Did you know that a new Jonathan Safran Foer book is coming out this week? We didn’t until we saw a mention of it at Kottke. More surprising is the form of the book itself. Foer has created a new work called Tree of Codes by cutting out sections of one of his favorite books, The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Shulz. The die-cut, Kindle-proof volume is the first major title by London-based Visual Editions. Vanity Fair has more.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Cut Up
Twitter Fiction Festival
On Friday Twitter announced their new Twitter Fiction Festival, a “virtual storytelling celebration.” The festival will feature “creative experiments in storytelling from authors around the world,” and you can submit story proposals over here.
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Kraus on Amazon
Exciting news: Jill Soloway (Transparent) is adapting Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick for Amazon. You could also check out Kraus’s Year in Reading.
J.M. Coetzee on Philip Roth
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New Music
The Beatles' remastered catalogue is probably the hottest rock release of the moment, but there are other notable new releases this month: The Stone Roses' 20th anniversary re-release double CD and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (recently written up at The Millions)'s second full length EP, Higher Than the Stars.
Just in time for the holiday shopping season. As if the repackaged combo of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Everything is Illuminated isn’t enough.
No, my novel is called “Cut Up”. Burrough’s technique is called the cut-up technique.