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Old Friends
by Levi Asher on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 07:45 pm
1. What on earth are these little kids doing on this "Kiddie-A-Go-Go" 1967 TV show? Is it the Pony? The Frug, the Watusi, the Mashed Potato, the Alligator? It's pretty cute and weird, whatever they're doing.
2. Friend of LitKicks (FOL) Tim Barrus at Electric Literature! What a combination.
Reviewing the Review: December 20 2009
by Levi Asher on Saturday, December 19, 2009 01:14 pm
This weekend's New York Times Book Review tries a fun musical experiment, inviting singers Suzanne Vega and Nellie McKay to review two Beatle books, respectively, Paul McCartney: A Life by Peter Ames Carlin and John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman.
Rushing the Review: September 27 2009
by Levi Asher on Sunday, September 27, 2009 11:43 am
Folks, I'm rushing around and there's no time for a real Reviewing the Review today. A couple of highlights, though, from today's New York Times Book Review.
Relics
by Levi Asher on Monday, September 21, 2009 06:14 pm
1. Catholic boy to the end ... from Cassie Carter's long-running fan site, here's Jim Carroll's funeral card.
Sweet Tastes
by Levi Asher on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:43 am
Two authors whose previous novels were celebrated by the now-defunct Litblog Co-op have outdone themselves with their next books. I've read galleys of both Katharine Weber's True Confections and Sam Savage's The Cry of the Sloth and I'm happy to report that readers have a lot to look forward to in both cases.
Modernism: Picasso, Helvetica, Chairman Mao and the Who
by Levi Asher on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:09 pm
I enjoyed the response to Monday's article about the words "modernism" and "postmodernism" as they are used in the separate fields of architecture and literature. Serendipitously, a tangentially related article has now drifted my way, an illustrated piece by Joseph Clarke about modern architecture in religion and business.
The Blog and Turfs
by Levi Asher on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 02:49 pm
1. How delightful to learn that James Joyce may have invented the word 'blog' during a typical conversational ramble in Finnegans Wake! Here it is in context:
Comix For Bloomsday
by Levi Asher on Monday, June 15, 2009 11:17 pm
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 Kibberd.
Reviewing the Review: May 24 2009
by Jamelah Earle on Sunday, May 24, 2009 09:13 am
(Our guest reviewer today is Jamelah Earle, who lives in Michigan and can often be found at Jamelah.net -- Levi)
First up, we have David Brooks on Simon Schama's The American Future: A History. Brooks spends several paragraphs on how he has a thing for Brilliant Books. These Brilliant Books are about America and are "written by a big thinker who comes to capture the American spirit while armed only with his own brilliance." It’s like this:
The Volcano Pilgrim
by Levi Asher on Monday, May 11, 2009 06:18 pm
1. Japanese search parties have found the remains of poet and volcano enthusiast Craig Arnold, who had been running a blog called The Volcano Pilgrim. Jacket Copy's piece on Craig's death is the best of many I've read.
