Do you like listening to music, but often struggle with an appropriate drink order? Enter Drinkify, a website which suggests cocktails based on the tunes you’re playing. (I tested it out with The Wu-Tang Clan. It told me to drink “1 bottle of gin.” Do with this information what you must.)
For Tom Waits, Drink Everything
The Intellectuals
A look at the writer Nelson Algren, a.k.a. Lewis Brogan in Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins.
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Appearing Elsewhere
A slightly different version of my story "Salt Lick" (originally published in 2006, in the Los Angeles Times Magazine) is now at Flatmancrooked.
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Tuesday New Release Day: McCann, Shriver, King, Lin, DiSclafani
New this week: TransAtlantic by Colum McCann, Big Brother by Lionel Shriver, Taipei by Tao Lin, Joyland by Stephen King, and The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani.
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The Thrill of Writing Prose
Bookforum interviewed Garth Greenwell about the queer tradition of autofiction, the impulse to write fiction, and the thrill of surprising oneself. Also check out this Millions review of Greenwell’s debut novel What Belongs to You.
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The Spy Who Wrote a Memoir
The Guardian has a beautiful multimedia feature in celebration of John le Carré's new memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, including an exclusive excerpt, original notes from the author's archives, and readings of his novels by Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Damien Lewis et al. Read also: our own Emily St. John Mandel on using le Carré for literary cover.
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How bummed was I when my query “ice cream truck music” came back with answer!
No answer, that is, no answer!
Most Houston/Southern Hip-hop comes back with a drink recipe that includes cough syrup — that fact alone made this little gadget for me.
Definitely agree, Becca! Though I’m sorry to hear it didn’t work out for Madelaine. I was amused yesterday when it suggested I pair Brian Eno with an “8 oz. water.”