May 23, 2012
My review for The Art of Fielding, over at Contrary Blog ->

My review for The Art of Fielding, over at Contrary Blog ->

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Filed under: The Art of Fielding Chad HArbach Lit Books Book review 
March 29, 2012
"She understood at the bone the willful transgression implicit in the literary enterprise—knew that to express oneself was to expose oneself, that to seize the stage was to court humiliation—and she accepted the risk. Every line she wrote suggested that moral courage required trusting one’s own experience in the world, one’s own intuitions about how it worked."

— Joan Didion on Elizabeth Hardwick. The New York Review.

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Filed under: Joan Didion Elizabeth Hardwick lit 
March 15, 2012
Patti! Be still my heart. She of the Mick Jagger haircut and riveting prose will be at Housing Works on March 27th to talk about “her writing process and the writer’s life” with author Glenn Kurtz. The event starts at 7PM. I’m camping out.

Patti! Be still my heart.

She of the Mick Jagger haircut and riveting prose will be at Housing Works on March 27th to talk about “her writing process and the writer’s life” with author Glenn Kurtz.

The event starts at 7PM. I’m camping out.

(Source: as-yet-untitled)

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Filed under: patti smith lit mcnally jackson housing works events just kids 
March 15, 2012
I’m currently trying to hang some artwork in my apartment, and it’s becoming abundantly clear that one wall - stark, gaping, and far too bare - is begging for a Harland Miller Penguin cover. Alas, I do not have a spare £1,680 laying around (if you do, and are feeling particularly generous, I’ll point you towards this piece at White Cube Gallery)…but I’m holding out for Exhibition A to issue something a tad more affordable. Miller began his career as a novelist and his abiding logophilia is evident throughout his body of work. Combining two of my favorite things ever - book jackets and tongue-in-cheek literary jabs - the pieces that first got me interested in the London-based artist riff off Penguin covers of the 50’s and 60’s. Miller has produced a couple of series of these paintings, one a set of clever odes to Britain’s damp, gray seaside towns (“Bridlington: Ninety Three Million Miles From The Sun”; “Yorkshire: It Was A Struggle When Times Were Good”), another an array of cheeky barbs aimed at literary greats (“D.H. Lawrence - Dirty Northern Bastard”; “Ernest Hemingway - Hard As Fuck”). Greedy bastard that I am (to borrow one of his favorite words), I want them all.

I’m currently trying to hang some artwork in my apartment, and it’s becoming abundantly clear that one wall - stark, gaping, and far too bare - is begging for a Harland Miller Penguin cover. Alas, I do not have a spare £1,680 laying around (if you do, and are feeling particularly generous, I’ll point you towards this piece at White Cube Gallery)…but I’m holding out for Exhibition A to issue something a tad more affordable.

Miller began his career as a novelist and his abiding logophilia is evident throughout his body of work. Combining two of my favorite things ever - book jackets and tongue-in-cheek literary jabs - the pieces that first got me interested in the London-based artist riff off Penguin covers of the 50’s and 60’s. Miller has produced a couple of series of these paintings, one a set of clever odes to Britain’s damp, gray seaside towns (“Bridlington: Ninety Three Million Miles From The Sun”; “Yorkshire: It Was A Struggle When Times Were Good”), another an array of cheeky barbs aimed at literary greats (“D.H. Lawrence - Dirty Northern Bastard”; “Ernest Hemingway - Hard As Fuck”).

Greedy bastard that I am (to borrow one of his favorite words), I want them all.

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Filed under: art books harland miller lit book covers 
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