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Little Known Literary Facts

by Levi Asher on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 09:28 am
Beat Generation, Classics, Eastern European, Fiction, Kid Lit, News, Southern, Television, Transgressive, Tributes

1, A font face captures Franz Kafka's handwriting, which turns out be rather pretty in a Kafkaesque sort of way.

2. Tablet Magazine interviews eternal Fug Tuli Kupferberg and points us to his excellent YouTube Channel. I love the audience participation in this little-known literary facts video, in which Tuli reveals that T. S. Eliot was Jewish, that Walt Whitman was heterosexual, that Homer's Iliad was actually written by a guy named Iliad, and that when Dylan Thomas drank himself to death his drink of choice was strawberry milkshakes. All true.

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Jingle This: Five True-Crime Masterpieces For Your Holiday Wish List

by Garrett Kenyon on Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:31 pm
Classics, Lists, Mystery, Transgressive


(Once again, a word from our crime/noir genre specialist Garrett Kenyon. -- Levi)
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New Books: Geoff Parsons, Two Lines, George Wallace, J. J. Deceglie

by Levi Asher on Monday, November 2, 2009 08:15 pm
Being A Writer, Fiction, Indie, Poetry, Poker, Transgressive
Four new books I'm happy to recommend to you:



Unwanted Hopeless Romantic Morons by Geoffrey Alexander Parsons
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Nick Cave's The Death of Bunny Munro

by Meg Wise_Lawrence on Monday, September 28, 2009 05:20 pm
Fiction, Music, Postmodernism, Reviews, Transgressive


(Meg Wise-Lawrence has previously written about the Pre-Raphaelite and British Romantic literary scenes on LitKicks, and currently teaches English at Hunter College in New York City.)
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Jim Carroll: People Who Died

by Levi Asher on Sunday, September 13, 2009 09:32 pm
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Mikael's Picks

by Mikael Covey on Friday, September 4, 2009 11:31 am
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(LitKicks friend Mikael Covey tells us about three things he likes, two books and one play.)

The Suburban Swindle by Jackie Corley
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Reviewing the Review: August 23 2009

by Levi Asher on Saturday, August 22, 2009 11:17 pm
Economics, New York Times Book Review, Transgressive
I return from a three week break to find a New York Times Book Review I can really dig into. You know, my friends and I beat up this publication often, but sometimes I just have to admit that they do a pretty good job -- at a fast pace, and probably on an endangered budget. So, I'll offer nothing but appreciation today.
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Sorrow and the Mob

by Jamelah Earle on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 09:29 pm
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Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
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Indian Food for Breakfast

by Levi Asher on Monday, April 20, 2009 10:31 am
Africa, Eastern, French, Internet Culture, Love, Transgressive, Tributes

1. Author J. G. Ballard has died.
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

by Eric Rosenfield on Monday, April 6, 2009 06:15 pm
Fiction, Internet Culture, Kid Lit, Politics, Reviews, Transgressive

One thing you have to say for Little Brother, Cory Doctorow's recent book for young adults (now nominated for the Hugo Award for best novel): it's ambitious. It is an adventure story about teenage terrorism that's also a screed on the importance and meaning of the right to privacy and a guide to bad government practices and how to fight them, a novel made manifesto and handbook.
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