(by paula scher at nytimes.com)
follow the link for a lovely essay on the evolution of narcissistic, aggressive, sexual masculinity in great male authors’ prose.
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Posts Tagged ‘dave eggers’
too twee for their own good
Posted in books, tagged dave eggers, david foster wallace, philip roth, portnoy's complaint, the new york times on March 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »
festo’s book club
Posted in books, tagged charles bukowski, chuck palahniuk, dave eggers, david foster wallace, jack kerouac, jorge luis borges, michael pollan, milan kundera, ram dass, tom wolfe on March 5, 2009| Leave a Comment »
these are some books we’ve read in the past year or so that have made an impression on us. all titles on the list guarantee many hours of delectable literary enjoyment. some of them are lifeeee chaaaanging. oprah shmoprah; here are our recommendations.
a supposedly fun thing i’ll never do again by david foster wallace
the dharma bums by jack kerouac
the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera
what is the what by dave eggers
the electric kool-aid acid test by tom wolfe
be here now by ram dass
the omnivore’s dilemma by michael pollan
rant by chuck palahniuk
ham on rye by charles bukowski
the book of imaginary beings by jorge luis borges
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see you at taco bell
Posted in art, shopping, tagged 20x200, allan kaprow, college, dave eggers, giraffes, hannuka, interior decorating, jason polan, new york, performance art, taco bell, wikipedia, yoko ono on November 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »
i moved into a new apartment this past summer, and my roommate and i were determined to decorate it in a (thrifty) fashion that would not shout “COLLEGECOLLEGECOLLEGE” from the rooftops. ergo, no magazine cut-outs on the walls. ergo, i was fresh out of interior decorating experience. but THEN i discovered 20×200, a website whose mission is to sell very excellent art at a wide range of prices, starting off at $20 (for a smallish version of a photo or print or drawing, produced in an edition of 200) and topping off at $2000 (for a large version of said photo or print or drawing, with only 2 reproductions). we have a theory that, once you start your art collection, you have taken the first step on the path to genuine adulthood (whether you are 15 or 40, dear reader, we really don’t think you’re a real live adult if your walls are art-less; posters of van gogh paintings, no matter how mind bogglingly wonderful the originals may be, do not count) and this is a fantastic way to buy actual, original art at ridiculously reasonable prices. you will be cultured and sophisticated, and your friends will be jealous.
while trolling the site for nifty things to purchase, we came across jason polan, an artist living in new york. here are some things we like about mr. polan: his current project is an ongoing mission to draw every person in new york (see yoko ono, below); he is a member of the taco bell drawing club; we think he knows dave eggers; he made this bag, which i would totally ask for for hannuka if i didn’t feel too guilty to ask anyone for presents this year; he draws many giraffes; he is rather funny; there is no wikipedia article about him, lending him an exciting air of mystery.
one of the things he is selling on 20×200 is called “hand project”: for $20 he’ll send you one out of 200 photocopies of his hand, for $200 he’ll send you a drawing of his hand (“it is always available and i can mold it into different positions”), and for a mere $2000, he will come to your house and shake your hand. allan kaprow would be so proud.
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