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
From Well-Read to Well-Written
Well-Read Black Girl, a Brooklyn-based book club and online community celebrating "the uniqueness of Black literature & sisterhood," has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its inaugural writers' conference and festival. Past WRBG book club guests include Year in Reading alums Jacqueline Woodson and Angela Flournoy, whom we also interviewed about her debut novel The Turner House.
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Brooklyn is Coming to Eat Your Children
The reach of literary Brooklyn grows ever larger, as local hub BookCourt mounts a $300,000 campaign to convert the "Bibliobarn," 160 miles north in the Catskills, into a "bookshop, event space, and writers' retreat." Upstaters, lock up your house-cured salume and artisinally sharpened pencils!
Truth with a Dragon
Jeff Vandermeer writes for the Los Angeles Times about autobiographical influence in fantasy and sci-fi and argues that "there's little or no difference in process or results compared to "normal" fiction, except that sometimes you end up with a dragon in your story and sometimes you don't." Pair with Alex Trivilino's account of "binge-reading" Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy.
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Open Letters Reborn
Open Letters Monthly has relaunched with a smart-looking new site and three new blogs: Like Fire, stevereads, and the Walt Whitman-focused Whitman's Blog.
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“The Black Count”
True Detective director Cary Fukunaga will soon turn his attention to a biopic about Alexandre Dumas’s father.
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Self-Publishing like a Woolf
"History is littered with poets... who set up their own presses to publish their work, because it was so different from the normal forms of the time. Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard are one example- they started their own press called the Hogarth Press (it is still going today) to publish collections of their work." Self-publishing is something we've written about many times before, but Sarah Gonnet raises a good point - self-publishing isn't truly a new phenomenon, and it does allow for a great deal of creative freedom.
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The Church of Scientology vs. The New Yorker
Last February, everyone was talking about Lawrence Wright's epic New Yorker profile of Paul Haggis and The Church of Scientology. But now, as The New York Times reports, the Church has released Freedom, a 51-page retaliatory glossy with DVD accompaniment.
Hitchens on Mamet
It almost sounds too terrifying to be true. Your book is reviewed by Christopher Hitchens in the New York Times Book Review and he opens with: "This is an extraordinarily irritating book" (and it gets worse from there, and deservedly so). It happened to David Mamet and his new book The Secret Knowledge.
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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.”