Tags: literature
Tags: literature
Book Notes - Roy Kesey ("All Over")
Posted Thursday July 17, 2008, 8:13 am, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
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Book Notes - Mark LeVine ("Heavy Metal Islam")
Posted Tuesday July 15, 2008, 4:39 am, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
Wherever I've gone, from Morocco to Pakistan, I've met metalheads willing to risk ridicule, harassment, violence and even jail-"Satanic metal affairs" have seen scores of musicians and fans arrested and tried in Egypt, Iran, Morocco, Lebanon and other countries in the last decade.
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Note Books - The Portland Cello Project
Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 11:20 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
So, I decided to take matters into my own hands and I invited everyone out to dinner? separately? since getting 15 of us together at the same time for something other than a show or rehearsal would have ended up a debaucherous and drunken evening of non-literary chaos.
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Book Notes - Sarah Manguso ("The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir")
Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 11:20 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
Manguso's honesty makes The Two Kinds of Decay worth reading, but it is her literary style that transforms a tragic story into an ultimately uplifting one. I sang the second soprano solo in Gregorio Allegri?s?Miserere,? a setting of Psalms 50 and 51.
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18 Down, 34 To Go "Santi: Lives of the Saints" (52 Books, 52 Weeks)
Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 1:55 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
52 Books, 52 Weeks (2008 Edition) 52 Books, 52 Weeks (2007 Edition) 52 Books, 52 Weeks (2006 Edition) 52 Books, 52 Weeks (2005 Edition) 52 Books, 52 Weeks (2004 Edition) Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book) Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
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Book Notes - Kevin Sampsell ("Creamy Bullets")
Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 1:54 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
When Jami Attenberg submitted her Book Notes essay for The Kept Man, she recommended Kevin Sampsell for this series. Just like some folks haven?t come around to GBV, or other bands that write great quickies (like Jason Anderson/Wolf Colonel, Pavement, early Spoon ).
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Book Notes - Ed Park ("Personal Days")
Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 1:54 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
But chances are, Park (who writes a monthly online science fiction column for the L.A. Times Book Review) drew from personal experience of really lousy jobs to create this bitter, pathetic world that makes you snort your Starbucks when laughing at unexpected moments."
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Book Notes - Rabih Alameddine ("The Hakawati")
Posted Tuesday June 24, 2008, 1:47 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
If any work of fiction might be powerful enough to transcend the mountain of polemic, historical inquiry, policy analysis and reportage that stands between the Western reader and the Arab soul, it?s this wonder of a book?a book not about a jihadi but a hakawati (Arabic for storyteller).
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Largehearted Boy Summer Reading Suggestions
Posted Monday June 23, 2008, 1:48 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
What are the exceptional books you have read this year? Litblogger Mark Sarvas ( The Elegant Variation ) has produced a debut novel that captures the subtleties of relationships and pulls at your heartsrings while never forgetting how to make you laugh.
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Book Notes - Andrew Foster Altschul ("Lady Lazarus")
Posted Monday June 9, 2008, 2:53 am, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
In his own words, here is Andrew Foster Altschul's Book Notes essay for his debut novel, Lady Lazarus : With this song, Liz Phair turned male sexual aggression on its head and made all the world?s frat boys think twice about the?blow-job queens? they love to humiliate.
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