A post on New York mag’s Vulture blog pointed us in the direction of this recent interview with Stephen Malkmus (of Pavement, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, etc.) in Spin in… Read more »

Turns out they have some pretty interesting acoustic and tonal qualities, too. Happy Wednesday. (Via Galleycat.)

New York rock star and icon of 80s- and 90s-era “alternative music” Suzanne Vega has written a play about Carson McCullers that’s about to go up in New York. “I… Read more »

Yesterday David Ulin reminded us why we love Texas. Which is nice, since some other people have been working hard to make us forget we loved it in the first… Read more »

Yony Leyser’s new documentary on William Burroughs aired on PBS this Tuesday. Carolyn Kellogg has more about the unlikely project. One striking thing about the trailer (below) is the sheer… Read more »

I was in Other Music the other night behind a dude of about my age who was buying The Secret Dub Life of the Flying Lizards, a group from my… Read more »

In case you missed it, The Los Angeles Times last week carried a rave review of How To Wreck A Nice Beach and an interview with its author, Dave Tompkins.… Read more »

In 1993 I worked as the assistant manager of the Classic Bookshop on the concourse of the World Trade Center. Several weeks after the February 26th bombing, after we had… 6 / Read more »

Today is the birthday of Australian poet Banjo Paterson. Born Andrew Barton Paterson this day in 1865 in Narrambla, in New South Wales. “Banjo” became Australia’s best-loved “bush” poet. At… Read more »

Ian McEwan is branching out. Not content with receiving innumerable plaudits for his novels, he has turned his attention to the libretto. For You, written with the composer Michael Berkeley,… Read more »