The Man Booker longlist gets a lovely overview and thorough follow-up from Max. Meanwhile, the prize has thrown discussion boards online, where a popular topic is Banville Is God – has Mark been busy?
Man Booker nominee David Mitchell (for Black Swan Green) is podcast in the second part by Bat Segundo. The first part was most excellent and I’m loading the second half onto the iPod.
With all the dust-up about Marisha Pessl, I just have to ask … But can she dance? Because Andrea Seigel sure can, as she’s demonstrating at California readings for her second novel, To Feel Stuff. Check out Andrea’s Paperhaus podcast at right for a peek into the work in progress.
Not sure about dancing, but Owen King can write while listening to Wings. He tells Largehearted Boy that it’s not about quality, it’s about comfort: "Writing is a nervous business; for the most part, your only supervisor
is yourself, and that?s the same guy who ratified this ridiculous
career in the first place. This is why the later works of Paul
McCartney are a perfect soundtrack for writing ? they are the
antithesis of nervous." That’s enough to make me hop out and pick up a copy of his debut collection, We’re All In This Together.
Galleycat’s hotties of publishing contest is on! The ladies had more fun with the glamour shots than the men, I’m afraid. Where’s a little Norman Mailer bluster when you need it?
There’s a high school meme going around and if it makes you think of Emilio, Molly, Judd and Anthony Michael, you’re in luck. Don’t You Forget About Me – a film lookng back at The Breakfast Club and the better-than-average teen films of the ’80s – is in the works (via Stereogum). Y’know, I wrote the John-Hughes-as-Auteur paper in college, too.
I voted for Michael Stearns for boy hottie because he’s really hot in real life, too. And has a gigantic — brain.
And who can resist Alison Janssen. Roller Derby league – le swoon!