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Video Killed The Radio Star
This is cool: “Rockit” Revisited. [Photo Credit: Sophie Bramly]
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New York Minute
Set it off. The Golden Age of Hip Hop on the Radio. [Photo Credit: Eve Arnold via Snowce]
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Slow Down
Head on over to The Paris Review and dig their Interview with the novelist T.C. Boyle: “We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can’t tell us what’s worth...
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The Great Outdoors
Dig this piece my friend Ben wrote for the Daily Beast: Many of Orwell’s books and his uniformly excellent essays feature, to one degree or another, passages extolling the quiet glories of nature:...
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BGS: The Writer as Detective Hero
Last weekend at the Beast, I had the pleasure to reprint Ross MacDonald’s 1965 essay for Show magazine, “The Writer As Detective Hero”. Dig in: A producer who last year was toying with the idea of...
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Blume in Love
I didn’t read Judy Blume when I was growing up but my twin sister sure did. I have a clear memory of her worn paperback covers for Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Tales of a Fourth Grade...
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The Art of Storytelling
The GZA drops science: I’m sure there are great lyricists out there today, but when you look at mainstream hip-hop, lyricism is gone. There are some artists out there that think they’re great...
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BGS: Enough With The Resurrections, Already!
Here’s a treat for you. From our pal Mark Jacobson comes a 1990 Esquire profile on Jackie Mason. Originally titled “Enough with the Resurrections, Already!” the story appears here with the author’s...
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Why Don’t We Do it in the Road?
Thanks to the essential weekly newsletter, The Sunday Long Read (compiled with taste and care by Don Van Natta Jr. and Jacob Feldman), I found Alex Bilmes’ excellent British Esquire interview with...
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New York Minute
Thought you couldn’t get enough of Joe Gould. Here’s a good piece by Jill Lepore in the week’s New Yorker. [Photo Credit: Culver Pictures]
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New York Minute
Nice chat with the Wood Man over at Vanity Fair: Sam Fragoso: You’re more prolific than most people. Woody Allen: But prolific is a thing that’s not a big deal. It’s not the quantity of the stuff you...
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Put it Through the S-950 then Stretch It
Never had a basement, never had an attic, only an apartment where I forever had static. Check out this terrific 2-part NPR interview with Extra P. [Photo Via: Mass Appeal]
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The Happy Recap
If you enjoy long non-fiction writing may I suggest The Sunday Long Read, a carefully-curated weekly newsletter by Don Van Natta and Jacob Feldman. Don’t sleep. The latest included a link to Scott...
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Ain’t it the Truth, Ain’t it the Truth?
I’ve been reading through Joy Ride, John Lahr’s recent anthology of theater criticism and personality profiles. In the introduction, he has this to say about his editor at The New Yorker, Deborah...
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Is it Real Or Is it Memorex?
Dig this excellent Vox piece by Dennis Perkins on the death of the video store (and you can substitute record store or even bookstore here): In the last days of the store, daily life at the store got...
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Bronx Banter Interview: To Live and Die in L.A.
Our pal John Schulian‘s first novel, A Better Goodbye, was published late last week. Looking for something pulpy and nasty, look no further friends. This noir will keep you entertained and turning the...
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Fulfillingness’ First Finale
Head on over to Rolling Stone and check out Brian Hiatt’s excellent look at Bowie’s final years. [Photo Via: Cos]
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