Yesterday, The New York Times published their always controversial, never comprehensive list of their picks for the 100 most “notable” books of 2012, chosen by the editors of the New York Times Book Review. We’ll save most of our quibbling for later, but we did notice one glaring omission — the space where… Read More
Michiko Kakutani
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Sons of Anarchy actor Johnny Lewis was found dead outside of a home in LA yesterday; police say that he “appeared to have died from some type of fall, either from the stairway, or from the balcony, or from one of the roofs.” Lewis is also considered a suspect in the murder of an… Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London today on a warrant for sexual assault charges filed by two women in Sweden. He will appear in court later today. Get live updates on the situation here. [via Gawker]
2. Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Kim Kardashian, and those other… Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. “In the end, Decoded leaves the reader with a keen appreciation of how rap artists have worked myriad variations on a series of familiar themes (hustling, partying and ‘the most familiar subject in the history of rap — why I’m dope’) by putting a street twist on an arsenal of traditional literary devices (hyperbole,… Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. After several delays, Universal has announced that Lil Wayne’s rock album Rebirth will drop on December 15th. [via MTV]
2. Michiko Kakutani reviews Vladimir Nabokov’s final unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. [via NYT]
3. Is Chia Obama racist scorn or sincere tribute? 77-year-old Chia Pet magnate Joseph Pedott (a… Read More
Ouch of the Day: NYT on T.C. Boyle
Michiko Kakutani calls Boyle’s new book
“a small, cheesy paint-by-numbers soap opera that manages to be pallid and gratuitously garish at the same time.”
Yikes!
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