Rob Walker's Blog, page 17
July 10, 2010
Author Updates
1) Wesley Stace's third novel, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, was published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on July 1st. It will be published in the USA by Picador on February 2011.
2) Sam Means and Elliott Kalan are publishing a new blog, OldTimeyJokes. Means explains: "We found a real joke book from 1902, Conundrums New and Old, and we've taken it upon ourselves to annotate it joke by joke, explaining both the humor and the historical context of every riddle, puzzle, and gag...
July 9, 2010
Critique of Significant Reason
At the Guardian's books blog, Alix Rayner runs Significant Objects through Kantian Critique of Judgment filter before deciding that what we're doing is perfectly OK. Excerpt:
Ad man turned novelist F Scott Fitzgerald declaimed advertising as having contributed "exactly minus zero" to human endeavour around the same time Ernest Hemingway is supposed, perhaps apocryphally, to have penned a six-word short story in the form of a small ad: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Dorothy L Sayers, Fay...
July 8, 2010
Significant Anachronisms
It had to happen eventually.
In September 2009, I noticed that a modern smartphone or PDA of some sort had somehow ended up in a photo on the cover of the 1960 French edition of Chester Himes' Imbroglio negro (All Shot Up). So I posted my discovery to HiLobrow.
After that, without even looking for them, I found anachronistic smartphones/PDAs in two pre-1950s films — Otto Preminger's Laura (1944) and Frank Capra's Platinum Blonde (1931).
My discovery of these time-traveling devices has...
July 6, 2010
Epistolary Week Significant Objects In Their New Homes
Napkin Ring + James Hannaham Story. Click to read the story.
Above, and after the jump, the latest additions to our Significant Objects Owners Photo Pool: Two from the recent Epistolary Week series.
Heart-Shaped Candle + Terese Svoboda Story. Click to read the story.
July 4, 2010
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-07-04
July 3, 2010
Author Updates
1) Dean Haspiel's latest comic, The Angel, is currently featured in South Brooklyn's OVERFLOW magazine. You can also see it online at ACT-I-VATE.
2) Matthew Sharpe will be reading in New York with Arthur Nersesian on July 8 & 9 to celebrate the publication of Nersesian's novel MESOPOTAMIA. Details:
Thursday, July 8
Barnes & Noble Tribeca
97 Warren St., NYC
7:00 p.m.
Friday, July 9
Spoonbill & Sugartown
218 Bedford St. (btw. N. 4th & N. 5th)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
7:30 p.m.
3) Neil LaBute's...
July 1, 2010
Author Updates
Silent March from Ciné Institute on Vimeo.
1) Annie Nocenti spent four months in Haiti, just after the 2010 earthquake, producing films, reportage, short docs, and a feature documentary — with her students at the Cine Institute in Jacmel. She wrote a short Typhoid Mary comic story for Marvel's Girl Comics (illustrated by Molly Crabapple), and a short prose story for Daredevil Black & White (illustrated by David Aja). She's written for HiLobrow about Jorgen Leth, Maya Deren, Nicholas Ray and ...
June 29, 2010
Author Updates
1) Doug Dorst's short story collection, The Surf Guru, is coming out on July 15 (Riverhead). It's the July selection for The Rumpus Book Club, brainchild of SO contributor Stephen Elliott. Dorst will be doing some West Coast readings in July and August.
2) If this is summertime, then Gabe Levinson must be riding a custom-built tricycle stocked with 200 lbs of free books from independent publishers (and purchased from independent booksellers) around Chicago public parks.
3) Stacey Levine's...
