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(Number One Hit Song reviews Simon Reynolds' Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84, which I'm looking forward to reading.)
Number One Hit Song reviews Simon Reynolds' Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84, which I'm looking forward to reading.
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(Austin folks: You should really, really come to Monkeywrench Books at 7 pm tonight to see Ethan Clarke and friends present Stories Care Forgot: An Anthology of New Orleans Zines. Monkeywrench is ...)
Austin folks: You should really, really come to Monkeywrench Books at 7 pm tonight to see Ethan Clarke and friends present Stories Care Forgot: An Anthology of New Orleans Zines. Monkeywrench is at 110 E. North Loop (at Avenue F), near The Parlor, where you can totally go for pizza and beer afterwards. You should also make time to go to Staple!: The Independent Media Expo, which is tomorrow from 10 am to 6 pm at the Red Oak Ballroom at Northcross Mall. The Austin Chronicle and Austinist have more. And, you know, say hi if you see me at either one.
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(Ben Macintyre rewrites the endings of sad books to make them happy, and the endings of happy books to make them sad. Pride and Prejudice could be rendered less saccharine by introducing the scene ...)
Ben Macintyre rewrites the endings of sad books to make them happy, and the endings of happy books to make them sad. Pride and Prejudice could be rendered less saccharine by introducing the scene where Darcy explains to Elizabeth that it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune still in want of a wife is obviously gay, so he is moving to Tangiers to live with Wickham.
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(I didn't do much at Comic Con other than hide in my friend Anne's Vertical booth, where they were promoting the final installment of their excellent Buddha series. It looks like kids' stuff, but ...)
I didn't do much at Comic Con other than hide in my friend Anne's Vertical booth, where they were promoting the final installment of their excellent Buddha series. It looks like kids' stuff, but as she explained to a librarian while I drank my Publisher's Weekly cocktail that tasted like cherry cough drops, there's some nudity, etc. But in case that librarian looking for graphic novels is reading the blog today, Sequential Tart has an excellent list of comics for kids and teens.
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(Tony Blair's favorite books include a three volume biography of Leon Trotsky, Kidnapped, and Flat Stanley.)
Tony Blair's favorite books include a three volume biography of Leon Trotsky, Kidnapped, and Flat Stanley.
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(Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL and author of With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose, is considering a run for the US Senate from Pennsylvania ...)
Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL and author of With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose, is considering a run for the US Senate from Pennsylvania (currently held by Rick Santorum). The presumptive Democratic nominee is Bob Casey Jr., who is anti-choice.
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(The Calls of Cthulhu. PHONE COMPANY: Please stay on the line while we connect you to an operator. (CTHULHU waits.) PHONE COMPANY: Hello, you have reached the Arkham Phone Company. Our goal is to ...)
The Calls of Cthulhu. PHONE COMPANY: Please stay on the line while we connect you to an operator. (CTHULHU waits.) PHONE COMPANY: Hello, you have reached the Arkham Phone Company. Our goal is to make your phone service the best ... (CTHULHU hangs up. CTHULHU quietly weeps.)
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(The oddest book title of the year, according to Bookseller magazine: People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves To Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It.)
The oddest book title of the year, according to Bookseller magazine: People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves To Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It.
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What is all the buzz about?
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(Kimberly Maul looks at the literary adaptations that will play a role in this year's Academy Awards. Also be sure to read our own Liz Miller's take on the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees. It ...)
Kimberly Maul looks at the literary adaptations that will play a role in this year's Academy Awards. Also be sure to read our own Liz Miller's take on the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees. It should be pretty interesting if Brokeback Mountain wins, you can witness a possibly historic turning point for gay-themed cinema and literature. And if Crash wins, you can witness the death of art.
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(Stephen Bayley considers "good bad books." Good bad books are not the same as books that are merely bad. Good bad is more subtle. A good bad book is one that achieves a surprisingly exhilarating ...)
Stephen Bayley considers "good bad books." Good bad books are not the same as books that are merely bad. Good bad is more subtle. A good bad book is one that achieves a surprisingly exhilarating effect despite flaws of style and construction, which disqualify it as (what Updike calls) "literature." Significantly, good bad books translate very well into film, perhaps suggesting that cinema is an intellectually and artistically undemanding medium. "The Guns of Navarone," "The Graduate" and "Jaws," for example, were feeble literature but made magnificent movies.
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(Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club, says she converted to Catholicism to stop drinking. I went to Catholic school for twelve years. It had the opposite effect.)
Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club, says she converted to Catholicism to stop drinking. I went to Catholic school for twelve years. It had the opposite effect.
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The Vatican's "chief exorcist" says the Harry Potter books could turn kids into Satanists.
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(Nominees for the Independent's Foreign Fiction Prize: Fatelessness by Imre Kertz Mercedes-Benz by Pawel Huelle The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic The Door by Magda Szab This Blinding Absence ...)
Nominees for the Independent's Foreign Fiction Prize: Fatelessness by Imre Kertz Mercedes-Benz by Pawel Huelle The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic The Door by Magda Szab This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
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(If you need other reasons to read Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys -- other than the fact that it got rave reviews, ended up on a lot of best-of lists last year, and is in fact a book by Neil Gaiman -- ...)
If you need other reasons to read Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys -- other than the fact that it got rave reviews, ended up on a lot of best-of lists last year, and is in fact a book by Neil Gaiman -- let some Polish actors convince you. Gaiman's Polish publisher has created an ad for the book, and it's kind of great in a I-have-no-idea-what's-going-on kind of way. But I haven't had my tea yet this morning so everything sort of feels that way right now.
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(Is your professor the kind of communist America-hater that David Horowitz warned about in his book? Circle Jerk at the Square Dance presents a handy guide you can use to tell whether your teacher ...)
Is your professor the kind of communist America-hater that David Horowitz warned about in his book? Circle Jerk at the Square Dance presents a handy guide you can use to tell whether your teacher is biased or not. Literary studies Literature can teach us much about the how we interact with our fellow men and women Biased Literature can teach us much about how college kids are boinking like heathens Not Biased Great novelists: Steinbeck, Faulkner, Morisson, Woolf, Ellison Biased Great novelists: Rand, Clancy, Gingrich, OReilly, and more Rand Not Biased
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How to game the essay portion of the SAT.
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(Winona Ryder told Vanity Fair in 2003 that she went to an opera with JT Leroy, reports Jossip. "...We went to this diner afterward and talked. I wanted to take care of him, have him move in, but ...)
Winona Ryder told Vanity Fair in 2003 that she went to an opera with JT Leroy, reports Jossip. "...We went to this diner afterward and talked. I wanted to take care of him, have him move in, but he said he was heading back south. I fell in love with him. And I've been in love with him ever since." I guess you could say that he...stole her heart! Ha ha ha! Wait, are we still doing Winona Ryder/shoplifting jokes? No? OK. Then I got nothing.
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(The AP profiles Dan Futterman, who is nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar for his adaptation of Gerald Clarke's Capote: A Biography. Other notable screenwriting nominees include Woody Allen ...)
The AP profiles Dan Futterman, who is nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar for his adaptation of Gerald Clarke's Capote: A Biography. Other notable screenwriting nominees include Woody Allen (Match Point), Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain), and a retarded chipmunk (Crash).
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(The International Herald Tribune looks at some independent British presses, and has a list of UK-based small publishing houses. Several Bookslut favorites especially Canongate and Persephone ...)
The International Herald Tribune looks at some independent British presses, and has a list of UK-based small publishing houses. Several Bookslut favorites especially Canongate and Persephone are mentioned. (Though it would've been nice to see the great Serpent's Tail get some well-deserved attention.)
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(The Los Angeles Times profiles Kate Braverman (Bookslut interview here). She says she sometimes wrote "Lithium for Medea" during the drug rush after injecting cocaine, taking care to do so in her ...)
The Los Angeles Times profiles Kate Braverman (Bookslut interview here). She says she sometimes wrote "Lithium for Medea" during the drug rush after injecting cocaine, taking care to do so in her kitchen, so the blood could be easily wiped off the linoleum, instead of in the living room, where it might stain the rug. From 1971 until 1985, she said, "I was a total cocaine addict." She relapsed in the early 1990s, smoking heroin, for "several grotesque years," she said. Such drug use, she says, gets female writers written off. But when male writers such as William Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson used drugs to fuel their creativity, "people lionize them as geniuses," she said.
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(The Harvard Crimson profiles expository writing instructor Damon Krukowski, the former drummer for Galaxie 500 (Today), and half of the ethereal indie band Damon & Naomi (The Earth Is Blue).)
The Harvard Crimson profiles expository writing instructor Damon Krukowski, the former drummer for Galaxie 500 (Today), and half of the ethereal indie band Damon & Naomi (The Earth Is Blue).
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Malcolm Gladwell has a blog. (Via Bookninja.)
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(Didn't anyone read And the Ass Saw the Angel? Or has no one listened to his music? You don't ask Nick Cave to write the screenplay for Gladiator II. "Luckily, it was so completely unacceptable ...)
Didn't anyone read And the Ass Saw the Angel? Or has no one listened to his music? You don't ask Nick Cave to write the screenplay for Gladiator II. "Luckily, it was so completely unacceptable they didn't even ask me to do rewrites," says Cave, with a kind of amused pride. "It wasn't makeable." Why not? "I wanted to write an anti-war film and use Gladiator as a raging war machine. He died in the first one so he comes back as the eternal warrior. It ended up in Vietnam and the Pentagon." He shrugs his spindly shoulders. "It was just this really wacked-out script." But man, look at that mustache. I'm so in love with him that I think the dorky facial hair makes him even hotter.
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(John Banville showed up at the Guardian book club to discuss his (amazing) novel The Untouchable, and they have a podcast of the evening.)
John Banville showed up at the Guardian book club to discuss his (amazing) novel The Untouchable, and they have a podcast of the evening.
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(A man has accused a book shop of 'outraging public decency' after they promoted a 'pop-up' edition of the (Kama) Sutra.)
A man has accused a book shop of 'outraging public decency' after they promoted a 'pop-up' edition of the (Kama) Sutra.
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(Shakespeare died of lymphatic cancer, says German professor Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel.)
Shakespeare died of lymphatic cancer, says German professor Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel.
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(The Jewish Week profiles Kate Braverman (interviewed this month at Bookslut), author of Lithium for Medea and the new Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles.)
The Jewish Week profiles Kate Braverman (interviewed this month at Bookslut), author of Lithium for Medea and the new Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles.
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(Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret has been updated say goodbye to the sanitary belt and hello to "disposable adhesive pads." (Via Bookshelves of Doom.))
Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret has been updated say goodbye to the sanitary belt and hello to "disposable adhesive pads." (Via Bookshelves of Doom.)
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(Great news: Melville House Publishing, one of America's great indie presses, will publish Tao Lin's short story collection, BED. Tao is the creator of the Reader of Depressing Books blog, and an ...)
Great news: Melville House Publishing, one of America's great indie presses, will publish Tao Lin's short story collection, BED. Tao is the creator of the Reader of Depressing Books blog, and an unbelievably talented writer. His book of poetry, you are a little bit happer than i am, will be published by Action Books in the fall.
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