Noma Bar Meets Haruki Murakami
For Haruki Murakami’s 2017 Assassinio del Commendatore Noma Bar created these lovely graphic illustrations in his inimitable style.
Literature
Quarantine by Eavan Boland
RIP April 27th, 2020
Without any doubt Eavan Boland had been my favorite living Irish poet. Her poetry embodied the essence of Irishness, Ireland’s tragic and melancholic history, with it’s lovelorn and forelorn. I have posted two of her poems on puppies and flowers before: Amber and The Lost Land. This piece is a […]
Hunter S. Thompson’s brutally honest Canadian job request letter
Thompson’s letter is among hundreds — to friends, family, lovers, editors and debt collectors — published in The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (Ballantine, 1997). TO JACK SCOTT, VANCOUVER SUN October 1, 1958 57 Perry Street New York City Sir, I got a hell of […]
Six word stories and one sentence stories.
Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” —and is said to have called it his best work. Wired Magazine asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves: Computer, did we […]
Question and answer time with Chuck Palahniuk
Q: Can someone be a brilliant artist without being seriously fucked-up? Can someone be a brilliant artist and be completely sane and well-adjusted? Can the sane and good create art that is meaningful and not simply bland or pretty to look at? —Isaiah Technician CP: Here’s my theory: Anyone who […]
Life Imitating Art
Life Imitating Art — Chuck Palahniuk style… Man sentenced for faking seizures at restaurants A Baltimore man has been sentenced to a year and a half in jail for faking seizures to get out of paying restaurant bills. City prosecutors said 43-year-old Andrew Palmer pleaded guilty last week to one […]
J.D. Salinger RIP
From AP: NEW YORK (AP) — J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose “The Catcher in the Rye” shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91. Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author’s son, actor […]
Haruki Murakami Book Covers
Haruki Murakami at Cal Performances Oct 11, 2008. Link to Cal Performances website. Click here to see more Murakami book covers by John Gall and Chip Kidd.
Henry Miller remembers New York.
Henry Miller remembers New York. Straight out of The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. Some of the related links on YouTube are interesting too.