Dear Internet, can you please get to work on a single-serving Tumblr dedicated to weird literary videos? And, when created, can it just eternally re-post this video of a shirtless Glenn Danzig posing by his bookcase (and apparently a roaring fire)? (h/t Adam Boretz)
“Welcome to my book collection”
Previews, Ctd.
If our own lengthy book preview wasn’t quite enough for your appetite, you might like the preview at Writers No One Reads. (It probably doesn’t hurt that their list includes Beckett and Borges.)
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Death and Dishonor
At Granta’s website, the novelist David McConnell explains his fascination with the “honor killing,” a hate crime targeted at gay men that inspired his latest book.
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Going In
In 2012, the Portuguese writer José Luís Peixoto, on the occasion of Kim Il-Sung’s 100th birthday, went to North Korea for a fifteen-day trip. The experience led him to write a travel memoir, Inside the Secret, which you can read in serialized form online at Ninth Letter magazine. You could also read Pulitzer laureate Adam Johnson’s new Granta essay about the country.
Harper Lee Sues Museum
The Guardian reports that Harper Lee is suing the local museum in her Alabama hometown. The octogenarian author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who currently resides in an assisted-living facility, claims that the museum is profiting off her fame without providing her due compensation.
Mr. Moran – Is it your suggestion that the Internet find a way to put the Glenn Danzig shirtless video on a continuing loop? Your emotional criticism of the “White Suit’s”repeated reference to scantily clad females in Back to Blood evidently is, as I suggested, personal. You’d rather the repeated references be of scantily clad men. And how much was Danzig paid? Whatever the amount, it was far too much. And if he’s going to discuss his bookshelf, he should put a shirt on and discuss the woodwork of the shelf, not the books on it. Shame on you Mr. Moran. Your criticism of Wolfe reeks of PC politics and in part motivated by personal sex preferences.