Lee Seigel: the novel is dead. Robert McCrum: no, it’s not. * A review of Dennis Cooper‘s Smothered in Hugs. * The Indie on a fresh breed of literary magazines. * Lou Reed booed. * No London underground? * Happy birthday to Nikola Tesla. * Mad Men costume designer launches his own line, called Mod. * Lost London. * Lost London pubs. * John le Carr é witnesses the spy exchange. * Lee Rourke‘s “Book Notes” for The Canal. * An interview with Chris Killen. * Rejection letters. * Alt/1977. * On a similar note: Darth Vader painted by Monet. * Nick Cave‘s Bunny Munro to be turned into a TV movie. * Justin Taylor interviewed in Bookslut. * Joe Jackson on the smoking ban. * Tao Lin reviewed. * The Alt-Jews of NYC. * The return of Devo. * The search for Hitchcock’s lost film. * The search for Edward Hopper‘s Nighthawks diner: “It seems the longer you live in New York, the more you love a city that has vanished. For those of us well versed in the art of loving what is lost, it’s an easy leap to missing something that was never really there” (via). * Ben Greenman‘s excellent What He’s Poised to Do reviewed.
