Jeremy Lewis introduces his new biography of Graham Greene and his remarkable family, Shades of Greene, for the Telegraph.
Greene Family Biography
Guns N’ Roses N’ Meth
In this piece on "Southern Enlightenment", Kevin Charles Redmon checks out John Jeremiah Sullivan's Pulphead and Frank Bill's Crimes in Southern Indiana for The Rumpus. In the process, he touches on Axl Rose and methamphetamines.
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Sergio De La Pava on Boxing
Did Garth Risk Hallberg’s profile of Sergio De La Pava, enigmatic author of A Naked Singularity, whet your appetite for a taste of his writing? Well, check out this excerpt from the book over at The Classical.
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Will Hoge
There's a great free download at iTunes right now: Country rocker and (some say) Tom Petty-sound-alike Will Hoge's new single "Even If It Breaks Your Heart." If you like what you hear, Hoge is also on tour right now.
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Some Good Stuff
Two great scoops were passed my way by the intrepid Brian, fresh from his European sojourn. The first is this so-wierd-it-has-to-be-true story about Newt Gingrich being an extremely prolific and friendly Amazon.com customer reviewer. Click here for the must-read gory details.While in Spain, Brian read Robert Hughes' new book Barcelona: The Great Enchantress from the National Geographic Directions series and noticed on the back cover that Jon Lee Anderson, the New Yorker's Baghdad correspondent extraordinaire, has a book for the series coming out. It will be about Andalucia. This will be a busy year for Anderson. In the fall, his fantastic Baghdad pieces will be collected in The Fall Of Baghdad and he will also release Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World, which ought to be quite good.
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Insult to Insult
“Who was Bret Easton Ellis describing when he tweeted: 'The best example of a contemporary male writer lusting for a kind of awful greatness that he simply wasn't able to achieve'?” The Guardian has a delicious quiz of literary putdowns. And speaking of fighting, let's talk about books about violence.
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