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Poetry Bomb
1. S. A. Griffin, a Los Angeles poet, actor, beatnik and longtime friend of LitKicks, is going to be filling the shell of a bomb with pages of poetry and touring the USA with it in 2010. 2. Here’s another bombshell: the conglomerate that publi...
Enoch Soames on Twitter, or The Devil Went Down To The British Library
There’s a short story by Max Beerbohm that sometimes comes up in philosophy classes. “Enoch Soames, a Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties” (1919) tells the story of Max Beerbohm, the author-as-character-within-the-novel, and his encou...
Green Books Campaign: Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts
Eco-Libris, a company dedicated to positive environmental practices in the book publishing business, is currently sponsoring a Green Books Campaign, a blogger event designed to call attention to green publishing in which 100 blogs will simultaneousl...
Human Nature
Some of my literary/blogger friends have taken to tweeting their literary links. Not me — I’m holding out for the blog format, just like McSweeney’s is holding out for newspapers. Here’s another roundup involving great writ...
Bright Star
1. A movie about John Keats? I haven’t seen it yet but I like the idea. It’s called Bright Star, it’s directed by Jane Campion, and you can see a preview here. I was starting to think we’d never hear about another classic ...
Mikael’s Picks
(LitKicks friend Mikael Covey tells us about three things he likes, two books and one play.) The Suburban Swindle by Jackie Corley These are power words that Jackie Corley writes. Come screaming atcha from inside your head, a white hot poker stuck i...
The Lunch at 50
1. If you’re in Chicago next week, you may want to join a 50th birthday party for Naked Lunch, the novel by William S. Burroughs that invented trippy postmodern noir way before Thomas Pynchon had the same idea. The Chicago birthday party (fea...
One Time For Your Mind
1. Buy the Lighthouse. The scenic spot that inspired Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse is for sale. 2. I’m not sure if “crying for help” counts as a business model, but I know Archipelago Books is worth helping. I’ve...
Comix For Bloomsday
1. For your Bloomsday enjoyment: comic strip artist Robert Berry is visualizing James Joyce’s Ulysses. This project appears to be off to a great start. 2. More Bloomsday action: Dovegreyreader on a new book called Ulysses and Us by Declan Kib...
Kindle Spotting
1. Okay, so I flip-flopped on the Kindle. I still dislike the high price, the DRM policy and the secrecy about sales numbers, but on the other hand Amazon appears to be showing conviction, focus and flexibility in the way they are evolving the prod...
Transformations (Notes on Music)
1. Some Internet memes are meant to last more than a day or two. Like everybody else, I watched the moving Susan Boyle performance on YouTube earlier this week, and then I watched it again and again. What makes this so special? The quality of her s...
Of The Farm
1. It’s amusing to learn that Faber and Faber editor T. S. Eliot rejected George Orwell’s Animal Farm, explaining to Orwell that he sided with the pigs. Since Eliot was a deeply committed political elitist, this position is at least cons...
Harold Pinter
No time for a real post today, but I’d like to say farewell to a LitKicks favorite, the bitter absurdist Harold Pinter, who has died at the age of 78. Here are a couple of previous pieces about Harold Pinter: Harold Pinter’s Bed and Brea...
A Bear, A Donkey, A Kangaroo, A Pig, A Tiger
One of my favorite spots in New York City has always been the Donnell Library on 53rd Street where Christopher Robin’s original most important five stuffed animals — a bear, a donkey, a kangaroo, a pig and a tiger — sit in a glass ...
Literary Trivia Smackdown and Other Things
1. I’m very excited to be competing with a team of litbloggers in a Literary Trivia Smackdown against four honorable representatives of PEN America this Sunday at 4 pm at the 21st Annual Indie Press and Small Books Fair in New York City. The ...
Reviewing the Review: November 23 2008
Please correct me if I’m missing something, but I’ve always considered V. S. Naipaul more of a monument than a writer. I make it a habit to ask friends and acquaintances what books they are excited about or which they consider lifelong f...
