Everybody dance now
I’ve become marginally obsessed with the 33 1/3 series, despite the fact that none of their authors seem to be headed to Los Angeles. People, I’m here for you. So…
Category Archives: online
among the worthy
The hardworking Dan Wickett is at it again, this time presenting a panel of scruffy, ne’er do well litbloggers. I’m in there someplace, along with Levi Asher of Litkicks Darby…
While I was out
Laura Albert was found to have defrauded the film company that optioned J.T. Leroy’s novel “Sarah.” There was no Leroy, of course, just Savannah Knoop in a wig and Laura…
midday linkage
James Joyce for the summer – give Ulysses a listen. Here’s a portrait of The Mupsimus as a young man. Largehearted boy has got a playlist from Min Jin Lee,…
Washing up in the archives
Maybe you’ve been hearing a lot about On Chesil Beach, the new shortish novel from Ian McEwan. Me, I queued up for a copy at BEA — to be signed…
From the department of misused adjectives
Tell me, NY Times Book Review: can flourescent lighting really be “Dickensian”? That’s about as logical as calling Marilyn Manson Nabakovian.
If I only had a brain
Just when I thought I’d been getting serious work done, Carrie goes and and starts memorizing Paradise Lost. John Fox has read and reviewed Divisadero, and I haven’t yet gotten…
Slowing down, rounding up
From temporary paperhaus HQ in Seattle: If bloggers are ignorant blowhards, so was Steinbeck. Paris gets sent back to jail, and my one-time boss has to tell the media. Contrary…
Beer, books and bonfires
Howard Junker+Ed Champion+San Francisco=PBR. When it comes to books, buy local. I guess the same goes for beer. Book sellers become book burners: Tod Goldberg has found the fucktards of…
Here, there and elsewhere
Speaking of colonial America, LA writer Charles Rappleye’s book Sons of Providence on the slave-trading slash abolitionist Brown brothers — founders of Brown University — has just won the George…
