poetics and Slaughter
2005 saw the seventieth anniversary of the birth of Danilo Kiš. He died of lung cancer in 1989.
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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 look inside Writers’ Rooms. I love ewe (eww).
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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 director Claire Denis. Fourteen authors take on nine of Denis’…
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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 from the project website): “Love Letter is literally a love…
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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 long as there are writers as skillful as Elmer Kelton,…
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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 — about classes, grades, interests, etc. — and at the end…
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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 their pages. The result is a handsome, eye-catching look that…