Todd Taylor was giving me notes on my cat stories manuscript when this visitor appeared. #cats #cornelius (at Razorcake HQ)
Category Archives: Books
Hex Dispensers III
Battleship in Prospect Park
Some great photos in this fascinating article about the U.S. Navy’s replica battleship in Prospect Park.
Chairman of the Board.
Katherine Taylor with Matthew Specktor. (at Skylight Books)
Kill all hoomans. #cats (at Space 4 Art)
For the later scenes featuring an older Kane, Orson Welles sat in the make-up chair from 2:30 am to be ready for a 9:00 am start.
Citizen Kane (1941)
Feel the Love
I really enjoyed Loving Day, the new novel from Mat Johnson. It might be the most frank and open consideration of race I’ve encountered since Norman Mailer’s The Fight. I realize that’s a deeply weird comparison, especially since Loving Day is so relentlessly comic, but there’s something really admirable about the author’s determination to write about blackness and whiteness in contemporary America in a way that’s genuinely funny, particularly since it’s a conversation so many are strenuously avoiding. If this is your kind of conversation, check out my review in the Los Angeles Times.
TFL #57
The Floating Library tunes into Daniel Manoney’s Sunblind Almost Motorcrash by Spork Preess:
If you love music, but the prospect of reading a collection of record reviews strikes you as a less-than-thrilling use of your time, Daniel Mahoney just might make you reconsider.
His new book Sunblind Almost Motorcrash, published by Spork Press, collects a series of imaginary record reviews by bands that don’t exist. (If this review was in an audio format, you’d hear the sound of a needle scratching a record here.) That’s right: the songs, records, bands—even the record labels—are all products of Mahoney’s prodigious imagination.
