Web Hype
Weekend Reading
Gawker went to the National Book Awards and got a whole bunch of big lit-names to sign a copy of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue, which they are now auctioning off for charity. It seems to be part of a campaign to get the book short-listed for the 2010 fiction award. That’s this year’s fiction winner, Colum McCann, in the picture.
I always forget The Atlantic exists. But then they’ll bring out Christopher Hitchens to talk about Arthur Koestler, and it’s like, oh yeah, those guys. Though to be fair, if it wasn’t for Arts & Letters Daily, I’d have never known.
Julia Cohen’s got a video of Seth Landman (ed. Invisible Ear) doing something I don’t understand.
She also mentions that Mathias Svalina’s debut full length, Destruction Myth, is now officially out. Expect to hear rather a bit more about that book in this space in the near future.
Joshua Cohen’s memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Fall 2009 online issue of Rain Taxi, including a review of Evenson’s Fugue State and a look at Zizek & Milbank’s The Monstrosity of Christ.
Also, Glenn Beck is in a fight with the Anti-Defamation League because they called him “fearmonger in chief” in their new special report, “Rage Grows In America: Anti-Government Conspiracies.” Basically, the report is exactly what you think it is, only longer. If you go to Crooks & Liars, you can hear Beck on his radio show, flipping out and daring the ADL to name anyone who has been a better friend of Israel than he has. Not sure what that has to do with domestic American politics, but–oh wait, yes I am. Dear ADL, maybe if you supported something like an even remotely sane Israel policy, instead of taking all your talking points from the pro-violence right (the Kissinger/Lieberman/Dershowitz school) you wouldn’t find yourself in bed with fucktards like Beck in the first place. Well good for them for putting the report out, at any rate, when its come down to siding with Abraham Foxman or Glenn Beck, it’s dark days all over the land.
Tags: Mathias Svalina, sarah palin
ot, but how did the reading with WM go?
ot, but how did the reading with WM go?
‘fucktards’
thanks justin
‘fucktards’
thanks justin
It was good, I think. Wu Ming 5 was there representing for the rest of the team– he was funny. The Q&A was especially interesting. It’s refreshing to hear from someone whose culture hasn’t forced him to question the inherent dignity of his artistic enterprise–or of having one at all. Also, he said he wrote a “solo novel” about telepathic lemurs that live in Prospect Park. It hasn’t been translated. Yet.
It was good, I think. Wu Ming 5 was there representing for the rest of the team– he was funny. The Q&A was especially interesting. It’s refreshing to hear from someone whose culture hasn’t forced him to question the inherent dignity of his artistic enterprise–or of having one at all. Also, he said he wrote a “solo novel” about telepathic lemurs that live in Prospect Park. It hasn’t been translated. Yet.
I saw Beck on Seventh Ave the other day. He was smiling and walking with some people, I felt it my responsibility to call him a douche bag. I should have gone to your reading, interested to hear what yr up to.
I saw Beck on Seventh Ave the other day. He was smiling and walking with some people, I felt it my responsibility to call him a douche bag. I should have gone to your reading, interested to hear what yr up to.
Seth Landman is a great man and so are his pants.
Seth Landman is a great man and so are his pants.
beck has a christmas themed children’s book out. on the inside cover it reads, “original story by glenn beck.” it is also based on a “deeply personal true story.”
it is called, The Christmas Sweater
isn’t that inspiring!?
beck has a christmas themed children’s book out. on the inside cover it reads, “original story by glenn beck.” it is also based on a “deeply personal true story.”
it is called, The Christmas Sweater
isn’t that inspiring!?
Seth Landman, Glenn Beck mentioned in the same post?
Like milk and meat.
More like Seth Parker and Glenn Beck.
Seth Landman, Glenn Beck mentioned in the same post?
Like milk and meat.
More like Seth Parker and Glenn Beck.
ha! man those two really want to suck each other off in that pic.
i hope they find love.
ha! man those two really want to suck each other off in that pic.
i hope they find love.