Thursday fragments
August 24, 2006 | Comments Off
- Spy: the Daily Transom previews the book of the magazine.
- Alison Bechdel’s upcoming art show at Burlington’s Pine Street Art Works.
- More humiliating than your literary idol selling the book you inscribed? Your mother doing it. Or finding a contest judge’s unopened copy for sale.
- Lorrie Moore, Edward P. Jones, and Carl Hiassen support the First Amendment by selling character-naming rights.
- Behind the book cover art at Penguin.
- Charles Baxter says Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman is the funniest and scariest book ever written.
- James Frey’s website: “like walking into a room and seeing dozens of shrunken heads floating inside glass jars while the host talks about the weather.”
- When an office job can be good for a writer, according to William Vollmann. (Via a fellow friend of Bill V.)
- Hard to pronounce authors’ names, broken down for you.
- There’s a Haruki Murakami Roundtable in the Fall 2006 Quarterly Conversation.
- Some women don’t swoon over Leonard Cohen. (“Ugh, I know. This was my sex music for two years with [boyfriend redacted].”)
- Novelist Claire Messud discusses her latest novel, and the kind of critiques she expects from her husband, TNR critic James Wood.