This weekend, Brooklyn's Prospect Park hosts its second annual GoogaMooga food festival, and I am interviewing Michael Moss there tomorrow about his fascinating book, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us . For a chance at winning this book and a $100 Threadless gift certificate, share your favorite guilty pleasure food in a comment. Cheese is easily my foodstuff kryptonite, in any and all forms. One winner, chosen randomly from the commenters, will receive the following prizes: Michael Moss's book [...]
Spotify is now streaming the new Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories (out May 21st). The Guardian reviews the album. Urban Titan lists the top 25 horror novels for young adults. At the New Yorker , authors weigh in on the importance of likeability of characters in fiction. Two writers debate whether the Smiths [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Antlers : 2009-01-22, New York [mp3,ogg,flac] The Antlers: "Harvest Moon (Neil Young cover)" [mp3] Caitlin Rose : 2013-03-01, Manchester [mp3,ogg,flac] Caitlin Rose: "Dallas" [mp3] [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Set in China of the early 1900s, Virginia Pye's River of Dust is a haunting and vivid debut novel filled with [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family, and How We Learn to Eat is an impressive essay [...]
Author Caroline Leavitt interviews herself at The Nervous Breakdown . Read an excerpt from her new novel, Is This Tomorrow . PopMatters lists four remarkable 2013 black metal albums. The Rumpus profiles cartoonist Ariel Schrag . SPIN shares a glossary of terms used in Vampire Weekend songs. [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Norah Labiner's new novel Let the Dark Flower Blossom is intriguing and clever. Labiner proves herself yet again a master of [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Odd Duck , the new children's book written by Cecil Castellucci and illustrated by Sara Varon, is an instant classic that [...]
SPIN shares an oral history of the Breeders' 1993 Last Splash album. Talk of the Nation interviews Neil Gaiman about his new book, Make Good Art . On money as a motivator "Whenever I did something where the only reason for doing it was money — and this was a lesson that I learned beginning with being a 23-year-old author hired to write a book about Duran Duran — that whenever [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Goodly Beggars : free and legal Chew the Pages EP [mp3] Great Divide : free and legal Great Divide album [mp3] Hijo Del Rio [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Beach : "Ibuprofen" [mp3] Camera Obscura : "Fifth in LIne to the Throne" [mp3] from Desire Lines (out June 4th) Dead Stars : "Fractured" [mp3] from High Gain [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Norman Lock once again proves himself a master storyteller in his new collection, Love Among the Particles . These stories are brilliantly [...]
In the weekly Atomic Books Comics Preview , Benn Ray highlights notable new comics and graphic novels. Benn Ray is the owner of Atomic Books , an independent bookstore in Baltimore. The Mobtown Shank is his blog, and his comic Said What? is syndicated weekly in the Baltimore Sun's B-Paper. Atomic Books has been named one of Bizarre Magazine's 51 geekiest places on the planet , as well as one of Flavorwire's 10 greatest comic and graphic novel stores in America . [...]
In the Largehearted Word series, the staff of Brooklyn's WORD bookstore highlights several new books released this week. WORD is an independent neighborhood bookstore in Greenpoint, the northernmost neighborhood of Brooklyn, that recently celebrated its sixth anniversary. Our primary goal is to be whatever our community needs us to be, which currently means carrying a lot of paperback fiction (especially classics), cookbooks, board books, and absurdly cute cards and stationery. In addition, we're fiends for a good event, from the classic author reading and Q&A to potlucks and [...]
The Asahi Shimbun explores the process of publishing Haruki Murakami's new novel in English. Gabriel said Murakami approached him late last year about translating the work. He plans to complete the translation by the year-end, with publication expected in 2014. "It is a very realistic book, like 'Norwegian Wood'," Gabriel said in an e-mail interview. "To me, it seems more serious, even somber, compared to some of his other novels, but one ultimately that is hopeful." [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Ben Greenman's new novel The Slippage is a perceptive and eloquent depiction of suburbia and marriage. The Kansas [...]
Ms. Magazine interviews author Marge Piercy. iTunes is streaming the new Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories . The Cocktail Chart of Film and Literature poster lists famous drinks from books and movies, complete with recipes. iTunes is streaming the new album by the National, Trouble Will Find Me . [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Broken Twin : two tracks [mp3] Dawes and Shovels and Rope : free and legal Summer Tour Sampler EP [mp3] Hey Anna : free and legal [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Amanda Palmer : free and legal (name your price) Live with Amanda Palmer album [mp3] Blanche DuBois : "The War in Me" [mp3] from Young Heart [...]
Pitchfork gave Vampire Weekend's new album Modern Vampires of the City a 9.3, its highest rating of the year so far. Small Black's Limits of Desire , Dungeonesse's self-titled album , The Dillinger Escape Plan's One of Us Is the Killer , The Handsome Family's Wilderness , and Sam Amidon's Bright Sunny South are all albums I have heard and can recommend. The most intriguing album of the week, [...]
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Noteworthy (Stream): Kanye West – Black Skinhead (SNL Performance)
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Kanye West Performs “Black Skinhead” & “New Slaves” On ‘SNL’ Season Finale: Watch
Watch Kanye West on Saturday Night Live, performing “Black Skinhead” and “New Slaves”
