Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web:
Excerpt from Bob Dylan Revisted, 13 artists re-imagine Dylan’s songs as graphic-novel style illustrations (Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Lorenzo Mattotti)
& Wilco are running a haiku contest on Twitter
& Bloody hell: “[Jonatahn Safron Foer's] soaring words put cruel and negative Jewish writers like Gary Shteyngart, Sam Lipsyte & Michael Chabon to shame.” (via @drmabuse)
& Maud Newton on Theodora Keogh, novelist, ballet dancer, wildcat owner, chicken farmer & president’s granddaughter
& Classic word spaces: Vladimir Nabokov (& Nabokov Day)
& Nude Magazine, beyond the counter-culture, now an online mag
& FaceOut Books share some Alvin Lusting covers (Sartre, Gertrude Stein, Kafka, Rimbaud, Paul Bowles, James Joyce) (via @roundmyskull)
& “It’s funny how publishers convey to their readership how tedious and non-pleasurable a book will be based on the lack of color on the cover.” HTMLGIANT judge a book by its cover
& Words, images & playing games, 3QD on Sophie Calle & John Baldessari
& Bauhaus at MoMA
& “Unfriend,” OUP word of the year & others (though “teabagger” - “a person, who protests President Obama’s tax policies” means something much different round these parts)
[Image: Mykl Roventine]
First posted: Wednesday, November 18th, 2009.
