Transgressive
Little Known Literary Facts
by Levi Asher on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 09:28 am
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.
Jingle This: Five True-Crime Masterpieces For Your Holiday Wish List
by Garrett Kenyon on Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:31 pm
New Books: Geoff Parsons, Two Lines, George Wallace, J. J. Deceglie
by Levi Asher on Monday, November 2, 2009 08:15 pm
Four new books I'm happy to recommend to you:
Unwanted Hopeless Romantic Morons by Geoffrey Alexander Parsons
Unwanted Hopeless Romantic Morons by Geoffrey Alexander Parsons
Nick Cave's The Death of Bunny Munro
by Meg Wise_Lawrence on Monday, September 28, 2009 05:20 pm
(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.)
Mikael's Picks
by Mikael Covey on Friday, September 4, 2009 11:31 am
(LitKicks friend Mikael Covey tells us about three things he likes, two books and one play.)
The Suburban Swindle by Jackie Corley
Reviewing the Review: August 23 2009
by Levi Asher on Saturday, August 22, 2009 11:17 pm
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.
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
by Eric Rosenfield on Monday, April 6, 2009 06:15 pm
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.
