Over at Hyperallergic, art, activism, and literature collide in When We Fight, We Win!: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World by Greg Jobin-Leeds and AgitArte. Pair with our own Bill Morris’s review of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975.
Activist Art
You down with OPP 100?
The 100th episode of Brad Listi's Other People Podcast is here, and it's with George Saunders, and they talk about Ayn Rand, grad school, and a lot of other things too.
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And in This Corner, Weighing in at 900 Pages…
The eagle-eyed Scott Esposito alerts us to a forthcoming 900-page collection of short stories by Stephen Dixon. One hopes Fantagraphics has beefed up its copy-editing department since its last fictional behemoth, Alexander Theroux's Laura Warholic.
Murakami to Release Third Volume of 1Q84
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Highly Recommended
Some kind soul has put the title story from Alvin Levin's under-appreciated collection Love Is Like Park Avenue online for all to enjoy. That means you.
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Burroughs’s curse, Capote’s burden
"Enjoy your dirty money. You will never have anything else." And other things William Burroughs's wrote to Truman Capote. There's a bit more backstory over at RealityStudio, though the letter stands on its fearsome and indignant own.
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