Articles written by authors, guests and the 33 1/3 team.
In an uncanny confluence of events, this Friday’s “Late Show with David Letterman” will feature not one, but two Continuum-linked guests. First, and most importantly for this blog, Bill Janovitz, who wrote our excellent Exile on Main St. book for the series, will be performing on the show with his band Buffalo Tom – their […]
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DOUBLE AUTHORS IN THE KEY OF METROMike Fournier (Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime) and Zeth Lundy (Stevie Wonder’s Songs In the Key of Life) were recently given the 5-questions treatment in the Boston Metro. Good stuff. Here’s Zeth’s interview, and here’s Mike’s. Updating a previous post, you can stream Mike Fournier’s interview on WPRB
Phil Freeman’s brand new edited collection Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs is in stores now, from Da Capo. It’s a follow-up to 1978’s Greil Marcus compendium Stranded, and includes essays from a few 33 1/3 authors, past present and future, as well as many other fine folks. Here’s the copy from the
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Next up in our neverending procession of overachieving alumni is Douglas Wolk, author of the James Brown 33 1/3 book that came out in August 2004. Douglas’ brand new book is Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, just published by Da Capo. Largehearted Boy has a “Book Notes” feature on Reading
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Exciting news from Pernice-ville today, for those of you who enjoyed our Meat Is Murder book. Here’s the official Press Release: JOE PERNICE SIGNS DEAL WITH RIVERHEAD BOOKS, A DIVISION OF PENGUIN BOOKS USA, TO WRITE FICTION Joe Pernice has signed a book deal with Megan Lynch of Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Books
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In stores now, with its fetchingly monotone cover, is Kate Schatz’s story inspired by Rid of Me. We got some nice blurbs for this one, including one from Erin Cressida Wilson, who wrote the screenplay for the movie Secretary, from Mary Gaitskill’s story: “I’d like to slip this between a few books that I read
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Mike Fournier hits the west coast tomorrow night at Bird & Beckett in San Francisco, and will be headed back to the east coast next week. He’ll also be interviewed on WPRB next Wednesday (7/18) at 7pm EST on Jon Solomon’s show. For now you’ll have to tune in live to hear it, but I’ll
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Ahh – the end of the financial year here at Continuum HQ, and the start of the next one. Always a time for much head-scratching, back-scratching, and other forms of scratching both celebratory and punitive. It’s a good time to take stock of how the 33 1/3 series is ticking along, so here is the
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Last weekend saw an article on the series by Scott R. Garceau, on the Philstar website, a portal for the global Filipino community. Thanks to Steve Matteo for spotting this one! *** Third helpings THE X-PAT FILES By Scott R. Garceau Sunday, July 01 2007 (www.philstar.com) Maybe we all live life at too high a
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A couple of things for the start of the week. 1. There’s an excellent little interview with David Mitchell in the online edition of the The Hindu, in which Mitchell (yet again) transmits his secret, unspoken, one might even say unknown desire to write a volume for the 33 1/3 series: *** David, what would
