Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Richard Price, Lush Life, Clockers on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
In Old Town Square, in Prague, there’s this phenomenally ornate and gorgeous clock, and the story I’ve heard about it is this: the king found the best clockmaker in the world at the time (or in Bohemia), had him build the clock. On the day the clock debuted, the clock maker and the king both [...]
Posted in Music Reviews, tagged El Perro Del Mar on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
This interview was originally done over email like 2 years ago, or at least a year and a half, but the magazine it originally ran in was both small and based exclusively in the midwest, and so it seemed like a good idea to put it up somewhere more lasting and public.El Perro Del Mar [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Bill McKibben, David Treuer, The Translation of Dr. Apelles, Steven Millhauser, Dangerous Laughter on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
The Translation of Dr. Apelles by David Treuer
The Translation of Dr. Apelles is just fucking ridiculously good. David Treuer is a fucking genius. This has to be one of the best paperback book released this year (and, no shit, it was released last year as a hardcover by who? Guess.)
Seriously, have you read this book? This [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Michael Hodges, AK47, MacAdam/Cage on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Michael Hodges’ AK47: The Story of a Gun is brutally fascinating reading. It’s relatively slight in length—it’s just over 200 pages but actually feels shorter than that (in a good way)—but the scope of the story, spanning from 1947 to the present, from the USSR to Afghanistan to New Orleans, is pretty monumental.
Hodges’ background, according [...]
Posted in Music Reviews, tagged Caitlin Cary, Kelly Willis, M Ward, Zooey Deschanel on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
M Ward and Zooey Deschanel’s project She and Him: Volume 1 is coming out soon from Merge and the track that’s already leaked everywhere, “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here,” is a perfect example of the strengths of this pairing. It’s an instantly hummable song, something that sticks in your head about as quickly [...]
