Features & Reviews
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 10/26 – 11/1
In San Francisco this week, David Sedaris, a night with Kevin Smith, the SF Jewish BookFest, and a Haunted Laundromat. Monday 10/26: Learn more about one of the cornerstones of civilization as we know it: water. An official Sundance Selection,…
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Notable New York, This Week 10/26 – 11/1
In New York this week, James Frey and Maira Kalman at the CLMP Spelling Bee, members of The National collaborate with visual artist Matthew Ritchie in The Long Count at BAM, Sherman Alexie and Chuck Klosterman read, Guernica Magazine turns…
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Emails From Gitmo, Read With a Drawl
At the website for the PEN American Center they’ve posted the audio and a transcription of Jonathan Ames reading FBI emails from Guantanamo Bay. There is something strangely enlightening about Ames’ drone. It’s almost judgement-less, allowing the listener to listen…
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James Franco’s Face: A Subjective Account of the New Yorker Festival
Friday October 16, the New Yorker opened its annual weekend festival of readings, conversations, art tours and musical performances. This is my account of the events I attended, which included among others a talk with Malcolm Gladwell, readings by George…
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A Recipe to Ruin Your Sunday
The Guardian pointed out Wednesday that every Life Magazine is now available at Google Books, and now, thanks to them, my week has been ruined. And now I’ve ruined yours! There is so much to find. The Guardian discovered this…
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The Racist Velvet Rope
Teri Woods, a “pioneer … urban or hip-hop fiction” author, recently tried to have a party to celebrate the release of her new book Alibi in a Soho night club called Greenhouse. When she got there, she found that some white…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
It’s Sunday, and, as always, The Rumpus is here to round up some blogs for you. Stephen King is waiting a month after the release of his new hardback to start selling an electronic version. Also, the e-book will cost…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
It’s Sunday, which means Rumpus Books has a week’s worth of book reviews for you, plus two interviews, a conversation about the future of the Internet, and an essay on E-Books, all below the fold.
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Iron Chef
A jilted lover expresses her lust, hatred, and remorse through exquisite courses of caviar, duck, and tongue.
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Things to Think About: Publishing Links
Richard Nash on “The Continuous Permanent Reinvention of Publishing” Booksellers ask the Justice Department to investigate the book price war under way between Wal-Mart, Amazon and Target. Google opponents urge court not to restrict comments on a revised book search…
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Booty Hunting for the Brainy
Bibliophiles of the world, take note: if you are not an inhabitant of the Twin Cities, you could be missing a chance to put your literary acumen to practical use. The literati of the “most literate city of 2008” have…
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Conversations About the Internet #3: Jonathan Zittrain on Civility and Freedom Online
I think we’re really at a place where it’s hard to predict the future, where governments haven’t fully realized just how much power is falling into their laps, nor have people realized how much power they stand to lose.