Patrick Hughes’ Diary of Indignities gets its own book at last.
In the Mood: Terry Teachout riffs on music and the pleasures of the flesh.
Alison Bechdel, Dorothy Allison, Michelle Tea, and others contribute art, tarot readings and more for an ebay auction benefitting marginalized voices. (Via.)
Was Louisa May Alcott infatuated with Hawthorne (“a rat with women”), Emerson — and Thoreau?
From a former Houghton Mifflin employee: “Even though the company dropped me like a creepy date when [expurgated], I feel a certain loss every time I see Hufty Mufty, Old Mother Mifflin, get passed around like some pimp’s tired goods.”
Phil Campbell and Stephen Prothero talk Jesus
Phil Campbell, author of Zioncheck for President, contributes occasional Q&As to this site. Below he talks with historian Stephen Prothero, author of American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon, about Americans’ conveniently mutating interpretations of the Christian savior.
(I post this interview in the spirit of the barroom conversation, although I [...]
Pangs for other places (abetted by Karen Olsson)
Man. I have gone through my periods of disenchantment with New York City, no doubt about that, but the visceral revulsion I’ve started to feel on waking and moving through my days is something new. Thus the quiet. Also, the redesign (a million thanks, Max), which hasn’t proved as motivational as I’d [...]
In the late poetry of Mark Strand, “The self is not unknowable and jettisoned, but unknowable and utterly present, which is worse.”
Am I biased? Or is The High Hat one of few consistently engaging webzines? The current issue, published 11/14, is a pre-death homage to Robert Altman.
Gore Vidal heralds the demise of hands-on editors, blaming them for the reign of “near- illiterates, like F. Scott Fitzgerald.” (Vidal has hated on Fitzgerald for years.)
“Kingsley and Martin Amis once had a good row about the word ‘dilapidated.’”
The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics has named JM Coetzee its first Honorary Fellow.
Venezuela’s new electronic voting system involves paper receipts. Officials will count them and compare the totals against electronic results.
Art Spiegelman signs books at Brooklyn’s Rocketship this Friday — that’s 12/1 — night at 8.
At The Elegant Variation, Jonathan Lethem talks Daniel Fuchs, Shirley Jackson, and “the utter and irreversible canonization” of Philip K. Dick.
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