January 2012
36 posts
“Often seen as the most personal and mysterious of literary forms – and therefore...”
– “The mystery of poetry editing: from TS Eliot to John Burnside” (Telegraph)
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A Couple Concert Reviews from the Weekend
ISSUE Project Room says farewell to Gowanus and moves to downtown Brooklyn (Friday)
Jeff Mangum at BAM (Saturday)
“In February 2001, Mr. Dotcom told Die Welt that he had spent three months in a...”
– Mr. Dotcom.
A Different Stripe: Fall 2012 Books preview: Part... →
A new Lucky Jim!
nyrbclassics:
As we prepare to officially launch our Fall 2012 list we wanted to share our upcoming books. This is the first part of the season, and we’ll post the remainder later:
Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman: Paul Goodman was a sociologist, philosopher, poet, writer, educator, anarchist, and gay…
“If any of it breaks your heart, it was probably... →
A Guide to Friendship, Schmoozing, and Social... →
tetw:
by Glenn O’Brien
Modern advice on how to win friends and influence people - while always making sure you’re moving up.
Laissez-Faire Aesthetics →
longformorg:
A critical look at the contemporary art marketplace.
The trouble is that a business model has come to drive the entire art world, and like the corporate executive who regards the launch of each new product as a challenge to the success of the last one, because you must keep growing or you will die, the arts community finds itself in a state of permanent anxiety. There always has to...
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In Name Alone: On the Surprisingly Stellar... →
Imperial Teen, Sonic Youth, Billy Childish and more.
“A Harvard man got up and started to leave. “You know what this stuff...”
– John Leonard watches Chuck Berry and Fats Domino (The Harvard Crimson, 1957)
“‘“I really didn’t know what I was doing when I started them,” she says. Nor was...”
– —artist Cindy Sherman, talking to Cathy Horyn, about her early influences-making art out of what was in her head. You can start anywhere, with whatever you’ve got.
—jessica H. (via rookiemag)
“I tried to care about Carver but couldn’t, just as I tried to like Jay...”
– Madison Smartt Bell
“As a kid, I wrote heaps of poems and plays and stories freely and happily, with...”
– Kate Christensen
“This book, this slender plaything of an excursion, is, perhaps, the most...”
– From Tilda Swinton’s introduction to a new edition of Orlando, by Virginia Woolf.
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The Very Best Songs of Frankie Rose (On the... →
A little ditty I wrote for The L.
"We really flipped this model," said... →
maura:
Not for nothing, but this model isn’t that new. (I suspect the editors will rewrite as much as, say, your generic aggregation-site employee would.)
Keira Knightley on Tolstoy, parties, and phone... →
“I am crap at parties. I tend to sit in the corner. I’ll sit in the corner and find one person to talk to or I’ll go on the dance floor and get quite drunk.”
Kimmel: Santorum was that "boring, stuck up white... →
McNally Jackson Bookmongers: McNally J's... →
taylorlorenz:
mcnallyjackson:
Here are McNally J’s bestselling books of 2011. It’s a list! 31 books long. Arbitrarily. I had to go get my laundry.
Just Kids, Patti Smith (Now also the bestselling book in McNJ’s history.)
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
On Booze, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bossypants, Tina Fey
The…
Great list!
Long Day's Journey →
tetw:
by Elizabeth Gilbert
The way another woman might, on a first date, suddenly picture herself having a baby with the guy across the table, what I pictured was this: me and him, eating a duck’s liver together in a ditch.
One of my favorites!
The Truant Muse: The Great Thoughtful (Remaining)... →
moorehn:
The death of George Whitman, the proprietor of bookshop/intellectual kibbutz Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, should give everyone who reads pause to think about what makes a great bookstore - and, in a time when they keep closing down, where we can even find one.
Somewhere, in someone’s New…
Great list. I’d also add Rizzoli, in Midtown.
“Getting older ain’t for sissies, I’ll tell you. It’s very funny. I have a dear...”
– Iris Apfel
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“The Maestro was in a state of visible disorder. His face was livid, flushed...”
– Hari Kunzru, “The Maestro’s Loss”
“O’Keeffe joked that she came from the “tale end of the earth”; the charmingly...”
– “The Far-Apart Artists” (Christopher Benfey, New York Review of Books)
“Acedia’s sufferers were engaged in solitary, sedentary, cerebral effort toward a...”
– “Their Noonday Demons, and Ours” (John Plotz, The New York Times)
“On an unseasonably warm day in the Windy City, I asked a fellow customer what he...”
– The Book Club
“I can’t write creatively at at all if I think about readers en masse. I do tend...”
– Maud Newton
“Once digitized, a page of words loses its fixity. It can change every time...”
– “Books That Are Never Done Being Written” (Nicholas Carr, The Wall Street Journal)
See also: “Humans Have the Need to Read”
“After dinner, we walked to midnight Mass at Santa Maria in Aracoeli to see the...”
– Kate Christensen
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Favorite Music Writing 2011
“When You’re Strange” (Daniel Nester, Poetry Foundation)
“Waiting for Radiohead” (Hua Hsu, Grantland)
“I Listen to the Wind that Obliterates My Traces: an unorthodox collage” (Andy Battaglia, The National)
“The Ultimate Negative Christgau Review” (Brian Joseph Davis, WFMU’s Beware of the Blog)
“How the Internet Transformed...
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“Men have no concept of how to design things for... →
December 2011
68 posts
“In each column I’ll write about a single novel and the year it was published....”
– American Dreams: The 20th Century in Novels (Nathaniel Rich, The Daily Beast)
“The song’s gift lies less in its misery than in the insidious glee of its tune....”
– “I think I’ll stay in bed” is my response to many things in life. Also, I really love this song.
My Year in Reading
John Cleland, Fanny Hill , Tove Jansson, Fair Play, Elizabeth Hardwick, The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick, Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot, James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime, Ann Beattie, Mrs. Nixon, Susan Orlean, Rin Tin Tin, Philip Roth, Indignation, Colson Whitehead, Zone One, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead, Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding, Erin Morgenstern, The Night...
“On Christmas Eve, Scott’s team had treated themselves to a special meal of...”
– “Scott’s Last Expedition marks centenary of explorer reaching pole”
“These publication readings are, in my own experience, occasions for a...”
– Thomas Beller
“The desk had been the subject of speculation among film buffs for decades, and...”
– “The Lady & the Desk” (Ned Welsh, Los Angeles)
“Friends have asked what I will be doing; I have told them, frankly: :...”
– “Occupy New Year’s Eve with a Book” (Page Views)
I’ve always been more into New Year’s Day. Last year I finally made it to the Poetry Project’s annual marathon reading, which is so welcoming and cathartic. My own ritual is to start a new notebook (a Moleskine,...
“When practicing his pool game, Crackhead Rob would line up all the balls down...”
– “Lessons from a Hustler” (Peter Mountford, Granta)
sarahwrotethat asked: Favorite book and/or short story read this year?
Questions might be fun. →
Guggenheim: The Last Word →
Sat, Jan 21, 6 pm–1 am
Maurizio Cattelan is retiring from art making with his current retrospective. To mark the end of the exhibition (and the beginning of retirement), 20 or so prominent artists, philosophers, writers, comedians, filmmakers, actors, musicians, and more will come together to contemplate the end. More than just some winter morbidity, this event tackles that most difficult...
“My friends often ask how it is humanly possible to consume so much rich food in...”
– “When the Family’s Foodies Visit New York” (Charles Isherwood, New York Times)
Why does this week even exist?
rubenfeld:
alexbaca:
I’m at work and I’m not happy about it.
I’m at work, and I’m telling everyone.
I’m at work and I’m leaving early.