Morning Dump: Mr. Romance, Balanced book reading, Welcome to Lagos,
Posted on 28. Aug, 2010 by theashcan in Morning Dump
- Are New York Times book reviewers biased towards white dudes from Brooklyn? When was the last time you read a book by a female author? Do you get the hype around Jonathan Franzen? I’m crazy tired so sorry about the lazy rhetoricals. But yeah, Chris Jackson wrote something about some such and I dug it somewhat. I can’t totally relate (two of the last good books I read were by women), and I get the feeling this debate as it’s played out on the interwebs is a New York conversation, but dude makes a good point about looking at our reading patterns and asking ourselves what we’re missing out on. -jc
- In 2009 Dave Eggers and co. launched their experimental one time newspaper, the San Francisco Panorama, and the things was massive. So massive in fact that I only got around to reading a long form feature on the annual Mr. Romance contest held each year to determine who will grace the cover of those oh so trashy romance novels yesterday. While the whole article isn’t online, you can get a good taste of it on the author’s blog, here. Then try to track down a Panorama for years of good reading.-jkg
- Not spending the last weekend of the summer outside in the sun? Hungover? Watch this Youtube-housed, totally engrossing BBC documentary about Nigeria, Welcome To Lagos. It’s in a bajillion parts and long as hell, but totally worth it, even if you’re not too sure about the message behind it. And what else are you going to watch? Another Friends marathon? -am
- Taken a gander at @kanyewest yet? The Village Voice thinks West’s continued personal media assault is killing music magazines. #justsayin -am
- It’s officially soon enough to host a 90′s party. Plaid is cool again, 20-somethings are angsty and Soundgarden are back together. Sure, their new single debuts in Guitar Hero 6 and Chris Cornell is on the wrong side of 40, but this Spin profile manages to remind us of one thing: grunge is for young people *and* geezers trying to reclaim their youth. Remind me again how our generation is nothing like the one before us?
Jef
Aug 29th, 2010
Haha this dump is such a format fail, but the picture of that dude makes it totally golden. Literally even!