Swinging Modern Sounds #92: Perfection
You will now find some version of the list below. It is imperfect.
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Posts Tagged: Nick Hornby
Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living edited by Manjula Martin
Today in Rumpus Books, Elizabeth Stark reviews Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, edited by Manjula Martin.
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The Rumpus Interview with Nina Stibbe
Author Nina Stibbe discusses her new novel Paradise Lodge, our obsession with character likeability, and how she more than flirts with feminism.
...moreSchool of (an Author’s) Life
Turns out writing projects and homework assignments are pretty much the same! Over at McSweeney’s, Nick Hornby offers his son eight handy excuses, learned over the course of Hornby’s own thirty-year career, for not handing in his school assignments.
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Rock & Home
Can domestic life and rock & roll flourish together in contemporary novels? Should they?
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The Rumpus Interview with Bud Smith
Novelist Bud Smith talks about his new book, F-250, working construction and metalworking, finding writing after his friend’s death, and crashing his car over and over again.
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The Last Book I Loved: Dear Lil Wayne
During the eight months he was sentenced to Rikers Island, a poet named Lauren Ireland wrote postcards to Lil Wayne. The rapper never responded, but the writer compiled them into a tiny purple book.
...moreHornby Keeps It Fresh
For the Atlantic, Jennie Rothenberg Gritz interviews Nick Hornby about his new book Funny Girl and his experience adapting Cheryl Strayed’s Wild for the big screen. While Hornby says he would not consider writing a screenplay based on his own books, adapting other authors’ work has helped him to mix things up and “keep things fresh”: A lot of what Funny […]
...moreNotable NYC: 1/31–2/6
Saturday 1/31: The TEAM reads Five Plays by the TEAM. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Monday 2/2: Paul Fischer discusses A Kim Jong-Il Production, a look at North Korea’s propaganda machine. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Tuesday 2/3: Rebecca Scherm discusses her debut novel Unbecoming about an art heist with Helen Petersen. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.
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The Saturday Rumpus Review of Wild
In simplicity there is truth, and being out in wide open spaces often has a way, like high-speed rail, to bring us back to simple things.
...moreWomen Are More Interesting
Nick Hornby often ends up fielding questions from fans eager to understand why he frequently writes about women, especially since he’s a man. Many of his novels feature female protagonists, and his second career as a screenwriter includes what he calls the “young girl trilogy.” It’s not a coincidence that women are the center of […]
...moreDear Sugar, You Are Now Being Played by Reese Witherspoon
Here’s an informative little roundup of book news from the New Yorker‘s book-news blog. Highlights include a 300-year-old cookbook, a “‘new type of fragmentation’ in contemporary literature,” and oh yeah—Reese Witherspoon is officially going to play our very own Cheryl Strayed in the movie adaptation of of her memoir Wild. Get psyched by reading through the […]
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