RSVP: We've already had several RSVPs for our NYC indie bookstore walking tour. Get all the details via
our announcement post.People are still adding to
our collaborative literary Atlas. Recent additions include several non-bookstore literary spots in the Midwest, including the
Kate Chopin House and the final resting place of
William S. Burroughs. The Atlas itself has been viewed over 100,000 times.Panelists at the SXSW "New Think for Old Media" panel face
death by a thousand Tweets.Also via Freebird:
Iggy Pop explores Michel Houellebecq's raw power.
Mark Grief and
Year in Reading contributor
Wells Tower give far-ranging interviews in a new online journal,
Wag's ReviewHanif Kureishi discusses life after the
Rushdie fatwa.
A bibliography of coffee.The editor of
John Updike's book reviews remembers the writer: "
he was attentive to everything."
Cathleen Schine admires Zoe Heller's The Believers.
The Village Voice praises
Mary Gaitskill's "
ludicrous mastery."In
two long posts,
Blographia Literaria offers a thoughtful alternative to
our take on
The Kindly OnesBen Okri pioneers the Twitter poem.Two books named
Brooklyn enter,
one book named Brooklyn leaves. (
via)
Tucker Carlson sounds a dissenting note on
Jon Stewart in the wake of the
Jim Cramer takedown.
Levi Asher and
Scott Esposito discuss litblog economics.At
The Second Pass,
Jon Fasman calls readers' attention to Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker, echoing
John Wray's Year in Reading contention that "Sometimes, though, a work of originality and genius slips inexplicably through the cracks."Wray's
Lowboy, meanwhile, got
the James Wood treatment at the
New Yorker this week.
