Jonathan Lethem Loves Ikea…
Wednesday, July 23rd by Shane
Real into the Squurg
At Guardian, authors try and boil literature down to one word. Nuruddin Farah says it’s “Identities” which is lame, and Adam Thirlwell says “Hedonism”, but Lethem says “Furniture”. He explains that whether it’s mentioned or not it fills out the reality of the novel, no matter how unrealistic it may be. He does a much better job of explaining it, and it’s the only one on there that’s really cool, so go read it.
The good news is it looks like in some form the brilliant Bat Segundo Show will return to the airwaves. The bad news is, is that in the interim Ed is starting to pick petty fights and lose his mind.
Dudes, The Dark Knight is so insanely awesome. Seriously.
There are many postings about the LATBR, but Scott’s is the best one so far.
And finally, my plan to read Anna Karenina on an Iphone has yet to really kick into high gear, but until that magnum opus begins, here is a guy talking a bunch of unsmack about the Iphone’s eReader. He actually quite enjoys it. I’m using Stanza, which is a different program, but it sounds like it’s pretty much the same thing, so yeah, he hated The Kindle and all the other garbage but loves this. Will I have the same opinion? Actually, I blew through ten of pages of 1984 last night with only one major complaint. Crap.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I have no idea what you are talking about. I only JUST started seeing the happy little pink bunnies gnawing upon my tender corpus. Thankfully, the skin cream seems to keep these cute carnivores away.
July 29th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
You had to throw a Dark Knight plug in their didn’t you? My god are you a NERD.