Cristine Brache curated a great list of web-poetry videos for last month’s O, Miami Poetry Festival, and she was awesome enough to post the entire playlist online for all to see.
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Though Kim Gordon is mostly known for her time in Sonic Youth, she’s also an artist and writer, one who’s racked up art projects and publications over the course of the past forty years. At Full-Stop, Hestia Peppe reviews Is It My Body?, a new collection of Gordon’s essays and other written work. It might also be a good time to read our own Anne K. Yoder on punk and revolutionary nonfiction.
“Listening feels like a weighted choice”
If you read only one take on Rihanna and Chris Brown's latest musical (and personal) partnership, make it this one by Ann Powers.
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New Release Tuesday
One of the most anticipated novels of the year is out today: David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Also newly available, Booker shortlister The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds.
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He’s the Ragtime King / There is None Higher…
Ta-Nehisi Coates calls Doctorow sire (in his post E.L. Doctorow - Badass M.C.) Back in grad school, we just called him "The Funk Doc."
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Or, The Whale
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Amazon’s Top 100 of the Year
Amazon is tweeting its top 100 books of the year today on its Twitter account. (Thanks, Darryl)
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On the tiny island of La Gomera, the residents had a problem communicating across the ravines. What did they do to resolve this, you ask? Simple: they invented a whistle language. (h/t The Rumpus)