Archive for June, 2008

We have the technology

Junot Díaz admits Grand Theft Auto IV is no Moby-Dick, Beloved, or even Battlestar Galactica, but argues it’s a matter of time.

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Day job fiction

Mark Sarvas admires Ed Park’s Personal Days. He asks not why we’ve seen two recent novels about cubicle life but why we haven’t seen more.

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John Waters: Groundbreaking director, delightful misanthrope

Years and years ago, I read an interview in which the director John Waters divulged his strategy for avoiding conversations with fellow passengers on airplanes. He hides whatever book he’s reading behind the cover for Flying Lesbian Nuns.*   Last night New York’s Blythe Sheldon saw Waters performing This Filthy World at the Society for Ethical Culture. Among other things, . . .

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Jefferson’s library

The Library of Congress is attempting to reassemble Thomas Jefferson’s library as it was sold to Congress. (Via.)

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