books, eggers, fiction, greg ames, johnny marr, links, lit randomness, literary, review
In books, lit randomness on May 18, 2009 at 1:57 pm
We try to do Lit Randomness every Mon and Wed.
Dave Eggers, of McSweeney’s notoriety, and his brother Toph (yeah, that brother from that book) do their first interview together to promote their new book on Cold Fusion: At Paste. BTW, help save Paste.
Intro by Johnny Marr to new punk fiction anthology: At 3am.
Interview w/ Greg Ames, author of Buffalo Lockjaw: At Maud Newton.
All-time 10 ten best and worst mothers in comics: From Newsrama (h/t Fangirls Attack)
Poets ranked by beard weight: At Journey Round My Skull (h/t Bookslut blog)
The Millions’ Staff must-have subscrip list: At The Millions.
books, interviews, links, lit randomness
In books, interview, lit randomness on May 4, 2009 at 4:25 pm
As I try to do every Mon and Wed, here’s Lit Randomness. Send links over to deckfight [at] gmail.com.
Interv. w/ Andrei Codrescu: At 3 A.M.
I was introduced and then inundated with Codrescu while living in NOLA…but he still always offers a quality perspective. His new book is The Posthuman Dada Guide.
The best: “You should live in at least seven countries for a minimum of one year in each before you are seventeen, and must speak and write at least five languages in order to be a half-decent poet.”–Codrescu
Seth Godin on what authors should do to promote themselves: From Godin’s blog (h/t booksquare).
The best: “Far better to obsess about a little subset of the market–that subset that you have permission to talk with, that subset where you have credibility, and most important, that subset where people just can’t live without your book.”–Seth Godin
Why book critics won’t stop: At the WSJ. (h/t book bench)
Finally downloaded Ben Tanzer’s new book from CCLAP. It’s been out a couple of months, but will review it soon.
books, links, lit randomness
In books, the wire on April 27, 2009 at 3:29 pm
The Wire Symposium: I don’t know how long this has been up, but there are some tremendous essays about The Wire over at Please Don’t, inspired by each writer’s favorite scene from the show.
Perseus Book Group is putting together a book in 48 hours as a collaborative process at the 2009 Book Expo, called Book: The Sequel. That’s kind of a good idea with a stupid name (h/t Booksquare).
Here’s the NYTimes review of Colson Whitehead’s new one Sag Harbor. The parts the reviewer hated about the book (i.e. excellent descriptions of ice cream) were the ones that made me want to read it.
