One John Williams is sitting atop the bestsellers list in The Netherlands following the multi-week (and quite unexpected) success of Stoner. Meanwhile a different John Williams is set to compose music in a galaxy far, far away.
John Williams and John Williams
Miranda July, Craigslist Reseller
Miranda July's new project, It Chooses You, is a store based on her new book (published by McSweeney’s) of the same name. The store, at Partner’s and Spade in SoHo, is an exercise in buying belongings from New York-area Craigslist sellers and reselling the contents for the exact same price.
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“How an ordinary Asian fell in love with The Smiths”
You may not expect much from a write-up about The Smiths' new collected box set, Complete, but that's about to change. In a phenomenal piece on the relationship between racial (in particular Asian) otherness and the UK band's music, Sukhdev Sandhu explains how Morrissey's "lyrics and persona mapped out a structure of feeling that spoke to my own floundering selfhood."
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Not His Best Work
Quick Links
What happens when you co-write a book with someone who's illiterate? YPTR has the details.LitLinks, a well stocked collection of links about a few hundred notable authors.iPoems arrives promising a plethora of downloadable poetry so you can jam to some verse on your iPod.
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And another is one of the world’s greatest guitarists ever.