If you are not interested in literary fiction, there is no reason to care about this.
If you are intersted in literary fiction, there is no reason to care about this.

Arli$$ meets something else that's not Arli$$.

I don't think that's Udo Kier's O-Face, I think that's just his resting face.

I dunno. I like Murakami's stuff, but I don't know if I'd put him at the top of the list. And I think he should lose points for 1Q84, which I thought was a real step down.

I'm'a let you finish, but Javier Marias really deserved to win this Nobel.  Your Face Tomorrow, bitches!
*drops mic*

Maybe people are thinking Oates will win for sheer quantity of work.

Murakami has been pegged as the winner of the Nobel for years now, but still hasn't won.  Ladbroke (who actually runs odds as to who will win) is, as usual, wrong.

Aw, Jesus.  That's so terrible I have to like it.

Oh Bondage! Up Yours!

It's about a play, so it goes without saying that the target audience is old people.

something something taxes something….

Presumably you walked out of Citizen Kane after about 3 minutes.

Well, sure, but which bald guy?

@avclub-236e42b5af241c85d97910f5c1aa6107:disqus Figuratively and literally.

@avclub-6956968b560a7eb499ca03a8b3b43189:disqus, that score by David Shire is incredible, and became the template for a lot of 70s era thrillers and cop shows.  I always loved the soundtracks for Quinn Martin stuff, and this right here is the source.  It's 12-tone funk,

I've actually read Mozart in the Jungle, and it's pretty entertaining, if super inside baseball.  The passages where she talks about the obsessive work involved in sanding and clipping oboe reeds will make for some gripping TV.

I think the Singles collection is a great introduction, too, as it's got a little taste from many of his incarnations, including some of his work as a sideman for R&B bands.

That's all good, but you've got to have Atlantis in there, even if the title track is one of those noisy, daunting pieces of his.

"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or-
For fuck's sake, Guildenstern, get off my junk!"

I just read the whole thing a couple of weeks ago.  (I had read segments of it in Eightball, years ago, but never read the whole sequence).  It is quite good, though less of a single story than the film.