Friday Links to Stuff
This is the groovy court yard of the Community Bookstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I didn’t fall in the pond. But I wanted to. It’s a great little neighborhood bookstore with a cat, a sleeping dog, and a lizard. While I was there on Saturday, I picked up a copy of the new Jonathan Lethem novel Chronic City. On Monday Michiko Kakutani savaged the book in the New York Times. Michiko, why do you hate me?
BGB contributor Russ Marshalek, the hardest working man in books, has a new blog about music and writing and writing about music called Soldout. Someone once said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. If you think that guy should shut up and go hang out with Michiko, check out Russ’s new blog.
Speaking of friends and blogs, a friend of BGB friend Rich is blogging a novel called Run and Shoot. It’s a pretty cool idea. The book is about a murder on the campus of a southern football powerhouse Deep South University. Each Saturday, college game day, Jay Busbee releases a new chapter in the story. (Prediction: DSU goes loses badly on Nov. 30)
The New Yorker notices a disturbing trend in kiddy picture books.
Chuck Klosterman talks to the Washington Post about transcendent interviews.
A new blog Reading Radar constructs mashups of the current NYT bestsellers and Amazon reviews of the listed books. It’s an interesting perspective. Everyone who reads the Glenn Beck book apparently loves it.
Today the Where the Wild Things Are movie is finally comes. The next children’s book movie that we’re waiting for is Oliver Jeffers’s Lost and Found (currently unavailable on Amazon!) – a favorite of my five year old and her parents. IMDB says it is an animated short (2008) that aired in the UK. When do we get to see it?:
October 16, 2009 8:14 am 2 Comments
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By Anne, October 16, 2009 @ 9:59 pm
I’m also waiting for Fantastic Mr. Fox.
By kelly, October 18, 2009 @ 10:23 pm
That New Yorker article makes you think, doesn’t it? And it makes me feel better about sending Joseph to his room yesterday while saying “cut out the hysterics”…