Stacey Levine's Mice 1961 reviewed by Alvin Lu in 3:AM Magazine
/A wonderful review—read it here
Interview with Stacey Levine in Seattle Magazine
/https://seattlemag.com/love-and-wisdom/finding-freedom/
Stacey Levine's MICE 1961 reviewed in the Washington Post
/Review by Lydia Millet
As I read Stacey Levine’s new novel Mice 1961 — which is not about small, intelligent rodents but about two young sisters and their live-in housekeeper — I laughed aloud many times. It was a startled, delighted laughter produced not by commonplace tricks of humor but something singular to Levine’s writing: a brilliant chemistry of alienation and familiarity I’ve never seen anywhere else.
Cracking open the novel, you may at first feel like a stranger in a strange land. But stick with it, because this is a rich and surprising country of curious hilarity, skewed lighting, awkward pratfalls and ludicrous conversations.
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Link to full review (paywalled) here; read free text version here
Hugh Raffles' THE BOOK OF UNCONFORMITIES wins the 2023 JJ Staley Prize
/The J.I. Staley Prize is awarded annually “to a living author for a book that exemplifies outstanding scholarship and writing in anthropology. The award recognizes innovative works that go beyond traditional frontiers and dominant schools of thought in anthropology and add new dimensions to our understanding of the human species.”
For the full story click here
Peter Doyle on "The Last Boogie Woogie"
/In the Sydney Review of Books, the author of The Big Whatever unearths the back story of two legendary lives in the Australian music business.
Pitchfork's 5 reasons to buy Robert Dean Lurie's BEGIN THE BEGIN
/https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/early-myths-about-rem-debunked-what-we-learned-from-new-biography-begin-the-begin/
Exclusive excerpt from BEGIN THE BEGIN: R.E.M.'S EARLY YEARS on Dangerous Minds
/Robert Dean Lurie's account of R.E.M.’s early years will be out in May, but meanwhile you can read an except here
John Dixon's Halloween thriller now a $2.99 ebook
/Read about it here
Correction and apology to Andrew Duffield
/in the first printing of David Nichols's book Dig: Australian Rock and Pop Music 1960-85 (Verse Chorus Press, 2016), the following passage on page 453, regarding the history of the band Models, contains a serious factual error:
“Exact details of the arrival and departure of band members at this time are hazy and probably unimportant. Duffield – who was by this time using heroin, apparently in response to, or at least in conjunction with, some personal tragedies – was in and out of the band for a while, but Freud was definitely in, and contributing.”
Author and publisher acknowledge that the claim of drug use on the part of Andrew Duffield is false, and apologize unreservedly for the error, which has been corrected in subsequent printings.
GREAT POP THINGS now available as ebook too!
/This unique comic-strip history of rock and roll, the brainchild of Colin B Morton and Chuck Death (aka the Mekons' Jon Langford), first came out in book form 20 years ago, and it's never stopped selling. Now we've finally released an ebook version. Check it out here
PETER DOYLE on the pleasures of pulp fiction
/You can read Peter Doyle's essay in The Conversation here
June Wright's THE DEVIL'S CARESS adapted for the stage in Sydney
/Factory Space Theatre Company present a dramatic version of June Wright's "The Devil's Caress," adapted for the stage by Wendy Lewis, with 8 performances from Saturday 24 March through Saturday 14 April. Star of the Sea Theatre is located near the northern end of Manly Beach at Queenscliff, on the corner of Collingwood St and Iluka Ave. Parking is available at the northern end of the beach or in the surrounding streets. More details at http://www.factoryspace.org/