Tags: literature
Tags: literature
Book Notes - Zach Plague ("boring boring boring boring boring boring")
Posted Wednesday November 26, 2008, 8:07 am, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
All right, groan already, but Zach Plague's Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring is one of the better modern satires I've read in a while, if only because it doesn't pound the reader over and over with a hammer, pestering her to accept some pithy moral.
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Book Notes - Maria Semple ("This One Is Mine")
Posted Wednesday November 26, 2008, 8:07 am, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
You hear one and gasp at how perfectly it fits into your novel, even old songs you've heard a million times but now make you question the space-time continuum because they actually seem to be inspired by characters in your book. Apparently the lyrics are, "Open your eyes/ To these I must lie."
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Today's Updates to the Year-End "Best of 2008" Books & Music Lists
Posted Wednesday November 26, 2008, 8:07 am, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
Today's additions to the "best of 2008" books and music lists (Keep up with daily additions at the update archive page ): "Best of 2008" Music Lists additions: daily updates to the 2008 year-end "best of 2008" books & music lists
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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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